Expand the capacity of park-and-ride centres located upstream from congestion points by promoting underground garages incorporated into buildings.
Work with owners of shopping centres and institutions to permit the use of their parking lots by public transit users or other targeted clients.
Complete an exhaustive study of ways to decrease the quantity of the City's parking supply.
Develop and implement the City's Politique de stationnement (Parking Policy).

Parking policy

The Ville de Montr�al has undertaken the production of a Transport Plan, slated for adoption in 2005. One of its elements will be a Politique de stationnement (Parking Policy), which will contain the following actions:

City-wide actions:

Strictly enforce existing by-laws, especially the obligation to keep a clear lane leading to each parking space.
Require an annual operating permit and charge a fee for it.
Adequately landscape off-street outdoor parking lots.
Increase the rates of parking meters.
Review the policy prohibiting on-street parking on certain streets during morning and afternoon rush hour. This change in policy would increase the availability of short-term, on-street parking in Montr�al's Centre. It would also enable residents of the Centre to park their cars close to their homes.
Simplify on-street parking regulations in residential areas.

Actions favouring the consolidation of the Centre (see Objective 7):

Gradually eliminate commercial off-street outdoor parking lots, by implementing the following recommendations:

issuing new permits for off-street outdoor parking lots;
Eliminate illegal parking lots;
Increase the surtax on commercial off-street outdoor parking lots.