The most illegally parked-in spot in Brandon?
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 12/12/2011 (5260 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Because both I and my girlfriend work downtown, I spend a lot of time in Brandon’s core area. It ain’t perfect, but there are loads of great little quirks and I keep discovering new ones.
One of those quirks popped up when the city started its traffic loop experiment in the summer.
Ninth Street and 10th Street were converted to complementary one-way streets (one northbound, one southbound) so that drivers could drive round-and-round in a circle that included Princess Avenue and Pacific Avenue.
As I posted back then, an inadvertant side-effect of the new streets was that, for the first time in Brandon, two one-way streets would intersect at a lights-controlled intersection. And that means that left-turns on red would be allowable.
The city installed signs at the affected intersections making this clear.
They also installed a couple of other signs, outside the Scotiabank downtown.
Because drivers heading down Rosser Avenue can legally turn left on red at 10th Street, the city installed a turning lane where there wasn’t one before.
To do that, they took the loading zone outside of the bank, and turned about a third of it into a no-stopping zone. That’s the turning lane for Rosser Avenue onto 10th Street.
However, I don’t think it’s ever been used.
I drive past there almost every single day, often several times a day, and I would guess that 99 per cent of the time, there’s a car parked in that no stopping zone. (I also see plenty of people turning left from the driving lane, but when there’s a car parking in the turning lane, well, I understand.)
So today, as I was driving past, I see a car backing in to park in the no-stopping zone and I think, "OK, this time I’m snapping a picture, and I’m blogging about this — I’ll bet it’s the spot in the city that is illegally parked in the most!"
I pulled over to the opposite side of the street (in another bank’s loading zone) and drew my iPhone. As traffic cleared, I got the shot framed, and what to my wondering eyes did appear?
A bylaw officer! So I got a picture of her patiently explaining the no-stopping signs to the driver:
It won’t win me any photography awards, I know, but I had to catch it before more traffic got in the way.
It was pretty great, by the way, to see the bylaw officer go out of her way to catch up to the driver and point out the signs to him. That’s a heck of a lot better than getting a $120 parking ticket!
So what do you think? Am I right that this is the most illegally parked-in spot in the city? Can you think of any other candidates?