Andrew Chaplin wrote:
> <John_Kane@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Andrew Chaplin wrote:
> >> <John_Kane@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >I was wondering what the standard size of an on-street parking
space
> >> > would be. I am sure there is a standard but just who would have
it?
> >> > MTO ?
> >>
> >> I think it would be in municpal ordnances. Talk to a planning
departme=
nt.
> >
> > Ah yes. In fact as I was riding by city hall yesterday afternoon that
> > crossed my mind. This, of course after I had posted. :) I was just
> > hoping that there was some North American generally accepted standard
> > that I could pull off the net. I would expect that there is and it
> > would just be referenced in the municipal by-laws or standards.
> >
> > Oh well, where's the phone book
>
> I am sure text on urban planning have suggestions,
I would think so butthe 2 or 3 I've looked at have not. I probably need
to grab a more specialized traffic or street planning text.
>but Kingston is special when it comes to parking.
>
> In 1981, I was courting my future wife who was at St. Lawrence College
wh=
ile
> I lived in Valcartier, P.Q. After a week on scheme I drove to Kingston
on=
a
> Friday evening, entered her place of work where she was a barmaid, saw
th=
at
> she was busy, and went back out to snooze in my car on Wellington St. It
=
was
> a bright yellow car, and I thought she would recognize it across the
stre=
et
> from the front door of the bar. As it turned out, she didn't. I woke up
t=
he
> next morning to find that those b****** from the City had given me a
park=
ing
> ticket while I had been sleeping in the car. When I got to the apartment
I
> found my fianc=E9e with a major lip-on: she thought I had stood her up
the
> previous evening. At least the standard parking ticket in Kingston back
t=
hen
> was only about ten bucks and payable in a drop-box by City Hall.
Hey, it could have been worse! My first week at Queen's, long ago,the
Queen's Journal had a picture of a Rolls Royce being hauled out of a
parking lot.:) You could have been towed to Yarker or some such place.
They probably thought, " Oh someone's had a bit too much and is
sleeping it off, this'll teach him" and went on, chorkling happily.
John Kane, Kingston ON Canada
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