Port Moody introducing pay parking in 5 areas including Rocky Point Park

Drivers successful Port Moody will person to unfastened their wallets to parkland successful respective areas successful nan community, starting this year.

The City of Port Moody says it will beryllium implementing salary parking astatine 5 celebrated spots successful an effort to modulate parking space.

The extremity is to amended nan turnover of parking spaces for accrued readiness for those wishing to sojourn nan areas.

The metropolis will beryllium introducing salary parking successful 5 areas:

• Rocky Point Park parking lots
• Esplanade Avenue from Rocky Point Park to Murray Street
• Murray Street from Columbia Street to Williams Street (not including nan Rocky Point Park Off-Leash Dog Park parking lot)
• Suter Brook Village: commercialized parking connected Morrisey Street and Suter Brook Way; and Capilano Rd betwixt Morrissey Rd and nan commencement of nan bridge
• Ungless Way from Noons Creek Drive to Guildford Way

Fees will beryllium $2.50 per hr successful nan summertime and $1.50 per hr successful nan debased season.

The metropolis said nan caller salary parking will besides promote people, particularly locals, to time off their vehicles astatine home.

Revenue generated from parking fees will spell towards covering operational costs for nan parking strategy and “other metropolis services.”

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The metropolis said nan salary parking has been successful nan useful for rather immoderate time, arsenic nan thought began successful May 2023. Initially, salary parking was projected successful a one-year proceedings astatine 4 locations.

Although that did not pass, metropolis unit were directed to investigation salary parking astatine prime areas to push nan programme forward.

Currently, nan metropolis is moving pinch a vendor to create nan salary parking system.

The salary parking is group to statesman successful September.