From the CBC archives: Tales from Winnipeg parking bans past
CBC Manitoba spoke with many car-owners ticketed or towed last weekend during Winnipeg's first full citywide residential parking ban of 2015.
In total, 1,605 Winnipeg car-owners were treated to the city's courtesy towing services between Feb. 13 and Feb. 15. And 6,697 tickets were issued.
As was the case in 1984 and 1995, many Winnipeggers expressed similar concerns over the city's snow clearing program following the parking ban those years.
Some expressed anger over being unable to locate their vehicles after they were towed and moved blocks away from where they parked. Others said the city's 3-1-1 help-line operators weren't terribly helpful or didn't immediately know where city crews had moved their vehicles.
Even ahead of the ban, Winnipeggers complained that the city's "Know Your Zone?" parking ban notification system was confusing.
Some might say that the nearly 7,000 tickets issued in three days lends credence to that complaint.
Mayor Brian Bowman commented on the matter this week, saying the city is considering creating a "Know Your Zone?" app to help better inform Winnipeg drivers of their parking zones ahead of bans.
It remains to be seen if an app will help keep parked cars off the streets during residential parking bans in the future.
For the time being, lets revisit two CBC vault videos from parking bans past and see if we can’t learn from (or laugh at) Winnipeg’s ticketed and towed in 1984 and 1995.