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Canada Post needs to specifically instruct its employees to not stop their delivery trucks in Ottawa’s bike lanes, Mayor Jim Watson says in a new letter to the corporation’s chief executive.
Last week, after a Toronto parking-enforcement officer said publicly that Canada Post drivers are the worst offenders in his city for parking in bike lanes where no stopping is allowed, the mail service publicly ordered its workers to stop it. Find someplace safe and legal to park or bring parcels back to your depot if you can’t, the instruction said.
But the order was specific to Toronto. It took more than a day, and inquiries from multiple media outlets, before Canada Post spokesman Jon Hamilton said in a three-line reply that of course postal workers are supposed to obey the local traffic and parking laws everywhere in the country. If customers have complaints, he said, please let us know.
That’s good, says a letter co-signed by Watson and Coun. Keith Egli, who chairs city council’s transportation committee, but it’s not enough.
“The City of Ottawa is formally requesting that an official statement be made similar to the one issued to your Toronto-based employees here in Ottawa to Canada Post employees,” the letter says. “The City further requests official assurance that your employees are aware that obstructing cycling lanes is always dangerous and not an acceptable practice.”
Besides being illegal, the politicians say, parking trucks in bike lanes forces cyclists into mixed traffic in places where the city has specifically added lanes to keep them safer. “Additionally, when a Canada Post vehicle obstructs a cycling lane it further exacerbates traffic congestion, particularly in the downtown core, and is contrary to the City’s public policy goal of providing a safe city-wide cycling ecosystem,” the letter goes on.
The letter, dated Wednesday, asks for a response and says the city will be happy to work with Canada Post “as good neighbours.”
As of last week, the city said its officers had issued 182 tickets for parking in Ottawa bike lanes this year but it doesn’t keep a ready breakdown of the people or companies to which they’ve been issued.
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Last week, after a Toronto parking-enforcement officer said publicly that Canada Post drivers are the worst offenders in his city for parking in bike lanes where no stopping is allowed, the mail service publicly ordered its workers to stop it. Find someplace safe and legal to park or bring parcels back to your depot if you can’t, the instruction said.
But the order was specific to Toronto. It took more than a day, and inquiries from multiple media outlets, before Canada Post spokesman Jon Hamilton said in a three-line reply that of course postal workers are supposed to obey the local traffic and parking laws everywhere in the country. If customers have complaints, he said, please let us know.
That’s good, says a letter co-signed by Watson and Coun. Keith Egli, who chairs city council’s transportation committee, but it’s not enough.
“The City of Ottawa is formally requesting that an official statement be made similar to the one issued to your Toronto-based employees here in Ottawa to Canada Post employees,” the letter says. “The City further requests official assurance that your employees are aware that obstructing cycling lanes is always dangerous and not an acceptable practice.”
Besides being illegal, the politicians say, parking trucks in bike lanes forces cyclists into mixed traffic in places where the city has specifically added lanes to keep them safer. “Additionally, when a Canada Post vehicle obstructs a cycling lane it further exacerbates traffic congestion, particularly in the downtown core, and is contrary to the City’s public policy goal of providing a safe city-wide cycling ecosystem,” the letter goes on.
The letter, dated Wednesday, asks for a response and says the city will be happy to work with Canada Post “as good neighbours.”
As of last week, the city said its officers had issued 182 tickets for parking in Ottawa bike lanes this year but it doesn’t keep a ready breakdown of the people or companies to which they’ve been issued.
dreevely@postmedia.com
twitter.com/davidreevely
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