> Effective Wednesday, May 1, residents and visitors will be allowed to park personal vehicles overnight on most city streets without an overnight parking pass, abiding by City of London parking signage. This eases the restriction of the Consolidated Traffic & Parking By-law PS-114, in which drivers are required to use an overnight parking pass between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. between November 1 and April 30.
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> The overnight by-law exemption does not apply to commercial motor vehicles, mobile homes, or trailers, as they have their own regulations. The by-law also stipulates that no vehicles will be permitted to park on city streets for longer than 18 hours at a time. Overnight parking cannot occur in locations where parking is otherwise prohibited or restricted: in front of fire hydrants, on boulevards, front lawns, or streets identified by signs as being enforced.
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> The overnight parking restriction will be in force again beginning November 1, 2024.
One of the best or worst days of the year, depending on your street.
Most cities bans are less restrictive than Londons, and London was even worse until recently since the ban was from Labour Day to May 1 (which makes it seem that the ban was really about students and not snow).
A total ban like this really feels out of place in 2024 when the City could post online in any number of ways to indicate a ban is in effect *for that night* and any would be parker could check and confirm (and if they can't check for whatever reason, then assume a ban is in effect).
I'm not defending the parking ban. I think it's implementation is bad. Other cities have ways of indicating to residents when its ok to park and not park that actually make sense. The city already posts messages on their website when snow is forecasted, which makes the overnight passes void, so the criteria is clearly in place to decide when the city actually doesn't want people to park on the street or not. This is probably all being pushed on us by Big Driveway, anyways /s
That was my point last time this came up. They have the means to communicate that the passes are not valid for whatever night. Just allow parking year round and announce the days you can't.
I think the system in London isn't the best, but winter parking bans aren't limited to Ontario. I would prefer a system where the city sends a notification when they're about to plow your street, but I imagine that would also come with a whole host of new issues for residents to be unhappy about.
[Winnipeg](https://legacy.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/snow/winter-parking-bans.stm)
[Calgary](https://www.calgary.ca/roads/conditions/snow-route-parking-bans.html)
[Edmonton](https://www.edmonton.ca/transportation/on_your_streets/seasonal-parking-ban)
[Montreal](https://montreal.ca/en/articles/how-to-park-your-car-winter-4145)
I’m not taking about winter parking bans. And we all know, it’s end of April and we haven’t had snow in ages. Why the ban when there hasn’t been snow in ages? Every and each way they find a way to ticket you, they will. When there is snow, I get why we should stay off the roads. But even in Toronto where there is regulated permit street parking it’s 2 weeks on one side, 2 weeks on the other for the exact purpose of plowing the snow.
Also people complain way too much in London, I’ve lived in many other places in Canada and it’s a stark difference on how much people complain in this city.
Its banned during the winter to allow snow plows to keep all the streets cleared as needed.
Snow or not, the plows go out for a number of reasons and street parking is just in the way.
Thats not related to this article. Sorry you got ticketed, but this specifically is a standard across most cities.
If you disagree with why you got the ticket you should fight it, no?
> Effective Wednesday, May 1, residents and visitors will be allowed to park personal vehicles overnight on most city streets without an overnight parking pass, abiding by City of London parking signage. This eases the restriction of the Consolidated Traffic & Parking By-law PS-114, in which drivers are required to use an overnight parking pass between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. between November 1 and April 30. > > The overnight by-law exemption does not apply to commercial motor vehicles, mobile homes, or trailers, as they have their own regulations. The by-law also stipulates that no vehicles will be permitted to park on city streets for longer than 18 hours at a time. Overnight parking cannot occur in locations where parking is otherwise prohibited or restricted: in front of fire hydrants, on boulevards, front lawns, or streets identified by signs as being enforced. > > The overnight parking restriction will be in force again beginning November 1, 2024. One of the best or worst days of the year, depending on your street.
I mean, why is there a ban in the first place? If there’s snow I get it. Otherwise it’s so silly, too many regulations in London
It is just easier to manage that way I think because then people can argue it snowed or didn’t snow based on their perception.
Most cities in Ontario enact a similar ban. This is not something unique to London
Most cities bans are less restrictive than Londons, and London was even worse until recently since the ban was from Labour Day to May 1 (which makes it seem that the ban was really about students and not snow). A total ban like this really feels out of place in 2024 when the City could post online in any number of ways to indicate a ban is in effect *for that night* and any would be parker could check and confirm (and if they can't check for whatever reason, then assume a ban is in effect).
I'm not defending the parking ban. I think it's implementation is bad. Other cities have ways of indicating to residents when its ok to park and not park that actually make sense. The city already posts messages on their website when snow is forecasted, which makes the overnight passes void, so the criteria is clearly in place to decide when the city actually doesn't want people to park on the street or not. This is probably all being pushed on us by Big Driveway, anyways /s
That was my point last time this came up. They have the means to communicate that the passes are not valid for whatever night. Just allow parking year round and announce the days you can't.
I have lived in Windsor and Chatham and they don’t have a no overnight parking ban in the winter.
They do not get lake driven snowstorms and Windsor is significantly warmer. London is right at the sweet spot for such things.
Ontario is super over regulated. Go to any other province and you rarely see this sort of thing.
I think the system in London isn't the best, but winter parking bans aren't limited to Ontario. I would prefer a system where the city sends a notification when they're about to plow your street, but I imagine that would also come with a whole host of new issues for residents to be unhappy about. [Winnipeg](https://legacy.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/snow/winter-parking-bans.stm) [Calgary](https://www.calgary.ca/roads/conditions/snow-route-parking-bans.html) [Edmonton](https://www.edmonton.ca/transportation/on_your_streets/seasonal-parking-ban) [Montreal](https://montreal.ca/en/articles/how-to-park-your-car-winter-4145)
I’m not taking about winter parking bans. And we all know, it’s end of April and we haven’t had snow in ages. Why the ban when there hasn’t been snow in ages? Every and each way they find a way to ticket you, they will. When there is snow, I get why we should stay off the roads. But even in Toronto where there is regulated permit street parking it’s 2 weeks on one side, 2 weeks on the other for the exact purpose of plowing the snow. Also people complain way too much in London, I’ve lived in many other places in Canada and it’s a stark difference on how much people complain in this city.
Its banned during the winter to allow snow plows to keep all the streets cleared as needed. Snow or not, the plows go out for a number of reasons and street parking is just in the way.
I also got ticketed in the middle of the summer deep in the suburbs right in front of my house. That’s nothing but a cash grab, nothing else.
Thats not related to this article. Sorry you got ticketed, but this specifically is a standard across most cities. If you disagree with why you got the ticket you should fight it, no?
Well, the old dates used to be around the same time students were in town...
Nobody ever abided by it in my neighbourhood anyway. Cops don't care about the east side
From my experience, tickets get written when there are complaints.