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Overnight parking permits now available in Toronto
Finally! In one of the most logical moves made by City Hall in recent memory, overnight parking permits are now available for Toronto residents. The temporary permits will come in 24 or 48-hour versions, at $8 and $12 respectively.
Thanks for this most welcome news should go to Councillor Paula Fletcher, who first proposed the idea. "There are many situations which call for a short-term permit," Fletcher said of the proposal back in March. "Spur of the moment decisions to stay overnight, either for romantic or 'too much merriment' reasons, lead to a $30 ticket.... Many weekend visitors are from out of town and have to pay for a seven-day temporary permit."
Here are the instructions on how to acquire a permit via a City of Toronto press release:
"To get a permit, applicants need access to a computer and printer, credit card, and a couple of minutes to fill out some basic information online. The simple, step-by-step procedure can be found at http://www.toronto.ca/transportation. Weekly on-street parking permits can also be obtained through this method. Residents can also apply for an overnight on-street parking permit in person at Toronto City Hall, Etobicoke Civic Centre and East York Civic Centre. For more information about the City's parking permits call 311."
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@Oz Akgun, free overnight parking is impossible in many areas of Toronto because many houses don't have driveways, and streets are already rammed with people who DO pay for permits. $8 to park overnight in a permit only area is reasonable.
In the suburbs and areas that aren't permit-only this isn't an issue, and you can generally park overnight for free anyway.
In that sense I'm not really sure how we're "Way Behind" because I can't think of any other city in Ontario that allows the convenience of paying for a permit online at anytime, printing it and sticking it to your dash and being instantly valid.
This temporary permit doesn't cover overnight parking on streets that are not already designated for permit parking, and thus it is useless (at least to me)...
You're wrong. In Burlington and Waterloo, both places where I've lived, overnight parking technically isn't free. Even parking on a street during the day for >3 hours can get you a ticket, too, if the by-law guy is an a-hole.
Waterloo has (not sure if Burlington still has) overnight parking exemptions for up to 3 days in a row for a maximum of 4 times a year, which is free. Otherwise all city streets are considered no parking zones overnight unless otherwise stated on a street sign or you and your neighbours apply and pay for an exemption for part of the street.
To my knowledge the only city that has free street parking in the GTA area for all 24 hours of a day is Hamilton. They don't even bother ticketing people for parking their car in the opposite direction of traffic like every other city does.