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Parking ticket machine (symbol picture): Residential parking is to become more expensive in Berlin, among other places
Photo: Monika Skolimowska / dpa
Since last year, federal states and municipalities have been able to significantly increase parking fees for residents: That was decided by the Bundestag and Bundesrat.
Until then, resident parking permits were dirt cheap at EUR 10.20 to EUR 30.70 per year.
Since then it has been going up in some places, in some cases even steeply, so Tübingen wants to increase the parking fees for heavy SUVs sixfold.
In Berlin, too, resident parking is expected to become more expensive in the foreseeable future.
This is what it says in the coalition agreement of the new red-green-red Senate.
By 2023 at the latest, there should be an increase in the contributions for the resident parking vignette to ten euros per month, i.e. to 120 euros per year.
"Discounts based on social and ecological criteria" should be checked.
If you compare the planned amount with the current price - 10.20 euros per year or 20.40 euros for two years - the increase is huge, the fee is almost twelve times the size.
The previous amount had not even covered the administrative expenses, suspects the ADAC.
Mandatory guest ticket planned
Background of the price surge: The old and new coalition partners in Berlin want to expand local public transport.
Among other things, five underground lines are to be extended, the tram network expanded and the surrounding area better connected with buses.
The coalition wants to offer a five-minute cycle in the city center and a ten-minute cycle in the outskirts.
There should be no city toll to finance the projects, the parking vignettes could possibly at least make a contribution.
However, according to the coalition agreement, the Senate should share the revenue with the districts.
Details are not yet clear.
To finance the projects in the transport sector, Rot-Grün-Rot also has another source of income in mind: From 2024, tourists in the capital should also make a contribution - in the form of a mandatory guest ticket for local transport.
The city-state wants to develop a concept with the tourism industry and the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (VBB).
chs / AFP
