The Parking Meters Didn't Remove Cars. They Just Pushed Them Onto Your Street.
The city put pay parking into a 10-15 block industrial area — no warning, no consultation with the people who actually park there every day. The businesses barely have customers; it's almost entirely workers parking for
their shifts. So what happened? The cars didn't disappear. They moved straight into the residential streets next door.
I talked to people who used to take transit downtown and now drive instead — because paying for the train AND paying for parking downtown costs more than just driving the whole way. That's one more car on the road, not one less.
And now residential neighbourhoods that have parked freely in front of their own homes for decades are worried they're next.
This isn't a transit success story. It's a cost pushed onto residents who had nowhere else to go.
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