Downtown parking

EDITORIAL – Performing arts centre must include adequate parking nearby

January 25, 2024 // 9 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE DOWNTOWN PARKING PROBLEM won’t go away just because we want it to. The official line from City Hall a few years ago was that more [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Let’s call parking fees what they are – a money maker for City Hall

January 24, 2023 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. EVERY TIME City Hall brings up the issue of losing revenue from parking in downtown Kamloops I wonder about the oft-stated rationale for [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Free parking was a good reminder why we have paid parking

May 11, 2020 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT WAS NICE WHILE IT LASTED but free parking downtown is coming to an end because, quite simply, it didn’t work. City council will approve [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Delaying decision on Saturday parkade fees makes sense

November 28, 2019 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. KAMLOOPS CITY COUNCIL has been taking a beating lately, including from the Armchair Mayor, so it’s only fair to mention when it makes a [Continue]

BEPPLE – It’s time for fundamental change in how we think of parkades

November 27, 2019 // 1 Comment

PARKADES ARE SACRED in Kamloops. Or at least that’s what it seems like after this week’s vote on council. On Jan. 1, 2020, the City of Kamloops takes over the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – A city’s history of failure in dealing with parking problem

November 16, 2019 // 4 Comments

FOR A CITY SO CODEPENDENT on automobiles, Kamloops has a strange aversion to figuring out where to park them. When my grandfather bought one of Kamloops’ first motorized [Continue]