'On a daily basis, we handle here thousands of tickets for drivers, and we do negotiate with the city or the government many kinds of tickets. There's no way for me to fight it with the city or prove my case elsewhere unless I wanted to go to small claims court,' she said.īernard Levy-Soussan, a lawyer and founder of Montreal-based Ticket911.ca, says that’s a limitation of the car sharing service.

'And the thing is, Communauto gets charged the tickets by the city. So if no one else picks it up by the cut-off time, the last driver is on the hook for the bill.Īfter usage costs, processing fees and, of course, the tickets, she says her January invoice from the company was more than $1,200. Communauto rules don’t allow for drop-offs in restricted areas, even if parking is legal when you drop it off. In the end, she was served with a handful of parking tickets amounting to hundreds of dollars. So I think the anxiety of finding that out without actually knowing the extent of that was worse than getting hit with the invoice itself,' she said. 'I knew that I was parking around the same area for three months preceeding, so I knew that there was a good chance that there would be a lot of charges. But Del Fabbro said she only realized that when the first parking ticket arrived. Parking in the area is only available for part of the day and that makes it off-limits for the car-sharing platform. The average trip usually costs less than $20 dollars but what came after was a lot more than that. Lisa Del Fabbro used to take Communauto to work every day and park at a bustling intersection in Montreal’s Garment District. A Montreal woman is sharing a cautionary tale about car sharing after she got a Communauto bill worth hundreds of dollars.

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