2005-06-13 11:09 | fche blog politics idle greed
The same gang running Toronto’s municipal government that has recently instructed parking fines to be increased and enforcement tightened, has just told their staff to start enforcing the anti-idling bylaw.
Out of one side of their mouth, they announce an extreme heat alert. Out of the other side, out comes “... but if you idle to keep cool in your car, you’ll pay!”, never mind the explicit exception of “inclement weather” in the by-law. If one recognizes the greed and galling anti-car bias of these people, the contradiction makes its own kind of sense.
UPDATE 06-14. Some sanity is prevailing on the enforcement side: apparently they issue only “warnings” once the outside temperature reaches 27 C.