The situation is gruesome, promises a mountain of challenges of parking tickets to municipal services, and an additional obstacle course for motorists whose daily life is already complicated.
Since March, hundreds or even thousands of fines for non-payment of parking have reached people with disabilities, for whom parking in the capital is however… free, in dedicated spaces as well as all paid spaces. surface.
Exempt and even exempt from taking a parking meter ticket, subject to affixing their PRM card (person with reduced mobility) on the windshield, these thousands of motorists find themselves trapped by a recent and discreet change in the rules of disabled parking: to park in an ordinary place, they must now request a "handivirtual" ticket.
The old process considered simpler
"I discovered that when I received two fines at the same time, which correspond to two consultations at the Trousseau hospital", says for example Camille, mother of a multi-disabled child that she has to drive regularly to the pediatric hospital of the 12th century. .
“I have a Mobility Inclusion (CMI) parking card,” she explains, “before that was enough, it was simple, and the new cards are tamper-proof, so the abuses of the past are no longer possible.
However, since the City delegated control to Streeteo,
(Editor's note: a subsidiary of the Indigo group, to which the City of Paris has delegated the management of paid parking)
, it has also changed the regulations, overnight without the 'we be warned!
»Says the mother indignantly.
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Above all, Camille considers this new regulation to be much more complicated: “The agents obviously only check the presence of a ticket, not that of the card… This one is supposed to make our life easier, the parking meter was at least a concern for us. did not have, but the new regulations complicate everything, it even introduces a QR code! I can imagine what this represents for a motorist in a wheelchair or who moves with difficulty, forced to go get a parking meter, take the ticket, come back… Not everyone has a phone to scan QR codes! "
For Camille, it was “only” two fixed fines of 35 euros, to be paid within 45 days, but how many PVs have they rained since March?
“It's delusional, this mom says with annoyance.
We already have a very complicated administrative life, mobility most often complicated ... And the town hall answers quietly that no one is supposed to ignore the law!
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The city assumes its choice
This is in essence the response actually obtained from the Roads and Travel Directorate, which Camille contacted the user response service ... "The right to free access is in no way called into question, assures the City," but must now simply, to be taken into account during checks, and thus avoid a post-parking pass, be activated by a virtual Handi ticket ”. A ticket issued in two forms: either listing your car in the Handi'Stat device, once and for all, or by taking a dedicated ticket for each parking lot ...
Anger roars, at the terse explanations of the city. "I discovered on the fine dispute site that this rule came into force on March 8", indignant another motorist, in the same situation as Camille, and recipient of 4 PV in a few days for the months of March and April, and forced, like hundreds of others, "to challenge all these unjustified fines." I am appalled by the absurdity of this measure, which is supposed to fight against fake disabled cards, but which ultimately makes the procedure cumbersome for those who use it correctly! ", He is indignant, convinced that" this especially allows the private operator to no longer have to check the validity of the cards affixed to the windshields, by simply scanning the license plates to verify if the handivirtual ticket has been taken ”.
This Parisian has decided to write to the mayor of Paris, stressing that “the actions you are taking are contradictory with the simplification of the procedures incumbent on people with disabilities. Shame on you, ”he fulminates, stressing that the proposed referencing is only possible for Parisians.
