For normal vehicles, resident parking permits in Tübingen will cost 120 euros from next year. However, anyone who drives an SUV has to dig much deeper into their pockets.
Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg was the first city to adopt a drastic increase in parking fees. Owners of a normal car should pay 120 euros for a resident parking card in the university city from next year, as the city climate committee decided on Monday.
Drivers of heavy vehicles, so-called SUVs, on the other hand, should be asked to pay up to 180 euros. Those in need should receive discounts.
Palmer: Car subsidies have to stop
Mayor Boris Palmer (Greens) wrote on Facebook: “Subsidies for cars just have to stop.” Parking spaces in terms of construction, maintenance and space cost far more than the agreed 50 cents a day. Palmer sees the increase as a first step. He originally wanted to introduce parking fees that were twice as high, but failed at the local council.
Tübingen as a pioneer
This makes Tübingen the first city to use the option of setting fees for parking space itself. The parking fees were previously capped by law. Following the amendment to the Road Traffic Act in July, the federal states can now regulate their parking fees themselves or leave this to the municipalities.
As a city, Tübingen wants to be climate neutral by 2030, that is the declared goal, as the “Stuttgarter Nachrichten” summarizes. To achieve this, local transport must be massively expanded and made cheaper. The higher street parking fees help finance the reduction in bus fares.
According to “Stuttgarter Nachrichten”, other cities are also currently considering increases. Freiburg, for example, is aiming for an increase to 360 euros and is currently examining the conditions under which this is possible. The price increase will take effect there at the beginning of 2022 at the earliest.
Sources: , AFP
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