Montrealâs parking rates are both exaggerated and punitive. As parking spaces continue to be sacrificed to make way for the single lane streets, bike paths, parks and walking paths â the prices keep moving up. Some 4280 parking spots were removed from 2018 â 2020 for cyclist routes aline since the Plante administration came into power according to executive committee member Eric Alan Caldwell reported. 208 of them generating income for the city. 4072 did not. In Montreal 11,522 street parking spaces are free while 19528 are paid parking spaces
According to the Reseau dâEtalonnage municipal du Canada (REMC) Montreal earned $6,981 per paid parking space in 2019. Thatâs almost double Torontoâs average revenues of $3,543 per paid parking space according to the Toronto Parking Authorityâs Operating Budget notes. The Canadian median is $1,563. There are also the tickets. Confusing signage being one of the main culprits.