03-04-2020, 10:57 AM
(03-03-2020, 06:06 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(03-03-2020, 02:32 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I'm not saying that bylaw doesn't very occasionally ticket vehicles parked in the bike lanes, but Bylaw can only ticket when it is also a no parking zone (and the ticket is a parking ticket), but parking in a bike lane is also a HTA charge, which bylaw cannot issue, only WRPS can, and I suspect it probably hasn't ever done so before.
Shouldn’t all places with bike lanes be not just no parking zones, but actually no stopping? Unless there is a separate parking lane as well, either between the motor vehicle lanes and the bike lane or between the bike lane and the curb.
How is one supposed to stop or park if there is a bike lane there?
Also, related question, what would the offence be if one stopped or parked right in the middle of the road? Also something Bylaw can’t address? There shouldn’t really be any such thing as “[…] in a bike lane”; it should just be “[…]”, with no difference between doing it in a bike lane and doing it in a motor vehicle lane (the only exception being driving in a bike lane, which is illegal for motor vehicles but the same action is perfectly legal done in a motor vehicle lane).
It is city policy to make all bike lanes "no parking zones" for the purposes of enforcing the bike lanes. As for "no stopping" zones, they don't go that far, and part of that is the HTA, which does allow buses to use the bike lanes for embarking/disembarking passengers, part of that is simply that none of the cities will enforce against stopping in the bike lane of delivery vehicles or taxis.
As for "how is one supposed to park"...they aren't, it's always illegal, which is why a "no parking" zone is superfluous or at least, implicit. But that is a HTA charge, so the city's bylaw cannot enforce it, to allow bylaw to enforce it, the bike lane must be additionally marked explicitly as "no parking". At least this is the excuse they gave me for refusing to enforce the bike lane on Glasgow for a year.
I don't think bylaw could charge you with stopping in the middle of the road either. But WRPS could, and definitely would...kind of the point. The charge would probably be similar to what this was "impeding traffic"...