What do bike lanes do to on-street parking, and what does that parking cost the city?
· Discussed by 10 people · 3 claims
Going ahead
Project parking inventories and parking-program accounts can show how many spaces each lane removed and what providing those spaces costs the City.
The parking inventory before and after each project, and what the on-street parking program costs the City, settle both sides.
People arguing in both directions raised this question, and every claim they made about it is checked, whichever way it points.
Where it came from
Taken from Yegscoop post on council's 2026-08-26 bike lane decision, read end to end. Every factual claim in it was extracted and merged, so this question is listed whatever became of it.
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The claims under it
Installing bike lanes takes away on-street parking from residents and businesses.
Discussed by 8 people
Holyrood and Idylwylde areas who are paying taxes for parking.
Willow Nuthatch C. · comment 177
loosing their parking?? What about their safety, or their kids safety having to find alternative parking that may require lugging kids and groceries a fair distance, or maybe just not being able to plug their vehicle for the winter.
Windy Porcupine C. · comment 210
taking away my street parking
Boreal Jackrabbit S. · comment 282
interfere with both parking
Bright Chickadee P. · comment 291
the loss of parking
Sunny Bluejay W. · comment 371
taking away parking from in front of someone's house.
Prairie Muskrat D. · comment 374
132 ave you lose alot of street parking
Snowy Waxwing K. · comment 395
on street parking is being taken away from tax paying residents.
Frosty Heron G. · comment 420
98% of the residents need parking!
Willow Nuthatch C. · comment 506
A business could not use its street for customer parking all summer, and the City had put up no parking signs.
Discussed by 1 person
Cannot use my street for my customers. All summer. Phoned city. We do not have parking signs there.
Copper Marmot R. · comment 501
Free on-street parking for vehicles is a subsidy paid for by taxpayers.
Discussed by 1 person
Subsidizing free parking for vehicles is a waste of mine.
Quiet Hare C. · comment 99