This means that vehicles can no longer be parked there indefinitely and free of charge on public roads. There is an exception for residents with their own vehicles. You can buy the so-called parking sticker and are exempt from the time limit.
Quite a few have already done so: so far there have been 112,500 applications for the sticker, as a spokesman for the responsible city councilor Ulli Sima (SPÖ) told the APA on Monday. For ten euros per month, they receive a sticker that allows them to park their car anywhere in the district. Viennese residents who do not own their own vehicle and use car sharing models or rental vehicles are exempt from this.
Like those people who do not live in the district, they also have to buy parking tickets and stick to the parking times. The costs range from EUR 1.10 (30 minutes) to EUR 4.40 for a maximum duration of 120 minutes. If you exceed the time, it becomes significantly more expensive: A ticket costs 36 euros.
There are also overlapping areas between the districts, but in principle car owners are only allowed to park their vehicles indefinitely in their own residential district. A few streets, such as in industrial areas, will not become short-term parking zones. In the rest of the city, this will apply uniformly everywhere in the future, with a maximum parking time of two hours. The period was set at 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. So far there have been differences.
Parking space management is new in Liesing, Donaustadt, in Floridsdorf and in Hietzing. Simmering will become a full park sticker district after a short-term parking zone has already been enacted in some areas. The city is hiring around 250 new employees in order to be able to look after the new areas of the expanded parking space management. So far, 600 parking space surveillance bodies have been deployed.
Vienna always emphasizes that the income from parking space management flows directly into the expansion of public transport. Commuters who do not use public transport are recommended to use Park & Ride facilities.
The model of comprehensive short-term parking zones was first tested in Vienna in 1993, specifically in the inner city. Since then, it has been successively expanded – also because car users without parking authorization have switched to those districts in which unlimited parking is still possible. Most recently, 2019 was Döbling’s turn.
Source: Nachrichten
