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Parking bylaws harsh: reader
Friday July 4 2008
 
I’m responding to a letter in last week’s paper entitled ‘Parking bylaws unfair’. You are not the only one out there frustrated. We have also been targeted for years. Our street (Bruce Beer Drive) is large and the parking control is on it daily. The parking control did say that the city only comes out if someone calls it in, well whatever. We have been here for 19 years and like you, we have four adults that drive and three cars.
We did have four, but were forced to let it go for fear of getting too many tickets, and the six inch measuring of the bumpers and the front wheels, oh and the three hour limit in front of your own house, the tire marking— what a crock.
So I am without a car. My grown children all have cars that need to be here. The prices of the apartments in Brampton they cannot afford for now. So they will be with me until they all get married and move away. So in the mean time, we have to make do and pay the tickets and taxes, what a rip off.
I think our city should really try to be fair to Bramptonians. For families who have small drive ways and multiple cars there should be some kind of system in place, like increasing the number of times you can park on the street from 14 times a year to 30 per vehicle or maybe you can devise a reasonable monthly permit for the families who have no other place to park. It was suggested to me that we park at a school, church or parks and recreation centre, well who will be taking me home after my job finishes from the centres?  
Joanne Belgrave