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[url]http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-parking-ban-breaks-rules-1.3360834[/url]
[quote=CBC]Thousands of Winnipeggers have been wrongly ticketed by the city's winter parking ban since 2011 — and no one's getting any refunds.
A recent court challenge made the City of Winnipeg realize it has been breaking the rules of the provincial Highway Traffic Act.
Under the Know Your Zone program, introduced in 2011, parking bans were in place for 12 hours on residential streets, either from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. or 7 p.m. until 7 a.m., depending on when plows were scheduled to go through a neighbourhood.
It was up to the public to know what zone they were in and when it would be plowed. The city advertised on TV and radio and posted the zones online, but there were no signs on any streets.
The Highway Traffic Act, however, only permits tickets without proper signage to be issued from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.
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The city said it will no longer pursue collection on outstanding tickets from previous winter parking bans. However, those who paid tickets that would now be deemed illegal are out of luck.
"If payment has been made, refunds are not possible because legally, the matter is considered settled," the city states on its website.
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[B]Class action lawsuit[/B]
Todd Dube, founder of the traffic-ticket-fighting group Wise Up Winnipeg, said he will launch a class action suit against the city if it doesn't offer refunds to wrongly ticketed drivers.
He estimates the city owes about $10 million.
Between 2012 and 2014, the city issued nearly 25,000 residential parking ban tickets during declared snow clearing operations, according to data from the Winnipeg Parking Authority.
Of those, 75 per cent were issued between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. — an enforcement time-frame the city now says was not permitted.[/quote]
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