The Official Toronto Discussion Thread

[Jefferson Jackson]

 

[Monsanto]

Toronto drivers hoping to get away with parking illegally should be prepared to pay more as new fines for certain parking violations have more than doubled on Friday.

Drivers will now have to pay $75, instead of $30, for parking illegally on city- and privately-owned property at thousands of locations across the city, including at TTC stations, Exhibition Place and commercial lots. The increased fine now matches the fine for unpaid parking in Green P lots.

“If it’s cheaper for you to get fined rather than paying it makes no sense,” Mayor Olivia Chow said on Friday morning. “There is a city council decision that is long overdue.”

Chow added that the city is continuing to discuss higher parking rates as well.
“I’m pushing for more cameras … I’m looking at traffic wardens … you’ll see more and more of them to catch bad behaviour and ease congestion,” she said, and underscored that people breaking traffic and parking laws should be fined.
Fines at curbside spots remain at $30, as it has for more than a decade, and the fine for parking in a designated bike lane remains at $150.
City council approved the move in October after a report showed “many instances” of drivers “taking their chances with incurring a parking violation notice” rather than paying for parking up front.

Coun. Paul Ainslie from Ward 24, Scarborough Guildwood, said earlier in September that the harsher fine is fair and on par with fees imposed by neighbouring municipalities.

Ten to 15 per cent of drivers don’t pay for parking on regular days at Exhibition Place, according to its CEO Dan Boyle. In September, when council was still considering increasing the fine, said the $30 ticket was “outdated.”
During council’s deliberations, city staff emphasized the new fine was meant to encourage compliance with parking rules, and did not estimate how much additional revenue the $45 bump would generate.
Last year the number of parking violation notices in city lots increased to over 106,000 from the almost 95,000 in 2021, while violations in private lots jumped to about 377,000 from about 320,000 the year before, the report stated. In total, police and city bylaw officers issued 1,479,644 parking tickets in 2021 and collected $90.2 million in tickets and fines.
Between 2011 and 2021, Toronto was short more than $27 million in unpaid traffic fines, previous reporting from the Star showed.
Even with the increased fine at $75, TTC transit riders face more than five times that in fines (up to $425) for fare evasion. The TTC resumed its fare evasion ticketing in February — which had been paused during the pandemic — to fill a $6 million shortfall.

Coun. Dianne Saxe (Ward 11, University-Rosedale) argued at a September meeting of the city’s infrastructure and environment committee that doling out “piddly fines” for drivers who don’t pay for on-street parking was unfair for TTC users and said the “grossly inadequate” on-street penalties deprived the city of much-needed revenue.

The greed never ends

 

[Jamal514]

Just wait until the children of Ukranian refugees in Canada grow up and become cops, judges, landlords, loan officers, etc

 

[Jefferson Jackson]

 

[Phitz]

Interesting. I was at a Dollarama store in Toronto last year on vacation and while I was waiting outside for my mom and cousin, there was an Indian security guard watching me like a hawk

Happen to me when I was visiting. I was at Food Basic, the man walked from the entrance to right in front of the self check out I was using.

 

[Phitz]

Just wait until the children of Ukranian refugees in Canada grow up and become cops, judges, landlords, loan officers, etc

I don't know. They might want to be black adjacent for cool credibility

 

[Phitz]

facts i have a Sikh friend that's a woman and she was saying how there wayyyy to many FOBs in Brampton that are acting likt they're "back home" she was making reference to the group-fighting (getting together in large groups with bats and machete and having a melee) she says the fob indians are acting crazy because they are such large numbers of them in Brampton....giving the rest a bad name.

Listened to an online podcast last year that said this was happening in small town Canada.

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

I don't know. They might want to be black adjacent for cool credibility

You don’t know that Ukrainians were throwing pregnant black women off trains in 2022

 

[Phitz]

You don’t know that Ukrainians were throwing pregnant black women off trains in 2022

I know that, but you know how kids raised in Canada want to be cool with certain black people or white people who like black people,so they taper their racism so they won't be shamed.

 

[RedCloakBlackWraithe]

I know that, but you know how kids raised in Canada want to be cool with certain black people or white people who like black people,so they taper their racism so they won't be shamed.

not in the real world. they snakes like a mf.

 

[Jefferson Jackson]

 

[RedCloakBlackWraithe]

that nazi lovin' fakkit trudeau.

 

[Jamal514]

I don't know. They might want to be black adjacent for cool credibility

They'll go through a phase and "come to thier senses" like most cacs

 

[Phitz]

They'll go through a phase and "come to thier senses" like most cacs

That too

 

[Jefferson Jackson]