Stopping / parking on the roadways around Pearson.

[ZR]

If you are planning to pick someone up at Pearson International Airport, you may want to be careful where you park.
Starting today, the airport will be issuing a $75 invoice to anyone stopped illegally on the roadways leading up to the airport’s terminals.
The invoices will be issued through the mail as part of the airport’s new “mobile payment notice program,” wherein two camera-equipped vehicles will be patrolling Pearson roadways and photographing the licence plates of any vehicles deemed to be parked illegally.

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While vehicles will still be allowed to pick up and drop off passengers in designated areas outside the terminals, the airport is now urging drivers to park in one of two designated “cell phone lots” to await a call from the person that they are picking up. Drivers can then proceed to the curbside area outside the terminals.
In a explanation posted to its website, Pearson International Airport said that the hope is to provide drivers with a safe place to wait while discouraging “the unsafe practice of parking on the roadsides around the terminals.”
The two cell phone lots can accommodate a total of 266 vehicles and will be free to use so long as drivers remain in their vehicles.

[RedSN]

They are going to make a fortune off this! Banking on the ignorance and self-entitlement of the general population.
Quick and easy, just snap a pic and send them the bill.


Why are they calling them "invoices"? Is this different than a "ticket"?

[stangstevers]

I ended up in the paid parking area by accident when looking for the cell parking lot... meh no big deal. But people parked on the side of the highway seemed to be doing a dangerous thing, when I drove by there were cops handing out tickets.

[ZR]

Not sure where peeps got the idea it was ok in the first place.
Looked for the cell lot a couple of times, be dammed if I can find it.

[RedSN]

yeah, not really well marked.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.6916868,-79.6164252,3a,53.6y,300.29h,85.58t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBLRKCZEDfAS5aM5W-qTvGA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.6949648,-79.6130232,3a,75y,135.46h,75.86t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svnChZ3G6gRCaU6QP0IibLw!2e0!7i1 3312!8i6656?hl=en

[ZR]

Lots of signs to paid parking, cell lot, not so much.

[92redragtop]

Been using the cell phone lot for a few years - great option for picking up at the airport. Was at Pearson last week and there were so many people parked dangerously on the shoulders or near non-shoulders.

[hsousa88]

I just wait at the gas station on eglington and martin grove

Never found the cell phone lots

[Quicksilver]

On approaching the terminals there is no mention of the cell phone lots. If you drive through arrivals and then head towards the exists, you'll see the cell phone lot signs. Easy to follow. When your "pickup" calls from the terminal, it's very easy to get back to either one.
Years ago there used to be a food truck sitting there with coffee and snacks, but I guess the airport decided against that.

[ZR]

Thanks for info Steve.

[Black Sheep]

Take airport Rd to the train term parking lot. Drive straight through, go through light,,,,and there it is.