Snow parking ban isn’t the answer

I’m not sure this writer thought through his suggestion of a ban on all parking on Hamilton streets during snow. Where exactly are the cars to go?

A better suggestion is what many cities do: Electrified signs are on every street that FLASH fair warning that cars must be moved due to ensuing plowing. Cars not moved are towed away.

The warning is given to one side of the street. Once plowed the warning flips to the other side of the street and everyone moves their cars back. It is a pain but everyone has to pull together in a storm, the result being streets that are cleared crisply to the curb, allowing full parking post snow storms. (and of course, it should be added that these towns also blow the snow into receiving trucks and REMOVE the snow from the street, not just push it onto the curb to be shovelled back out again … Which is an offence.)

Julie Webster, Hamilton