The new signalisation can sometimes play us a trick… especially the new interdiction of turning, or the new interdiction of parking…

Daniel story who wants to know if in those circumstances is contesting a parking ticket and win our case possible…

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I live in the St-Jean Baptiste (Quebec) for 3 years. This morning, I got up and notice that I’ve got a parking ticket on my car. A sign recently added was near my vehicle. It was installed few days ago, not more… there are still the marks on the sidewalk.

Usually, the city always add a sign under her added new signs, that was what’s been done recently (one year ago in the same neighbourhood Saint-Marie)

I would like to contest… do I stand a chance ?

April 12
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Marie-Claude story :
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Today, I got a ticket for a parking near my home. Here is my story…

I live in the Old-Montreal. Around my home, there is a building that is in under construction work which makes 5 sides of the street practically hard to use as parking space. The street where I got my ticket is completely wrecked and is made out of sand and rocks ! However, two road signs that point one towards the other (at many meters distance) that the one that park there need a vignette.

This I got. But out of this zone an other sign say that it is forbidden to park between 1pm and 4pm from April 1st to December 1st. I know that those signs are useful for the street cleaning. But the thing is that it is not possible to clean the street in this situation. Furthermore the sign points out of the zone where I was parked.

My questions are the following :

1. Is the sign valid for the entire street if there is no arrow ?
2. Is the sign still valid if the street cleaning is impossible to do ?

The number of the article mentioned on my ticket is Atr:30 par.1

The description of the infraction on the ticket is “parking a vehicle where the signalisation forbids it (cleaning)

Thank you !

May 26th
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The presence of parking meters with business hours of doesn’t change any other rules in place… So even if there is a parking meter, make sure to check out the road signs and posters !

Talk about this to Wilson who got a ticket for parking meters outside of the business hours…

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I parked my car on the corner of René Levesque and St-Urbain using a parking meter that indicates “business hours 9:30am to 2:30pm and 6:30pm to 9:00pm”. I got there around 2pm and paid until 2:30pm thinking that the parking was free from 2:30pm to 6:30pm.

I got a ticket for using the parking meters outside of the business hours at 3:30pm since I didn’t notice all the signs around the parking place that indicated that you couldn’t park there after the business hours.

The message wasn’t clear… it should had said “Parking period from 9:30am to 2:30pm and 6:30pm to 9:00pm”. This way I would have guesses that I couldn’t park there between 2:30pm and 18:30pm. If I contest this ticket… can I win my case ?
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My opinion :

I don’t think so… unfortunately… unless you can prove that the signs were to fare from your parking space, contradictory or impossible to understand…

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Isabelle is asking me since she got a parking ticket when the parking machine didn’t work… what should she do ?

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And my other question is about a ticket I got in a Verdun parking lot… I was going to work (in a hospital) and when I arrived, two parking machine didn’t work… and while I was working, I couldn’t go and see if they were working again… can I contest this ?

Thank you in advance…

Isabelle

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Patrick unfortunately got a ticket for night parking … but he wasn’t aware of this law… Can a judge go against the decision ?

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Hi,
I got a ticket because I went against a municipal night parking law (November 1st to April 1st) not showed on the public lane.

I examined on the 19th page a similar contravention but it didn’t answer the question that I am about to ask you.

If there is no sign on the public lane to mark the boundaries of this zone with the details of the regulation, can this be a reasonable defence in front of the court ? This adding the fact that we weren’t aware of this regulation.

Thank you in advance and have a nice day !
Patrick

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Tired of driving around to find a vacant parking place ? Don’t be temped by parking your car on the corner of the street… you could get a ticket for parking on the corner of the street 5 meters. Take about that to Frederick…

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Hello,

I live in the city of Anjou. For about a week, I had to go sleep at my grand-mother house because of my night work schedule. One morning, I get at my grand-mother, I take care to park my car on the right side of the street, since they are washing the streets.

Finally, I found a place, 15 minutes later, but I am close to the 5 meters distance of the stop. But, my bumper doesn’t go further then the sidewalk, far from that.

Furthermore, I wasn’t blocking anyone sight, since the other road is a one-way and I am on the side where I can’t block anyone sight in ANY circumstance. I believe this is abusing to charge 52$ when I wasn’t blocking anyone sight mostly when there is no parking available.

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The starting and ending hours of parking places are always respected by the officers… in fact… that is what is supposed… take about this with Matthieu !

He was witness of one series of parking ticket with a little of exaggeration maybe ???

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Hello,

The other day, I was dining with some friends in a private house. It was forbidden to park on the side on the streets after 7pm from Wednesday to Sunday. I left at 6h55 (hour on my cell phone) just before since I knew I had to move my car. When I got to my car, their was already a 85$ parking ticket, the registered hour was 19h04, hand written.

I was furious, since it my neighbourhood, it is not the first time that I see this kind of lie. Can you imagine that every morning, I leave the house around 7am for work and when I leave for work, every car that needed to be moved, since the parking between 7am and 9am is forbidden, well every car already had a ticket for at least 10 minutes.

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We can’t even sleep peacefully without being interrupted by the cops ? Sylvain story that got a mailed ticket for illegal parking…

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At my own surprise, I got a ticket from the city court for a unpaid ticket ! Since I never got the so called ticket on my windshield, I looked for the date and hour. I received a ticket for illegal parking at midnight on a week night at an intersection that I don’t even know ! I am sure that I was never parked there! I looked at my agenda : I work really early (I get up at 5am and I live in the suburban area!) I don’t have any friends in that part of the city and nothing in the surroundings that could have made me go park in that area.

That ticket is impossible ! I just don’t understand !

And I never lend my car !

How could I park my car in that part of the city at that time of the day when I am in my bed at 40km from there !

I got in touch with the person in charge (!), and faxed my side of the story and they decided to go on with the pursuit against me (even with my wife attesting that I was home). It is easy to prove when you’re at work, during the day, but at midnight, beside my spouse, how could I prove that I was in my bed! Finlay… I knew that the city was having financial problems, but that is a rip off !
I will contest !!!

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That we were looking for trouble or not, getting a parking ticket is always frustrating… So imagine if you get two parking tickets in 24 hours just like Rosalie…

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Hello,

Lately, I got two parking tickets in less then 24 hours.

I heard that you can’t get 2 tickets for the same infraction in a 24 hours period.

Is this true ?

Thank you !

Rosalie

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My opinion :

An infraction is an infraction… if you were not parked in the same place… You didn’t specify it in your story if the car was parked at the same location for both tickets… if it did, you will have to see… what was the time period on both tickets ?

If not, you don’t stand a chance…

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Parking in some streets can be pretty rare… but residents have a privilege on some part of the streets… if their sticker is valid… Here is Carole story… that not only got a ticket for parking sticker expired…

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Hello,

My parking ticket is expired and I got 3 tickets, one for each day that my car was parked. Can they give me three tickets for the same infraction ?

Thank you

Carole

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My opinion :

It is said, but there isn’t much to do here… don’t be late anymore !

Don’t spoil your privileges that way !

You really need a thundery explanation and out of your control… like an unpredictable hospitalisation…

Even an outside trip could hardly be a justification…

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