Canadian Bureaucrats Don't "Think Different" 427
owlgorithm writes "Apple's new store in Montreal has three parking meters on the street in front of it. The city is in the middle of a campaign to reduce downtown parking. In Apple's ever-conscientious attempt to improve design, they offered to reimburse the city for the parking meters and their revenue if the city would remove them. Answer: Non — because 'We've never done it before, so we can't.'"
they should hire a "genius" to feed the meters (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Have a store employee continually feed meters (Score:3, Funny)
The solution ... (Score:2, Funny)
Instead, go out and get pissed at the bars on Rue Crescent and Rue Bishop, and then close out the evening leering at peelers in one (or several) of Montreal's legendary tittie bars.
C'mon Apple, think outside the box a little.
Re:I don't quite get it.. (Score:5, Funny)
More Expensive than they Think. (Score:5, Funny)
Now that it's published, they had better hope they never get their way. Bill Gates will pay someone to park some nasty clunker right in front and do various offensive and repulsive things. If you don't believe me, just look at the posts around here.
Re:I don't quite get it.. (Score:5, Funny)
Hrm... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I don't quite get it.. (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, sorry, this is Canada..91.5 cm wall, 45.5 cm letters.
Re:You know it's a Slow newsday when ... (Score:5, Funny)
Posted anonymously.
Re:You know it's a Slow newsday when ... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I don't quite get it.. (Score:5, Funny)
Bureaucrats Don't "Think" (Score:2, Funny)
If only... (Score:2, Funny)
If only they had taken that attitude when they were first offered the chance to breathe.
Re:No parking, Metered parking, Free parking (Score:3, Funny)
from TFA:
That is, the author of the article is making some wild-ass guess about it. The Montreal Gazette is hardly a bastion of responsible journalism. Plus, he's obviously wrong - the city of Montreal never puts up one no-parking sign when 3 or 4 will suffice [perlypalms.com].
Besides all that, I fail to see how it would make much difference either way, given that the rue Sainte Catherine is already a parking lot most of the time.
Re:I don't quite get it.. (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps the first day. Then the subsequent 10 years after you go to work early to park your car there taking up the space from a potential apple customer.
Re:Sounds familiar... (Score:0, Funny)
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Re:Not really a quote (Score:4, Funny)
Not that I don't doubt your estimates, i'm sure a union city crew may cost $35,000 to remove the meters and repair the sidewalk. But based on observation they can be uprooted with enough force.
I wish it worked that way (Score:2, Funny)
Although...the highlander had to die first to become immortal.
I'd trust the highlander more than Canadians.
Re:I don't quite get it.. (Score:3, Funny)
Right... So removing the meters from in front of the Apple store and replacing them with "No Parking" signs is going to somehow reduce the opportunity to hand out tickets?
Are we talking about the same Montreal? I'm thinking of the one full of Quebecois motorists.
c.
Re:Not really a quote (Score:2, Funny)
And it is unlikely that they will move the meters to somewhere else. It is more likely that they would keep them in storage for a construction company to use in future sidewalk development.
Re:Translated Article Text (Score:5, Funny)
Pretty good, exactly. Sounds just like a Quebecker trying to speak english!