Hello,

Saw your website and thought why not.

I, along with another fellow motorcyclist received tickets at a spot where we usually park. The description of the offense is “having stopped a road vehicle at less than 5 meters from a pedestrian crosswalk without
the necessity to do so”.

We have parked here many years and this is the first time we are ticketed for this. I went around the block and noticed the “official” pay-parking zones are also within this 5 meter rule. If I get a ticket then shouldn’t these other cars in the parking zones within that  5 meters also get a ticket. I have included photos to show the distance and indicate where the pay-parking spot falls in relation to the 5 meters. Read the rest of this entry »

Hello,

What is the correct legal distance from the no parking Bus zone sign to the regular bus stop ? STM just chooses their spots on where to put their no parking bus zone sign based on where land is available.

This means the distance from the bus stop to the bus zone sign on the pole is given second thought.

Where I live this distance disallows me from parking on the street in front of my garage driveway.

The remedy for this is to simply trace a yellow curve line on the street. The curved trace would separate where the bus would make it’s curve in order to position itself for the bus stop and allow me to park in front of my garage. Read the rest of this entry »

hello,

here is my story :
I got a speeding ticket but the officer never asked for my driver license. He just gave me the ticket. I asked him to see the speed I was driving at but he didn’t answer. He completely ignored every question I asked him and just went back to his car.

should I contest this ticket ?

thanks,
GM

Was visiting Montreal last week and parked at street parking.  The meter said parking fees were only from 800am to 900pm.  I parked around 700pm, paid for until 900pm and was going to move the car before 800am the next day.  We even asked a local Montreal pedestrian if we can park there and she too told us we could.

Next morning, went to move the car and had a parking ticket for CAD 52.

I later realized that there was a sign seperate from the parking meter’s at the end of the road which stated that parking between 730-900 was prohibited.

Is it worthwhile contesting this ?

Thanks.

Hi

Do I have to pay this parking ticket, incurred in Montreal, if the designated place is incorrectly identified ? I came home for lunch not having realized winter parking exemptions had been lifted and received a ticket for it. Fine, I was wrong.

However, the ticket indicates that the location of the infraction is 7 blocks away from where the infraction occurred (i suppose they got lazy and forgot to change the street name in their device). I was in, in fact, at the correct civic number, but at the incorrect street name.

Can I contest it ? How do I prove where I was on the given time and date?

Thanks for helping !

hi my name is pamela.

i just recently got pulled over for not doing a full stop sign. when i saw the cop behind me i didnt understand why because i know for a fact i did my last 2 stop signs properly. the ones before that i cant even remember. so the cop pulls me over and tells me i didnt do my stop sign 2 stop signs before.

is that even permited ?

im not mad about the actuall ticket just confused as to why he waited two stop signs later in order to give me the ticket.

i wish to contest it but do i have a chance ? some advice would be much appreciated

thank you !

Dear all,

Herewith I would like to join your blog. My story is below and I intent to contest the ticket. Any opinion or advice would be really helpful, if you could please post it on your blog.

What happened was that I was driving with 50 km/h in a 50 km/h zone on Sherbrooke East (Montreal) and I passed a yellow light. The police gave me a ticket which I will contest preparing to base my defence on C.C 24-2, Art. 360 of the Highway Safety Code of Quebec, where it says that “Unless otherwise directed by a sign or signal, when facing an amber light, the driver of a road vehicle or any person riding a bicycle must stop his vehicle before the pedestrian crosswalk or stop-line or, if none, before the near side of the roadway he is about to cross, unless he has entered it or is so close to it that he could not stop in safety; he may proceed only when a signal shows he may do so.” I believed I would not have been able to stop safely because of the speed and because it changed when I was very close to the stop line. Read the rest of this entry »

Hi, I have received a ticket for parking in a parking zone without a valid ticket in Montreal

I parked in a zone on Prince Arthur I then fed the required amount into the parking meter and placed the ticket on the dash of my car. When I came back I noticed a parking fine on the window. The ticket says that I was parked in a metered zone without a valid ticket, I then noticed that I had entered the incorrect parking bay number into the machine (PB205 instead of PB204).

I paid the the required amount for a parking space and received a ticket, I couldn’t have parked in the other bay as it was allready taken and the same car was there when I left. This was a simple mistake, do I have a leg to stand on if I conteste this.

thanks

Dan

I was going east bound on auto-route 10 around Bolton area. I was approaching an over pas on a decline with my cruise control on at a spot over 110km/hour.  I saw through the corner of my eye a car at the top of the ramp to the overpass, just the nose of the car. It looked as though it was stopped at the stop sign up there. As I come out from under the overpass I look in my mirror to see that it’s an SQ.

He clocked me at 149km I told him it was impossible because I had my cruise set.  (Albeit over the 100 km/hr allowance, but they usually don’t bother you at 110km. but, I didn’t tell him that) I never asked for proof of his radar.  That part of the road was in a decline; could it be possible that going down a hill with the cruise on, that it would have fluctuated that much (110 – 149)? My ticket is for 315$ and 5 demerits.

My question is; is there any way to fight it at least to a lesser fine or at least to remove the demerits.  One, the road was on a decline. And two, the SQ was hidden at the overpasses intersection at the top of the ramp.

Thank you,

Rob

I just got home on a Sunday night out with friends.  I had purchased 6 tickets from the metro vendor a few weeks ago.  When I got on at McGill station, I used a ticket, ran it through the machine, collected it and then discarded the ticket, since I live in walking distance from Jolicoeur station.

When I arrived at Jolicoeur, I received a ticket for $214 because I did not hold onto my transfer.  The transfer I believed I no longer needed, since I was not taking a bus afterwards.  The 4 STM “police” told me if I did not provide proof of identity I would be arrested on the spot.

They also told me they did not have to provide information about this “new policy” of having to hold onto transfers because it was on their website, and on the transfer itself.  But it was not a bilingual transfer, so being an Anglophone, I was unaware of this new
“law”.

Please advise me on the best way to contest this ticket, because I will leave the province before I pay one red cent of this illegal, immoral and unconstitutional ticket.