Parking

CITY – Residents invited to give input into review of residential street parking

November 2, 2026 // 0 Comments

Residential street parking is coming under review and residents are being invited to give input. Engagement is being launched at LetsTalk.Kamloops.ca/ResidentialParking. The [Continue]

PARKING – Residents have a chance to try out new downtown machine options

January 7, 2026 // 2 Comments

The City is seeking residents’ help in selecting a new provider for pay parking services. Plans are to replace its existing pay parking infrastructure to improve [Continue]

LETTER – Free downtown parking is being hogged by store employees

December 1, 2025 // 0 Comments

Mel, have you tried parking downtown lately? With the current free parking, everyone who works downtown parks there. There is no room for people who wish to shop. I [Continue]

EDITORIAL – New parking rate plan feels like a City Hall money grab

August 21, 2025 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. DOWNTOWN SHOPPERS have had it pretty good for a long time. Aside from City Hall’s insistence that there’s adequate parking in the core [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – 10 things that will probably happen in 2014

January 3, 2025 // 0 Comments

The following column was published in the Kamloops Daily News on Jan. 2, 2014. Several of the predictions came true; others would hold true for 2025. SPEAKING OF LISTS. Which [Continue]

BEPPLE – Less parking and more housing makes perfect sense

June 16, 2021 // 3 Comments

IF YOU WANT to build new housing in Kamloops, don’t forget that parking is king. It doesn’t matter if the people living in the building don’t want [Continue]