Street Cleaning

While street cleaning makes sense for a main street such as Centre. It doesn't as much for a secondary road and even less for a tertiary road. I'm not saying that the secondary or tertiary roads don't need street cleaining. But even those could have the regularity cut back to maybe even once a month, depending on the size of the street. My comments are more around the towing associated with street cleaning. Towing seems to be ridiculous for street cleaning on a secondary or tertiary road. It also is arbitrary as they don't always tow. So one person gets the fine for parking during street cleaning while another person gets the fine PLUS the tow cost. Towing on secondary or tertiary streets should only be for a car with excessive unpaid fines (which can be looked up at the time of writing the new ticket), emergency or abandonment. Not for street cleaning.

Wasn't there a bill by Councillor Linehan that would increase the fines for street cleaning from 40 to 100 and eliminate the need for towing? This would meet the requirement of making it a pretty severe penalty and serve the purpose as a motivation for not parking during street cleaning. What happened to that bill/proprosal?

Also, how much does the city make off of the towing? It seems the private tow lots are the ones benefiting from the towing, not the city and definitely not the consitutents.

Currently the system seems to be more focused on ticketing/towing (revenue) than actually providing a service to the citizens of the neighborhood.