More than 50 anti-parking meter protesters stood in the downpour outside of City Hall for just over an hour yesterday as they awaited the outcome of City Council’s vote on the government’s direction that the metered parking by-laws be suspended for 90 days.
Representing just a small proportion of the usual contingent, the Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM) supporters broke off from their regularly scheduled Thursday protests in order to ensure that their stance that only a complete revocation of the contract for the project will be accepted did not momentarily escape the minds of the city’s councillors.
Shouts of “revoke!” resonated, intensified, and carried from the street to Council’s Chambers, where an
