Can I park here, and until when? Montréal's parking signs, decoded.
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Can I park here, and until when?
Independent app: Stationne does not represent any government entity and is not affiliated with the City of Montréal or the Agence de mobilité durable.
Stationne decodes Montréal's parking signs and colours every street side: allowed, no parking, paid — or hatched when the signs are not certain. Because a wrong answer is expensive, the app never guesses.
FOUR STATES, INCLUDING "UNCERTAIN"
More than 128,000 street sides across the island, rebuilt every morning from the City's open data. When a sign is ambiguous, a code is unknown, or a borough does not publish enough data, the segment stays hatched grey: read the sign yourself. That is the heart of the app.
FIND PARKING
Say how long you are staying — 30 minutes, 2 hours, until 9 a.m. tomorrow — and the app ranks the safe street sides within 500 m, never suggesting an uncertain one. One button to drive there. Suggestions are read aloud while you drive.
"I'M PARKED HERE"
You confirm the street side, always explicitly, because the rule changes from one side to the other. The app tracks the deadline live and warns you 30 minutes ahead, even with the screen locked.
TICKET FILE
Every parking creates a record that freezes what the app was showing: time, position, verdict, the segment's rules, the date of the City's data. Add a photo of the sign, export a PDF. If a ticket arrives, the facts are already there. Everything stays on your phone.
TOWING RISK
Three years of City tow records, attached to the street side: "185 in 3 years on this side, 60 of them during snow removal". High-risk sides fall back in the suggestions.
WINTER
The 126 municipal lots open for free during snow-loading operations — 8,143 spaces — ranked by distance, with each lot's schedule. "Move your car" alerts arrive with winter 2026-2027.
VERIFIED ON THE GROUND
One tap on "It's right" or "This is wrong", with a photo of the sign if you like. Segments confirmed by several people carry a badge. No correction is automatic: each one is reviewed by hand.
FREE, AND STATIONNE PLUS
The download is free. The whole map, the reports and the free snow-removal lots stay free, along with ten free segment sheets, once and for all — reopening a sheet you already read never counts.
Stationne Plus unlocks the rest: unlimited sheets, "Find parking", "I'm parked here" and its reminder, the ticket file, towing risk and reading aloud. Two weeks free, then CA$19.99 per year or CA$2.99 per month. The subscription renews automatically; cancel any time in Google Play.
PRIVACY
No account, no ads, no trackers. Your position never leaves your phone: rules are evaluated on the device, and the app works offline once your neighbourhood is loaded.
French and English, following your phone's language.
Posted signs always prevail. Stationne is a reading aid, not an authority.
OFFICIAL SOURCES
Open data from the City of Montréal and the Agence de mobilité durable (CC-BY 4.0):
• Parking signs: https://donnees.montreal.ca/dataset/stationnement-sur-rue-signalisation-courant
• Paid parking: https://donnees.montreal.ca/dataset/stationnements-municipaux-tarifes-sur-rue-et-hors-rue
• Snow-removal parking lots: https://donnees.montreal.ca/dataset/stationnements-deneigement
• Tow records: https://donnees.montreal.ca/dataset/remorquages-de-vehicules-genants
• Street sides (double geobase): https://donnees.montreal.ca/dataset/geobase-double
Rule decoding based on the work of Prkng (MIT).