Boulevard parking tickets draw questions from council
Niki Bouchard was startled to find a $30 ticket on her windshield Saturday claiming she was illegally parked on the boulevard.
She and a number of residents on the 700 and 800 block of 18th Street West, awoke this weekend to find their vehicles ticketed from bylaw officers for parking on a city boulevard. Bouchard, however, would disagree.
“For bylaw to say we are parking on the boulevard, well, there is no boulevard,” she explained. “There is no differentiation. It is a gravel street. There is no sidewalk, no paving, no curbs and no differentiation.”
Bouchard says she is forced to park on the street as her property has no driveway or garage. There are also no street lights, so she attempts to park in the light cast from her house, and close to her fence to protect her new car from being peppered with gravel.