The city council of Toronto is meeting today to discuss and ultimately decide whether they should allow motorcycles and scooters to park for free.

One reason to allow free parking for these vehicles is to curb the problem of stolen parking receipts from motorcycles.

On the environment-friendly side, motorcycles and scooters create less pollution than their much bigger automobile friends. Therefore, the thinking is that if you allow free parking you will encourage people to use this type of vehicles rather than cars.

This may also help with the traffic problems in Toronto.

Another idea might be free public transit. Just a thought.

Update: Neil at Vespaway has pointed me to Parking Now! Parking Now! is:

the campaign for designated on-street and off-street parking for powered two wheeled vehicles (PTWs) — in other words, motorcycles and motorscooters — in New York City.

Looks like Toronto might be ahead of the game.