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Article: Finding fixes for fines to fund
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- Winnipeg Free Press
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- July 13, 2009
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City weighs best uses for parking revenues
How would you feel if that parking fine you grudgingly paid last week was used to help attract a new commercial development to downtown Winnipeg? Or to help pay for free bus passes for anyone who works downtown, or to repair a crumbling sidewalk?
Those are some of the creative ways that fines and other parking revenues are being used to stimulate downtown development and fund green transportation initiatives in other North American cities.
And they're options the Winnipeg Parking Authority (WPA) is keen to explore as it strives over the next few years to develop a new downtown parking strategy for Winnipeg.
WPA chief operating officer David Hill ...