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Parking in Charlottetown to cost more April 1

Parking in Charlottetown will cost $1.10 an hour beginning April 1. Town of Collingwood

Parking in Charlottetown will cost $1.10 an hour beginning April 1.

Published on March 15, 2013
Published on March 15, 2013
Nigel Armstrong  RSS Feed

City council looking at raising taxi fares as well due to HST

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Charlottetown

Charlottetown City Council struck down a motion Monday to raise metered parking rates to $1.25 per hour, but it's still going to cost more to park downtown.

Deputy Mayor Stu MacFadyen said council is required to pass two resolutions allowing parking rates and taxi fares to increase.

"HST is coming in and we have to put that cost into the parking meters," said MacFadyen after the March monthly council meeting.

"We were going to put it up to $1.25, thinking that the machines would not take a dime, but they have told us that the machines will take a dime so we will put the price at $1.10 (per hour), HST included," he said.

The parking-meter rate increase comes into effect April 1.

Council also worked on advancing legislation to allow taxi fares to increase, also to accommodate the HST. That resolution requires one more vote in council to come into effect.

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  • Username
    Fed up
    - March 25, 2013 at 08:55:00

    Way to encourage parking downtown. Take a lesson from thriving Summerside. Get rid of the meters! Then we might shop downtown. If Ghiz keeps sending his employees out of the capital city, we won't worry about parking. No one to shop. We don't shop there now. Meters cost too much

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  • Username
    Good
    - March 16, 2013 at 21:04:11

    Good news. Government employees should also be charged for parking in the lot next to Victoria Park. All money earned should go into public transit. That how it's done in the modern world.

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  • Username
    Gerard W.
    - March 16, 2013 at 12:29:25

    Don't care what they do, We don't shop downtown anyway.

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  • Username
    Goodness, you can HST parkin'
    - March 16, 2013 at 11:34:18

    I agree, with Free Parkin'. When I was young we did all kinds of parkin' and it never cost us a darn cent. And now they're goin to lay the HST even on that! Down right immoral, if you ask me, down right immoral. It's no darn wonder we need more immigration and there's reclining 'rollment in our schools!

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    Henry Sow
    - March 16, 2013 at 09:16:43

    Maybe by raising the parking rates, the city will be able to replace the 15 watt bulbs in their street lights. Downtown Charlottetown must be the darkest downtown I have ever been in. It's not safe for pedestrians to walk in downtown at night. The City should be ashamed of itself being our capital, with such poor infrastructure.

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    bitter islander
    - March 15, 2013 at 20:41:16

    if your charging hst on parking i wnat to see the tax on paper that you send to the federal government or is it just an excuse to raise the price i want proof that the tax is going to government and i will get proof at years end so be for warned you better be paying the tax collected

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  • Username
    Free Parking for Everybody . . .
    - March 15, 2013 at 15:35:21

    Gee, I've been parking for years to watch the submarine races at Victoria Park. You mean they're going to charge for that now? What's the world coming to?

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  • Username
    HOTEL ILLNESS
    - March 15, 2013 at 15:26:17

    They can raise the cost as much as they want because I never set foot or park in downtown Charlottetown.Between trucks constantly loading or unloading & those idiots who double park with their 4-ways flashing thinking that gives them special permission & people playing hide 'n seek while jay walking who needs it ! All the metered parking spots are taken by those who work downtown anyway. Just check out the empty buildings corner of Kent & University,looks like war zone.WHY would you ever go downtown ?

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    • Username
      Christine
      - March 16, 2013 at 02:08:10

      Maybe you want to go downtown because you live there! and from what I have seen people have only j walked when their is no cars around so who cares.

  • Username
    RG
    - March 15, 2013 at 14:43:50

    Raise taxi fares? They gouge me enough as it is. If 2 people take a cab and have 2 different stops that are about a block apart, they charge full price for both people as if they had to drive there twice. If you question it, they just say "that's the price, sorry". It's also ridiculous how I can go from Winsloe to downtown by myself for $9, but if I want to go to Walmart which is about a 5 minute drive and it's the same price. If they want to control taxi fares, at least get meters so the driver can't just decide random prices whenever they feel like it.

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    • Username
      taxi driver
      - March 16, 2013 at 00:08:59

      Thank you!! some of us are honest and providing proof of the price is something I fully support. If the two are friends riding together, it's just a dollar an extra person, they can split their own money to pay for it. If it's two people who don't know each other and are doubling up because it's busy, it's the same as two separate fares, just killing two birds with one stone.

  • Username
    there is no more beer here -so there
    - March 15, 2013 at 13:47:47

    since the bootleggers moved and the good stores died there's no reason to go downtown

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  • Username
    maritimer
    - March 15, 2013 at 13:35:13

    i don't live in PEI but this tax hike and then now hiking up the parking meters and taxi fares. Come on really? NB has higher taxi fares and group fees that allot of people now days cant even afford to take a cab now. We pay enough as it is no matter which community we are from.

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  • Username
    Liberal dongs
    - March 15, 2013 at 13:23:59

    The parking increase is just the start of all the gouging that will take place,I hope the treasury will fill his pockets with the HST...when the last election was in full swing it was announced no HST I'm still shaking my head along with all the other taxpayers,I wonder what the liberal moto will be next election,what ever their moto (slogan) will be it will be a laughing matter.

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  • Username
    why not...
    - March 15, 2013 at 12:44:35

    ..with all the parking tickets that get issued just suck it up and lower the cost of the meter plus the hst to equal a $1.00 that way the city would save time and money in reconfiguring all the meters. And if that is too much to ask, I am curious now as to how much time will show on the meter if someone does not pay the HST on the 2 hour parking?

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  • Username
    TO -THANKS
    - March 15, 2013 at 11:55:06

    TO THANKS................the exact comment I had in mind.

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  • Username
    Huh
    - March 15, 2013 at 10:40:41

    Maybe City Council should take home the manual about how the parking meters work, Sounds like they could all learn a few things.

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  • Username
    pingu
    - March 15, 2013 at 10:33:50

    Time to raise taxes on those monster parking lots beside the boxstores to discourage their construction and provide and even playing field with the downtown. How much are they taxed per square foot/meter?

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  • Username
    Tax Accountant
    - March 15, 2013 at 10:28:55

    This is how HST benefits people of PEI... Wait till it kick-in on April 1st. 25% increase in parking will follow by 15-25% increase in all other services prices for consumers.

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  • Username
    Thanks
    - March 15, 2013 at 10:27:21

    Another reason not to go down town way to go

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    • Username
      huh
      - March 15, 2013 at 11:21:33

      It went up a dime. Is anyone really going to choose not to go downtown over a dime?

  • Username
    Treaus
    - March 15, 2013 at 10:05:22

    "...thinking that the machines would not take a dime..." Good to know that the people who make decisions about how much our meters should cost don't even know what coinage can go into them. And we're blaming the HST for the increase, after all of them trumpeted its benefits. Let the blame game begin.

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    • Username
      Dundas Sue
      - March 15, 2013 at 12:07:50

      it would be a safe assumption that they would not ! I think I tried once and the five cent did not register so I did not try with the two tens

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