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Canadian Bureaucrats Don't "Think Different"
owlgorithm writes "Apple's new store in Montreal has three parking meters on the street in front of it. The city is in the middle of a campaign to reduce downtown parking. In Apple's ever-conscientious attempt to improve design, they offered to reimburse the city for the parking meters and their revenue if the city would remove them. Answer: Non — because 'We've never done it before, so we can't.'"
he could also stand there looking all sullen and geek chic.
I like your thinking boy, you're hired!
which is totally what she said
The solution is to stop worrying about parking meters.
Instead, go out and get pissed at the bars on Rue Crescent and Rue Bishop, and then close out the evening leering at peelers in one (or several) of Montreal's legendary tittie bars.
C'mon Apple, think outside the box a little.
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
Now that it's published, they had better hope they never get their way. Bill Gates will pay someone to park some nasty clunker right in front and do various offensive and repulsive things. If you don't believe me, just look at the posts around here.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
Would have been much funnier if the city had agreed to remove the parking meters, taken the 35k and put 3 much larger and more obtrusive No Parking signs there instead.
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I'm not sure you should judge Canadians by the actions of the Québécois. They are distinct, after all, and should be laughed at as a separate group.
Oh, sorry, this is Canada..91.5 cm wall, 45.5 cm letters.
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Gah. Or not. Oops, oh well. :)
Wouldn't that make it a buy-law?
Tightened it up a bit more for you.
Serve Gonk.
"Non -- because 'We've never done it before, so we can't.'"
If only they had taken that attitude when they were first offered the chance to breathe.
from TFA: he idea of parking meters, besides revenue, is to keep people from parking on the street all day. The borough could do that simply by making the three-car stretch into a No Parking zone. The city is, after all, trying to reduce the number of parking spots downtown.
That is, the author of the article is making some wild-ass guess about it. The Montreal Gazette is hardly a bastion of responsible journalism. Plus, he's obviously wrong - the city of Montreal never puts up one no-parking sign when 3 or 4 will suffice.
Besides all that, I fail to see how it would make much difference either way, given that the rue Sainte Catherine is already a parking lot most of the time.
It sounds like the spots would still be there, but they'd be meter-less: which would make the spots in front of the Apple store very appealing. Might as well step in since it's right there. Whoops, you walked out with a new Macbook and an ipod nano!
Perhaps the first day. Then the subsequent 10 years after you go to work early to park your car there taking up the space from a potential apple customer.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
No, but you see...in Canada, we don't have to deal with black people. =)
So instead you're killing water flora and fauna by disturbing the natural water's flow? How can you be so insensitive?
Not that I don't doubt your estimates, i'm sure a union city crew may cost $35,000 to remove the meters and repair the sidewalk. But based on observation they can be uprooted with enough force.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
By that logic, if I've never died before, I am immortal.
Although...the highlander had to die first to become immortal.
I'd trust the highlander more than Canadians.
> However, the city makes way more money from parking tickets than from parking meters.
Right... So removing the meters from in front of the Apple store and replacing them with "No Parking" signs is going to somehow reduce the opportunity to hand out tickets?
Are we talking about the same Montreal? I'm thinking of the one full of Quebecois motorists.
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Log in or piss off.
They wouldn't have to repair the sidewalk. They would simply put "No Parking" signs where the meters were.
And it is unlikely that they will move the meters to somewhere else. It is more likely that they would keep them in storage for a construction company to use in future sidewalk development.
> Not bad for Babelfish.
Pretty good, exactly. Sounds just like a Quebecker trying to speak english!
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