parking

As neighbourhood populations become denser, parking becomes an issue for many. (Dan Ferguson/Langley Advance Times)

LETTER: Langley resident offers ideas to help solve some parking woes

Garages and driveways should be used for off-street parking, not storage

  • Mar 14, 2023

 

Share your opinion via email, through our website or in a posted letter. (Black Press Media files)

LETTER: Langley renter calls for permit parking

Homeowners often won’t provide parking space for renters and occupy street spots as well, writer said

  • Feb 6, 2023

 

Rene Payer is pleased that Township council has decided to stop cutting down trees in a Langley park to create a staff parking lot. (Langley Advance Times files)

Council halts tree cutting in Langley park

The Township had been adding parking spaces to the nearby Operations Centre

 

Colleen MacKinnon wrote a letter to the editor after her daughter, a nurse at Langley Memorial Hospital, found this note on her car after parking on a public street. (Special to the Langley Advance Times)

LETTER: Langley nurse chided about parking on public street

Pay parking for public and staff has resumed at Langley Memorial Hospital

  • Mar 19, 2022
Colleen MacKinnon wrote a letter to the editor after her daughter, a nurse at Langley Memorial Hospital, found this note on her car after parking on a public street. (Special to the Langley Advance Times)
Rene Payer is upset that trees have been cut down for a planned temporary parking lot in Old Yale Park. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)

Neighbours upset part of Murrayville park could become parking lot

Langley Township’s Operations Centre doesn’t have enough parking for staff

Rene Payer is upset that trees have been cut down for a planned temporary parking lot in Old Yale Park. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)
Parking will be free on weekdays along the White Rock waterfront when winter rates come into effect Nov. 1 (File photo)

Free weekday parking to return to White Rock waterfront Nov. 1

Off-season rates in effect until February, when city’s ‘shoulder season’ begins

Parking will be free on weekdays along the White Rock waterfront when winter rates come into effect Nov. 1 (File photo)
Only one lane of traffic at a time along 54th Avenue, other motorists have to stop or back up. (Langley Advance Times files)

LETTER – Please: Parking proportionate to people

Reader calls for common sense when planning for realistic future transportation needs in the City

  • Oct 24, 2021
Only one lane of traffic at a time along 54th Avenue, other motorists have to stop or back up. (Langley Advance Times files)
The Township of Langley Civic Facility. (Langley Advance Times files)

UPDATED: Fewer parking spots, but more wheelchair and bike parking planned for Langley Township

Council is considering a report that could change parking lot regulations

The Township of Langley Civic Facility. (Langley Advance Times files)
Have an opinion you’d like to share? Submit letters to the editor through our website, via email or the postal service. (Heather Colpitts/Black Press Media)

LETTER: Langley neighbourhoods need parking

Residents should have parking options near where they live, letter writer argues

  • Sep 22, 2021
Have an opinion you’d like to share? Submit letters to the editor through our website, via email or the postal service. (Heather Colpitts/Black Press Media)
A Fort Langley shopping plaza is the first location in the village to require paid parking. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)

Fort Langley shopping plaza switches to paid parking

Eric Woodward said the change was necessary given the scarcity of spots

A Fort Langley shopping plaza is the first location in the village to require paid parking. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)
Temporary signs warn people that the overflow parking lot at Walnut Grove Secondary will soon be locked at night – something causing distress for some nearby townhouse residents. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)

Residents worry over loss of parking lot as Walnut Grove school limits access

School officials said the changes are for increased safety after recent incidents

Temporary signs warn people that the overflow parking lot at Walnut Grove Secondary will soon be locked at night – something causing distress for some nearby townhouse residents. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)
An Armstrong woman, an amputee who lost her leg below her knee several years ago, says she was verbally and physically assaulted by a man who couldn’t see her disability as she tried to park in a handicap spot at Vernon’s Walmart Saturday, April 24. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)

Okanagan amputee assaulted over handicap parking spot

Armstrong woman with prosthetic leg says she was verbally attacked and spat on

An Armstrong woman, an amputee who lost her leg below her knee several years ago, says she was verbally and physically assaulted by a man who couldn’t see her disability as she tried to park in a handicap spot at Vernon’s Walmart Saturday, April 24. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)
It’s free to park at White Rock waterfront now through the end of January 2020. (File photo)

White Rock waterfront parking free this winter

City’s relaxation of fees will continue until Jan. 31

It’s free to park at White Rock waterfront now through the end of January 2020. (File photo)
Surrey and Abbotsford hospitals ‘targeted’ for pay parking profit, activist says

Surrey and Abbotsford hospitals ‘targeted’ for pay parking profit, activist says

John Buss, of HospitalPayParking.ca, says it’s ‘way out of whack’

Surrey and Abbotsford hospitals ‘targeted’ for pay parking profit, activist says
We already shut down Fraser Highway to car traffic several times a year – why not make it permanent? (Langley Advance Times files)

Painful Truth: Three ideas for Langley you’re going to hate

Radical surgery on the transit arteries of Langley

We already shut down Fraser Highway to car traffic several times a year – why not make it permanent? (Langley Advance Times files)
Painful Truth: To get to a public transit utopia, stop subsidizing parking
Painful Truth: To get to a public transit utopia, stop subsidizing parking
Gary Hee with the thousands of signatures he’s accumulated against paid parking at hospital emergency rooms. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)

Hospital parking fee fight goes from Langley to PNE to Ottawa

Gary Hee is gathering signatures near the Pacific National Exhibition

Gary Hee with the thousands of signatures he’s accumulated against paid parking at hospital emergency rooms. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)
LETTER: Langley man’s hospital parking fees petition garners more than 3,600 signatures

LETTER: Langley man’s hospital parking fees petition garners more than 3,600 signatures

The senior behind the petition is doubtful authorities will make changes to help patients.

  • Jul 24, 2019
LETTER: Langley man’s hospital parking fees petition garners more than 3,600 signatures
Gary Hee. File photo

Langley mayor to take up cause of ER parking fees with FHA

A local petition with more than 3,000 signatures is going to the Fraser Health Authority

  • Jun 11, 2019
Gary Hee. File photo
Fewer parking spaces planned for Langley Memorial

Fewer parking spaces planned for Langley Memorial

The rebuilt ER will likely mean fewer spaces, farther from the main entrance

Fewer parking spaces planned for Langley Memorial
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