Parking

LETTER – Confusion over Plaza Hotel lots adds to downtown parking woes

February 25, 2021 // 1 Comment

Dear Mr Rothenburger, I read your article on the Kamloops parking survey, and was wondering if you might be interested in our recent problem with parking on Victoria Street. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – What the City’s survey on parking management doesn’t say

February 18, 2021 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. PUBLIC FEEDBACK ON PARKING is underway after a delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Residents, whether they live in Kamloops or outside of [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Time may have come for paid parking on the North Shore

January 14, 2020 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IS IT TIME for paid parking on the Tranquille Road shopping corridor? Over the years, it’s been considered political suicide to even [Continue]

HEIGHTON – Why is parking such a hot button topic in Kamloops?

February 1, 2019 // 4 Comments

PARKING. IT’S A TOPIC WE LOVE TO DEBATE, discuss, dissect and study. The question for me is: Why is parking is such a hot button topic? Depending on who you talk to, [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Charge for overnight parking downtown? What’s next?

December 1, 2018 // 1 Comment

Not all ideas amount to anything, but without them nothing ever gets done THERE ARE HOPEFUL SIGNS from City council chambers. Rookies are sometimes afflicted by a bad case of [Continue]

Editorial — Put surcharge on parking and get new screens

August 21, 2014 // 5 Comments

THURSDAY MORNING EDITORIAL — So now, if you’re at the hair dresser’s and you’re running out of time at the parking kiosk, you can pull out your smartphone [Continue]