no more free parking on my motorcycle?

[CatatonicBug]

im actually talking more about street parking than parking lots.
we are allowed to park in any street parking spot for free, so you usually get about 10 bikes all parked side by side taking up only 2 or 3 spots.

seems like they need to figure out how to pro rate the street parking for bikes if they are going to charge us (not to mention solve the problems associated with pay and display parking on a motorcycle)

Around here, lots and street parking are all treated the same. Painted boxes for each spot, with a meter on each one. One vehicle per box/meter.

[hamjam]

Hi Check the Sat. Toronto Star wheels section for Steve Bonds very good reply to this large pile of el toro poo poo from tweedledumb and tweedledumber . oh sorry our duly elected mare ( yes it is spelled as horse , because he is part of one, south end northbound) idiot ,goof and other words I am not allowed to use without being chastized by the Moderators here, go ahead ask me how I really feel

and off topic to this ,and I dont want to hijack your thread ,but are you going to join the Southern Ontario XS (SOXS ) at the January bike show with dinner attached?
Jim

[kevxs]

im actually talking more about street parking than parking lots.
we are allowed to park in any street parking spot for free, so you usually get about 10 bikes all parked side by side taking up only 2 or 3 spots.

seems like they need to figure out how to pro rate the street parking for bikes if they are going to charge us (not to mention solve the problems associated with pay and display parking on a motorcycle)

[CatatonicBug]

we have pay and display parking here, that is why i dont know how it will work with bikes. so with meter parking do 4 bikes take 1 spot like they do here?

Nope. One vehicle per spot. Of course, you're lucky to see more than one bike in a parking lot down town anyway.

[kevxs]

we have pay and display parking here, that is why i dont know how it will work with bikes. so with meter parking do 4 bikes take 1 spot like they do here?

[CatatonicBug]

We use parking meters here. If the meter is flashing, you get a ticket. Regardless of what type of vehicle. Free parking?? Yeah, right!

[DAVINCI]

Free parking? What the heck is that? Damn, here in New Pork City, the traffic agents just scan your plate and the tickets come in the mail. They don't even carry a freakin PEN anymore.

[kevxs]

Hi all, about a week ago here in Toronto there was talk of getting rid of the free parking motorcyclists enjoy.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/29/motorcycle-free-parking-faces-to-ban

This has me quite concerned, I work downtown and the free parking is really the only reason I can justify having a bike.

I was wondering how other cities handle this.

eg. How do you attach a parking stub to a bike without it blowing away or someone else just walking by and taking it?

Do other cities charge the same for a bike to park as a car even though a bike takes 1/4 the space?