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Options expand for paying tickets
The City of Whitehorse is making it easier for you to pay your parking ticket by introducing an online payment option.
The City of Whitehorse is making it easier for you to pay your parking ticket by introducing an online payment option.
To pay your parking ticket online, visit www.whitehorse.ca/paynow and follow the instructions, the city said Tuesday.
Once your information has been entered, click on the “Proceed to Payment” button to be redirected to the city’s payment provider, Moneris, for a safe and secure transaction.
Expired meter penalties of $25 can still be reduced to $10 if paid within 24 hours or the next business day of the ticket being issued.
“It is important to note that the ticket payer is responsible for reducing their fine to $10 when making a payment,” the city noted.
“A customer service representative will contact you in the event of a payment discrepancy.”
Parking ticket payments can still be made in-person at city hall, by mail and by phone.
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HML on Jan 8, 2020 at 8:00 pm
Anie....I am senior myself and have no problem with computers, but know a lot of seniors that do not have any computers and are not interested. There is nothing wrong with being old, eventually everyone will get there.....I might be older than you.
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Yukoner on Jan 8, 2020 at 2:54 pm
In 1967 when I arrived in Yukon, there were no parking meters, no traffic lights, and wooden sidewalks. I bought a car at the Whitehorse Inn cafe for $20 to get to Ross River and rent a Beaver float plane to prospect north of Ross in Hesse country. Whitehorse today is a very, very, pale shadow of a once interesting place. I'd like to recommend a change of name to the City Mayor: " Dead Man's Elbow!"
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Anie on Jan 6, 2020 at 3:12 pm
HML why do you - and so many others - think that seniors are a bunch of doddering old fools stuck in the 1950s? Today's seniors are the people who introduced the computer to the workplace. I studied computers in school in 1966. As a senior, I resent your ageism.
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Montgomery Scott on Jan 5, 2020 at 10:40 pm
Janet P - I am waiting for the day when technology will allow law enforcement to automatically debit peoples accounts - People can receive automatic messages wherever they are at. For example, you could be at the register for Macs Fireweed and over your iPhone everyone will hear the following message:
YOU HAVE VIOLATED WHITEHORSE MUNICIPAL PARKING BYLAWS AND YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN DEBITED $25.00.
Fines could be incrementally punitive. For example, the first fine is $25, the second fine is $50 and so on. For the third infraction the driver could be suspended from parking downtown for 7 days in addition the $75 fine. This too could be summarized in the automated message - Built in shaming - Fun for the whole community!
Once transporters are available though we can all laugh about the Whitehorse Parking Games. We could even have a ceremony in which we place a parking metre, some coins and maybe even a City Bylaw Officer Uniform in a time capsule... Oh yes, don’t forget to include footage of all those YG workers doing the move your vehicle every 2 hours shuffle...
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Janet Patterson on Jan 5, 2020 at 9:15 am
What I am really looking forward to is a time when I can pay for my parking electronically. Having payment options up front would mean fewer parking tickets.
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Miles Epanhauser on Jan 4, 2020 at 2:06 pm
It's a good idea but I want it to be cost effective.
The city provides many good services but many are poor as well. The problem is that they do not listen and the most basic things are often ignored.
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HML on Jan 3, 2020 at 8:08 pm
not everyone has computer - especially seniors.
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Crunch on Jan 3, 2020 at 5:22 pm
I got a great idea, how about implementing a program which encourages residents to buy local without being stiffed by robo cops while they are spending money downtown. Great job COW in encouraging online shopping and annoying the hell out of people trying to run their everyday lives. There is not an innovative person in the whole lot of ya. I'll bet you could never figure it out.
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Apex Parasite on Jan 3, 2020 at 1:08 pm
@ valleygirl
Programs cost money from inception to implementation.
Monitoring the program for compliance costs money.
Compiling information and adding bodies into the program costs money.
Ensuring that they are actually doing the work, are doing the work adequately and are actually showing up takes an overseeing body of some sort. This costs money.
Lines of communication have to be created to allow all the above to happen and that all departments are in the loop. More money.
By the time the 25.00 ticket has been worked off it has probably cost us collectively at least ten times that.
Sometimes simple answers are anything but simple.
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Valleygirl on Jan 2, 2020 at 6:21 pm
COW should implement a community service type program to pay off parking tickets. $25 parking ticket = 1.5 hours cleaning at CGC or shovelling some of the horrible sidewalks ....
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Simon on Jan 2, 2020 at 3:40 pm
FINALLY. I've got a few parking tickets in my time and it's always been such a hassle to stay downtown, find/pay for parking, wait in line and hopefully get to the City before they close for the day, or do it all again tomorrow. This is so much more convenient.
Both City of Whitehorse and Government of Yukon need many, many more online services. Right now their options are pretty limited.