The Toronto Way, Part 2: Parking

Ample Parking, 35 Charles Street, Toronto, 15 December 2007

The Toronto Way is not limited to badly-erected menorahs. Oh, no. In Toronto, if you need to park you just… park. Anywhere you damn well please. A no-parking zone? Check. A bike lane? Check. A sidewalk? Check. And, if you’re really superimportant, you can park, as illustrated above, on a pedestrian concourse where children merrily play.

To get there you need to verrrry carefully drive up over a curb, over the sidewalk, between planters and an exhaust vent, over a wheelchair ramp and past any children or pedestrians who might be, oh, I dunno, using the fucking concourse for its proper, nonvehicular purpose.

More important than rules or common sense:
Ontario License AWDZ 859

Don’t worry about the police. As long as you’re not displaying an expired parking-meter ticket, you’ll be fine.