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Photos of Some the Dumbest M/C Parking Ideas dreamed up by the Vancouver City Council:

Everywhere in the civilized world you

Vancouver City Council had a good idea: to provide motorcycle/scooter parking spaces at the end of a row of curbside parking spaces. 2-wheelers loved them!

Then the Vancouver Vision council types decided that 2-wheelers are just another type of motor-vehicle and had to pay for parking, just like cars. So they ordered the installation of single parking meters for each group of motorbikes. How does this work?

No surprise: these green-topped parking meters (one meter for 5 motorbikes) don

Now the motorbike meter spaces are empty and losing money. Passing cars see the empty bike spaces and move in.

The motorbikes & scooters go back to the old way of parking - in between cars and behind dumpsters. This annoys the car drivers who sometimes bump into the bikes and knock them over.

Vancouver

Vancouver

Again, the scooters respond by moving out of the line of fire, and they start parking in privately-owned public spaces like this bicycle rack on private property.

2-wheelers can park legally on private property (with the owner

Vancouver

The streets of Olympic Village are neat and clean - not a motorbike in sight.

The City of Richmond came up with this idea for tormenting motorcyclists. Richmond