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.'"

Comments

GRR PARKING

[blhack]

Cue the "ZOMFG apple can do no wrong!" crowd!

Think about it guys, how would you feel if microshaft decided that they wanted the front of their office to look pretty, so the took several of the oh-so-scarce downtown parking spots off the market.

Anybody who lives in tempe, arizona knows what I'm talking about. Mill avenue is a hot spot with a few "oh-so-choice" parking spots that are both CHEAP AS HELL, and right in front of the shops. Well lately the city has made a lot of these prized parking spots "Cab Only"...meaning that the cab drivers hang out in front of the bars all night long, and people who are actually trying to PARK in the parking spaces have to venture off into the wilderness that is ParkIT looking for some overpriced spot where you car will most likely have its stereo stolen.

MOral of the story is that Montrealians should not have to suffer a harder time trying to find a parking space because apple wanted their shop to look extra pretty.

Re:I don't quite get it..

[QMalcolm]

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!

apple ignored the obvious solution

[rpax9000]

i'm sure if apple changed their name to "pomme" or put mayonnaise on the parking meters, they could get away with this.

Here's an idea

[blackjackshellac]

Apple can just buy some groovy cars to fill the spots and keep pumping loonies into the metres.

Fscking Apple fanboy reporter, or what?

Re:Alternate, but rejected, Slashdot headlines

[WilliamSChips]

Wow... I just thought of something- if Steve Jobs and Lunis Torballs got in a fight, who's side would Shatslot take? The dumbasses, like you, would all take Steve Ballmer's side.