Hey guys this is my second time posting. A while back actually about 5 month ago I got a ticket for proceeding contrary to sign at intersection 144(9). When the officer was asking me for my insurance and drivers license, i did not have the new insurance slip, 
thus he also gave me a ticket for…
Hello all
(simon or anyone else can feel free to answer)
I requested disclosure of a radar manual in original disclosure request. Didn't get disclosure until trial date, so an adjournment was granted. At that time the Provincial Prosecutor stated that it wasn't his policy to release the manual to…
so last night i was driving home at around 1am
i was going 120 in a 100 when a car started tailgating me (almost bumper to bumper)
i sped up in order to put some distance between us but it wouldnt leave me alone for over 10 minutes.
i was exhausted and not paying attention to my speed guage i ended up…
Hey folks. New forumer here.
Just curious to hear a few opinions on the following video taken at a photo enforced intersection.
As you can see, the light was still yellow for a fraction of a second as the camera-car entered the intersection (crossed the stop line), but it was close.
I drive a Honda Civic and we all know how those are when it comes to theft. On my driveway my brothers car was stolen twice and once broken in to. Also a few other cars have been stolen on my street. I have an alarm and all that. But say my alarm was going off and I ran outside and fought off the…
Hello all, yesterday I received a ticket for parking in a handicapped spot outside of school. I was done classes and had to load up my van with some very heavy and awkward items for transport. I had been parked in the garage across the street for the duration of my classes and decided to bring…
Sometimes I find plain simple English not quite so simple:
Green arrow(14) Every driver approaching a traffic control signal showing one or more green arrow indications only or in combination with a circular red or circular amber indication and facing the indication may proceed only to follow the…
Hi, recently I was driving home around 2:30pm from the bus stop I drive to in order to bus to school. I was traveling down Kennedy just past 19th seatbelt on, doing the speed limit. About one and a half kilometers past the intersection of Kennedy and 19th a fox sprinted across the road. I swerved…
Is this a fire route?
http://tinypic.com/r/2w1s844/5
Does anyone know for sure what those curved yellow enclosings at the side of of a row of parked cars are there for? If it indicates that it is part of the private property of the goodlife fitness center then was the parking enforcement officer wrong in issueing me a $250 fine for parking in a fire route? Are they allowed to issue parking tickets in private properties without the owners consent?
Re: Is this a fire route?
I think the curved yellow line is there simply to keep people from driving too close to the last parking space in the row. As for the parking ticket, parking enforcement can come on to private property without the owners permission to enforce handicapped space and fire route violations. That having been said it is unusual for them to proactively patrol a private parking lot so I think it is very likely that somebody called in a complaint.
Re: Is this a fire route?
If yellow lines on the pavement means no passing then it shouldn't be considered as part of a route, therefore it can't possibly be part of the fire route. Also i took pictures from all angles around that parking location and there are no visible fire route signs. There are signs in the area just not visible from that specific location. If i take this to trial, given the fact that it is private property, my car was contained within the lines of the designated parking lot and the lack of fire route signs what are my chances of getting off of this charge?
Re: Is this a fire route?
"If yellow lines on the pavement means no passing"
They don't, especially not in a parking lot. You weren't in a parking space, therefore you were encroaching on the fire route. Same as if you parked on the sidewalk in front of a fire route - just because you are out of the "roadway" does not mean you are not blocking a fire route.
Re: Is this a fire route?
It wasn't a parking space but it also wasn't a place that cars drive through. Fire routes are roads that vehicles drive through but are not allowed to park on. The point I'm trying to make is the strip of land is not a place meant for cars to drive through. The yellow lines were there to prevent cars from driving too close to the parked cars. If its not meant to be driven on how can it be a fire route. If I drove over the curb and parked on the grass it wouldn't be part of the fire route even though its not in a parking space because the fire truck wouldn't be driving through the grass. My car wasn't obstructing the path the fire truck would be driving through.
Re: Is this a fire route?
what if the yellow lines are there to deter vehicles from parking there as well?
i would check to see if that strip is a designated fire route, by looking at that city's by-law
ex: http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/municode/1184_880.pdf
i worked at 103 The Queensway, and they have Fire Route signs erected in many places but MLEOs couldn't issue the $100 fine, they could only do the $30 Private Parking fine... because City Council hadn't amended the by-law to designate that location as a Fire Route
having said that, i guess fire trucks would just rear-end vehicles out of the way if they needed to
your defence that the sign was not visible sounds like it might valid; make sure you go through the proper procedure of taking & submitting pictures; maybe even schedule a first-attendance meeting and show the crown what you have and avoid trial altogether
