Occupant restraints are the focus for the City's Selected Traffic Enforcement Program.

By Emily Keller

enforcement services

Occupant restraints and residential parking focuses of this month’s BEEP/STEP

Mar 8, 2020 | 7:00 AM

For the month of March, City Enforcement Services will be focused on occupant restraints for its Selected Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP).

Any person 16 years of age or older is responsible for wearing a seatbelt.

Sergeant Ross Gear with Enforcement Services, says seatbelts are very important, but so are booster seats for children up to the age of six, or less than 18 kilograms.

“Studies have shown that if there is a collision, and again unfortunately if there is a collision, that the chance of the child being injured greatly reduces if they’re in a booster seat. So, it’s a very good piece of equipment, it’s very easy to use.”

The fine for not wearing a seatbelt or using a car seat or booster seat is $155.

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For March’s Bylaw Enforcement Education Program (BEEP), the focus is on residential parking.

Sergeant Gear says one of the biggest problems he sees is when vehicles are parked within five metres of a crosswalk, which is not allowed.

“It gives drivers a much better sightline to see a pedestrian if a pedestrian has to come out. If they’re parked right up to the crosswalk, then a pedestrian has to really go a lot further out into the roadway before a motorist might see them, and so that sightline is very important.”

Enforcement services says the most common offences seen in Grande Prairie include parking:

• in an area signed as ‘no parking’ or ‘no stopping’
• on the wrong side of the street (on a two-way street)
• on the sidewalk
• within 1.5 meters of a vehicle access to a garage, private road, driveway or vehicle crossway over a sidewalk
• blocking an alleyway

The fine for most parking offences is $68.