The parking machines in the center of Starnberg get a so-called bread roll button, which allows 30 minutes of free parking. If you want to park longer, you have to pay more right away. The retrofitting of the machines will take some time. Action is also required at the See train station.
Get Starnberg-Semmeln, a quick purchase, quickly pick up a prescription - drivers have had to pay parking fees in Starnberg for all these activities of less than 30 minutes. This has now come to an end at the decision of the city council - the bread roll is coming. A proposal from the town hall in November gave the impetus to this.
The parking fee regulation currently stipulates that 50 cents are due in the city center for 30 minutes, even if you only park for ten minutes. At Tutzinger-Hof-Platz it is 20 cents for 15 minutes. The application from the town hall aimed at 20 minutes of free parking, but it is difficult to set up - that's why the city council suggested 30 minutes. "If you intend to park for longer, a fee-based ticket must be drawn from the start of the parking process," the suggestion says. Means: If you want to park for an hour, you pay the full price (one euro). This is to ensure that the “Semmel tariff” is really only used by short-term parkers. So there will be no basically 30 minutes of free parking. You also have to get a ticket from the machine for 30 minutes. The city council voted against three votes in favor. According to the city administration, it will take a few weeks to implement and cost a few thousand euros. The new regulation must first be published. The retrofitting should be completed by the end of March, said Eva John yesterday - including changing the cellphone parking.
One of the opposite votes came from Dr. Franz Sengl (Greens), who recognizes in the discount for drivers a contradiction to the goal of keeping cars out of the city center. He believes that the city center should be made as car-free as possible - and therefore advocated taking some parking spaces at the roundabout in front of the "Bayerischer Hof" in return. Iris Ziebart (FDP) also spoke in favor of this; it was not much more city councilors. Michael Mignoli (BLS) announced resistance: "Not with us!" Although he had "a little green heart", he declined.
There are also complaints about the parking machines at the public car park Bahnhof See and Bahnhof Nord. Some of them are not illuminated, payment by mobile phone is not possible. According to John, the cellphone parking is supposed to work in both parking spaces by mid-March at the latest, perhaps in just a few days - the contracted company is on the move. The machine at the north station was indeed a little dark because the lantern behind it was very high; the administration is looking for a solution. At the See train station, the machine is actually illuminated. The devices also light up, but not continuously, but only when you press a button.
An application from Sengl and Prof. Otto Gaßner (UWG), among others, to abolish the fees for parking on public transport areas has so far been untreated. This would do the city council a great favor to many commuters who have to take a ticket every day. Whether it will come to that will be decided on April 2 - then the proposal is on the agenda.
