I approached this young man and simply asked, “How are you?” Last week, I illegally parked my car on University Avenue to run in to the Ministry of Business, and when I came outside, there was a Parking Officer starting to write a ticket. I know that the City has a budget and they need revenues to pay for their various expenditures, so I’m not surprised that they have a small army of faux-cops out on the streets writing tickets.īut that hasn’t stopped me from fighting this process for the past five years.Īnd you know what? It’s one of the easiest battles I’ve ever had. I’m not a naive person by any stretch of the imagination, and I understand that the City of Toronto needs to pay its bills. Ever since they got those new-and-improved hand-held devices that electronically input the data and print out a ticket, Parking Officers have probably doubled the amount of tickets they write. This “Parking Officer” is writing out a ticket with a pen and paper. Well I think there is a third season one that is twelve-months long: parking tickets.īut there is a new website out there that helps us stick it to the man! Visit See this photo above? You know that old adage about Toronto? The one that goes, “There are two seasons in Toronto: Winter, and Construction.”
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