Freiburg has shown the way, now Karlsruhe should follow suit. In future, residents of the city in Breisgau will pay multiple times to park their car on their doorstep. The Greens and the Left have made appropriate proposals.
In the future, residents will pay an average of 360 euros per year to park their vehicle on their doorstep in Freiburg. So far, a standard rate of 30 euros has applied. But the federal government had tipped the upper limit for residents’ parking of 30.7 euros per year last summer. And other cities and municipalities in Baden-Württemberg also want higher fees – including Karlsruhe.
The city announced that the Greens and the Left had already submitted requests to the local council to adjust the resident parking permit fees. Independently of this, the city administration is developing a “project outline for the creation of a new lead project”, which should also take into account the desired adjustment of the fees.
Ministry: Residential parking is too cheap
Before Karlsruhe can increase its parking fees, however, the state must issue a corresponding state ordinance. According to the Stuttgart Ministry of Transport, the so-called delegation regulation is expected to come into force before the summer break. In addition to Karlsruhe, Tübingen and Ulm are also in the starting blocks to increase their parking fees.
The State Ministry of Transport sees the increase plans with goodwill. “Residential parking is (…) not yet suitable to offer a real incentive to switch to climate and environmentally friendly alternatives,” explained a spokesman. “That should change now.”
From the point of view of the environmental organization BUND, higher residential parking fees are long overdue. If you buy a house in the city, you have to pay tens of thousands of euros for an underground parking space, said state chairwoman Sylvia Pilarsky-Grosch. “It cannot be that we make our streets available to residents almost free of charge.” The hope is that higher costs will make it less attractive to have your own car in the city – “we definitely think that’s a good thing”.
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