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The Toronto Parking Authority (TPA), commonly known as Green P for its green-colour branding, is a municipal
The TPA operates around 59,000 parking spaces divided into 3 categories – off-street parking lots and garages, on-street metered parking, and joint venture managed lots across Toronto.
21,000 of these spaces are located in over 300 off-street parking lots and garages, with the largest parking garage being the 2,027 space Toronto City Hall underground parking garage at Nathan Phillips Square. Parking lots that are operated by the Toronto Parking Authority are marked by green signs with their signature P in the middle, hence the name 'Green P' parking.
The TPA also manages and operates parking facilities under contract for the Toronto Transit Commission, with around 13,000 spaces located at 17 TTC stations across the city, including at new stations on the Line 1 Yonge–University#Toronto–York Spadina Subway Extension, Toronto York Spadina Subway Extension. The largest TTC parking lot is the combined parking lot for Finch station, Finch Station, with over 3,200 spaces.
The TPA operates and maintains Toronto's bicycle-sharing system, which is known as Bike Share Toronto. The TPA took over from Public Bike System Company (PBSC) in 2013, when they ran into financial difficulties. Since then, ridership has grown exponentially reaching 8 million rides, with the system now covering of the Greater Toronto Area with 6,850 bikes at 625 stations and 12,000 docking points.
parking
Parking is the act of stopping and disengaging a vehicle and leaving it unoccupied. Parking on one or both sides of a road is often permitted, though sometimes with restrictions. Some buildings have parking facilities for use of the buildings' ...
services company owned by the City of Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most pop ...
. The TPA was established in 1998 with the merger of parking operations in the area of the former Metropolitan Toronto. A municipal parking authority in the Old Toronto, pre-amalgamation City of Toronto was first set up in 1952, taking over management of parking from the police.
The TPA operates off-street parking lots and parking garages, on-street parking meter, metered parking, and Toronto's bicycle-sharing system, named Bike Share Toronto. It is one of the largest operators of municipal parking services in North America and is 100% self-sustaining through parking user fees and other sources, returning 75% of its annual net operating income to the municipal government of Toronto, City of Toronto, totaling $1.5 billion dollars since 1992.
Operations
The TPA operates around 59,000 parking spaces divided into 3 categories – off-street parking lots and garages, on-street metered parking, and joint venture managed lots across Toronto.
21,000 of these spaces are located in over 300 off-street parking lots and garages, with the largest parking garage being the 2,027 space Toronto City Hall underground parking garage at Nathan Phillips Square. Parking lots that are operated by the Toronto Parking Authority are marked by green signs with their signature P in the middle, hence the name 'Green P' parking.
The TPA also manages and operates parking facilities under contract for the Toronto Transit Commission, with around 13,000 spaces located at 17 TTC stations across the city, including at new stations on the Line 1 Yonge–University#Toronto–York Spadina Subway Extension, Toronto York Spadina Subway Extension. The largest TTC parking lot is the combined parking lot for Finch station, Finch Station, with over 3,200 spaces.
The TPA operates and maintains Toronto's bicycle-sharing system, which is known as Bike Share Toronto. The TPA took over from Public Bike System Company (PBSC) in 2013, when they ran into financial difficulties. Since then, ridership has grown exponentially reaching 8 million rides, with the system now covering of the Greater Toronto Area with 6,850 bikes at 625 stations and 12,000 docking points.
Enforcement
Enforcement of parking rules in TPA's lots is carried out by TPA's own parking enforcement officers. Customers who fail to pay, or who park for longer than the amount of time that they purchased, may be issued an official police tag for each parking violation.See also
* Bike Share Toronto – bike-sharing program run by TPAReferences
External links
* {{Authority control Municipal government of Toronto Parking companies Transport companies established in 1998 1998 establishments in Ontario Companies owned by municipalities of Canada