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Nearly every day someone is parked in a turn lane down at the town center.  
 
Today a black SUV parked right beside the no parking sign in front of the law office where staff come out ofthe parkade.  
 
I'm tired of it day after day after day so told him it was no parking.  
 
He said, "i can't drive when I'm on the phone, you stupid ****".  
 
Nice. Don't answer if there's nowhere to park.

Forgot to mention the other two areas are the right turn lane on princess going into town center. There's a school division office which people park in front of. Were all going to work & they just dead stop in front of us & turn off vehicle.  
 
Third is right turn lane in front of karlas/Zekes from Rosser onto 9th. People park in it all the time.  
 
If you're around those areas, keep a look out for the no parking zones, makes life a bit easierfor each other...thanks!

Was there a delivery truck waiting to unload something? If not then I really don't see the big deal. If someone pulls over to answer an important phone call, I really don't see the harm pulling over into a no parking area for 2 minutes, then be on his or her way...

was okay to pull over there. you said it was a "No Parking" sign and not a "no stopping" sign. As long as you are not shutting off your vehicle and leaving it, it is fine. A couple minutes is legal.

It is a no stopping sign.

Plenty of people turn off their vehicles and leave it sitting in the no stopping lane.

evrong said "was okay to pull over there. you said it was a "No Parking" sign and not a "no stopping" sign. As long as you are not shutting off your vehicle and leaving it, it is fine. A couple minutes is legal. "

Where is it written that it is legal? I just street viewed it and it has the no stopping sign from Citi financial to the town center turn. In front of the Citi financial is a no parking-loading zone. If your vehicle is not moving is it not parked? And if you are in the loading zone and sitting there without passengers or materials being loaded/unloaded is that not illegal too? Tried a quick google search and it brought up other bylaws of cities.  
 
This is from Vancouver  
No Stopping  
 
Section 3: Once your vehicle stops moving, it has stopped.  
 
Section 17.1: You cannot stop in a No Stopping zone for any reason, or any length of time.  
 
No Stopping signs are used in bus, taxi, commercial, tour bus, rush hour, special event, police, accessible parking, and temporary zones.  
 
No Parking  
Section 3: If your vehicle stops, and is not loading or unloading passengers, it is parked, whether it is occupied or not.  
 
Section 17.6A (a): You can stop in a No Parking zone for up to five minutes to load or unload passengers, or materials.  
 
Wouldn't Brandon be similar? To me no stopping is no stopping no matter if you engine is running or not.

Just be happy they are not talking on the cell phone while waiting for a train or at a red light or at a Tim Horton's drive thru (there's a story about that in Edmonton recently).  
 
Having said that, its probably illegal if its a no stopping area. Let the police or the city by law people deal with this.

I think the signage is the problem. The white line making the turn lane begins halfway and the sign is back at the start so people don't see it.  
 
Yes, people get tickets but like i said I've seen this for years and there's always someone new who hadn't got a ticket yet. Not really a solution lol.