Winnipeg, Canada - Winter overnight ban on arterials

Summary

The City of Winnipeg Canada combines a winter overnight parking ban for their arterial streets with a snowstorm-only overnight parking ban for residential areas.

1. Snow Route Overnight Parking Ban - affects designated arterial roadways every night during the Winter (2 am to 6 am). In Montpelier, a similar policy would mean that streets such as Main St., Elm St., Barre St., and State St. would prohibit parking every night.
2. Residential Area Overnight Parking Ban - this affects all residential streets but only overnight. It is declared and advertised through the media and a hotline phone.
3. Major Snowfall Parking Ban - this extends the hours on which parking is banned on Snow Routes to midnight to 6 am. It is also declared and advertised through the media and a hotline.
4. Temporary No Parking Ban - a particular street is signed as no parking, for massive snow removal. Montpelier currently does this via traffic cones / signs when snow has built up during the snow season, when the DPW brings in dump trucks.

The City also has an email notification system.

Public Outreach

Here's their website with full details: http://www.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/ParkingBans/Parking_Bans.asp

Ordinance

OVERNIGHT PARKING PROHIBITION ON STREETS BEARING “SNOW ROUTE” SIGNS

29. No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle on a street bearing signs of the type specified and approved by Order No. 21/78 of the Highway Traffic Board (hereinafter referred to as “Snow Route” signs) between the hours of 02:00 and 06:00 of any day during the months of December, January and February.
amended 6288/93

PARKING PROHIBITIONS ON MAJOR SNOW ROUTES

29.1 (1) Where reasonably required in order to facilitate the removal of snow from streets bearing snow route signs, the Director may make a declaration prohibit standing, stopping or parking a vehicle between the hours of 00:00 and 06:00 on streets bearing a snow route sign for a period of time specified in the declaration. amended 86/2005

(2) Where the prohibition referred to in Subsection (1) is declared, the Director shall make, or cause to be made, a record of the time and date of such declaration, and forthwith file a “Declaration of Implementation of Parking Prohibition on Snow

Routes” at the Office of the City Clerk, Main Floor, Council Building, 510 Main Street, Winnipeg and inform the general public by issuing for immediate release, a communiqué to the media specifying the period during which the prohibition is in effect. added 6288/93

(3) No person may stand, stop or park a vehicle on a street bearing a snow route sign where a declaration made under subsection (1) is in effect. added 86/2005

PARKING PROHIBITION TO FACILITATE SNOW REMOVAL OPERATIONS ON STREETS NOT BEARING “SNOW REMOVAL” SIGNS

29.2 (1) No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle on a street not bearing “Snow Route” signs between the hours of 00:00 and 6:00 of any day where such stopping,

standing or parking has been declared by the Director to be prohibited.

(2) Where the prohibition referred to in Subsection (1) is declared, the Director shall make, or cause to be made, a record of the time and date of such declaration, and forthwith file a “Declaration of Implementation of Parking Prohibition on Residential Streets” at the Office of the City Clerk, Main Floor, Council Building, 510 Main Street, Winnipeg and inform the general public by issuing for immediate release, a communiqué to the media specifying the period during which the prohibition is in effect. added 6288/93