It Wouldn't Be A Delivery Truck.....

...without a stinkin' parking ticket on it.

Just the cost of doing business, I guess.

But does that cost take into account the cost to everyone tied up in traffic because of these jack a$$e$?

Here is Yonge just north of Bloor. Down to a single lane because of two of these guys.

The Shred It truck even has his orange pylons out so you know he's going to be a while! Inside shredding stuff.

So it's not bikes that cause the problems (relax, I'm not turning into some spandex butted, tree hugger - Note 1) it's these frickers!

They even park in the designated bike lanes.

Parking tickets aren't the solution - tow trucks are. Get the Meter Maids on their cells phones!

But incredibly, the Toronto Parking Enforcement Agency is our worst enemy.

Last year they were forced to finally release their "Parking Ticket Cancellation Guidelines"

As reported in the daily papers "The 18-page report details exemptions for fast-food delivery, taxicabs, disabled drivers and delivery vehicles, nursing agencies, tour buses, among others."

I say these are the guys causing the vast majority of the traffic tie ups on city streets. Except for maybe the disabled drivers and nursing agencies, get them out of here!

Laughably, one of the bureaucrats in the department was quoted as saying that the guidelines “were drafted in a manner that makes them perhaps not quite understandable to average members of the public." No poop, Poirot.

I hope the release of these guidelines might finally spur on a few changes.

This concludes my scheduled rant. You may resume what you were doing.

[Note 1: A women said that there is a certain age after which a man should not wear a Speedo. And that age is twelve.]