The Midtown Pay Parking region is an area where public parking is charged. It mainly covers the centre and crucial streets, and until late it could only be established in cities with a population of over 100,000 inhabitants. But now it will change. The Sejm has just adopted a fresh law, which will importantly affect traffic in tourist, smaller towns.
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When can parking be paid? crucial change in legislation
On Friday, the Sejm adopted a proposal to amend Article 13b(2a) of the Public Roads Act, designed by Members of the civilian Coalition, 3rd Road and Left. It was initially as follows:
The intra-urban paid parking region shall be established in the areas of an intensive urban construction group which constitutes the actual centre of the city or territory if the conditions referred to in paragraph 2 are met and the establishment of a paid parking area may not be adequate to implement local transport or environmental policy
- read the bill. As stated on the right.pl website, an amendment was added in the Sejm to let the creation of urban areas of paid parking besides in spa towns and with spa protection areas that have no defined area of the city centre. It means the end of free parking in specified locations.
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Paid parking area: price list. specified amounts are provided for in the provisions
The project's authors justified their decision by the fact that smaller cities, especially tourist ones, have long struggled with the problem of crowds of visitors. They mostly decision cars, which at the top of the period are very much. For this reason, they park even in undesignated places. This is the biggest problem for residents who gotta deal with abrupt traffic.
The drivers in the city centres usage all free part of space to park, destroying urban green and damaging the historical urban fabric. specified a advanced volume of traffic is besides crucial environmental pollution, related to the emissions of automotive exhaust and noise
- written in the justification for the project. It is besides worth noting that a halt in the downtown area of paid parking can be very expensive. According to Article 13b of the Public Roads Act, the first hr of parking of a vehicle must not exceed:
in the area of paid parking - 0.15 per cent of the minimum wage for work,
in the urban area of paid parking - 0.45 percent of the minimum wage for work.
As of 1 January 2025, the minimum wage in Poland is PLN 4666 gross. This means that in the paid parking region the maximum fee may be PLN 6.99 and in the mid-urban paid parking area as much as PLN 21.
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