{"id":16292,"date":"2015-02-18T21:54:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T02:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=16292"},"modified":"2015-02-18T21:54:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T02:54:07","slug":"intelligent-parking-praised-by-boroughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/intelligent-parking-praised-by-boroughs\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent parking praised by boroughs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Next Tuesday, a public consultation to discuss whether Laval should use intelligent parking will occur. It begins at 7 p.m. and will take place in Laval at the Ch\u00e2teau Royal, 3500, boulevard du Souvenir, right next to City Hall.<\/p>\n

The Montreal boroughs of Verdun and LaSalle plan to continue using intelligent parking, regardless of what happens in Laval.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dynamic parking system functions well in Verdun and responds to our needs,\u201d said Verdun borough mayor Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Parenteau. \u201cCitizens who use it find it helpful. It enables them to avoid moving their car multiple times for nothing and saves time for the borough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parenteau doesn\u2019t think the system directly affects snow-clearing operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the last few storms, Verdun received fewer complaints than many other boroughs where intelligent parking isn\u2019t in force,\u201d he said. \u201cThere may be ways to improve snow-clearing operations, but removing dynamic parking wouldn\u2019t be among them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Verdun\u2019s system was copied from LaSalle, a neighbouring borough. Residents who attended the last borough meeting were asked about intelligent parking and snow clearing. Most praised intelligent parking even while complaining about snow-clearing.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone in LaSalle is used to calling to find out if they have to move their cars or not,\u201d said Francisco Moreno, a LaSalle citizen who made the borough\u2019s snow-clearing struggles public by complaining to Beno\u00eet Dutrizac. \u201cFor the snow, all the administration has to do is apply the rules. They\u2019re not doing that because they want to save money.\u201d<\/p>\n

When LaSalle spokesperson Pierre Dupuis was asked about the issue last week, he said that the borough hasn\u2019t received any complaints about snow-clearing on their property in the last two weeks.<\/p>\n

He also described the borough\u2019s \u201cinfo-stationnement<\/em>\u201d system that went into force fifteen years ago. Until then, during every snow storm, public works employees had to drive around the city putting temporary no-parking signs up wherever clearing operations were needed. When the snow-clearing was done, employees had to drive around to pick up all the signs.<\/p>\n

That no longer happens.<\/p>\n

Now most streets in the borough have permanent signs describing rotating parking regulations that allow residents to park on one side of a street three days a week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) from November 15 until April 15. Residents park on the other side Tuesdays and Thursdays.<\/p>\n

Dupuis says that snow-clearing operations usually take place roughly 25 days every winter. Public workers now update a phone system to inform residents when parking regulations are fully in force or have been relaxed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen snow clearing is done, workers don’t have to retrieve all these signs,\u201d said Dupuis. \u201cAll they have to do is access the phone system and change the message. This way, we let people park on both sides of the street about 80% of the time in the winter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Note: This article appeared on pages 1 and 8 of the city edition and on page 13 of the Laval edition of The Suburban<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Next Tuesday, a public consultation to discuss whether Laval should use intelligent parking will occur. It begins at 7 p.m. and will take place in Laval at the Ch\u00e2teau Royal, 3500, boulevard du Souvenir, right next to City Hall. The Montreal boroughs of Verdun and LaSalle plan to continue using intelligent parking, regardless of what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23,22],"tags":[637],"class_list":["post-16292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hundredmilecircle","category-lasalleposts","category-verdunposts","tag-intelligent-parking","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16296,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16292\/revisions\/16296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}