Posted on Dec 9, 2019 2020 at 7:00Updated Dec 9, 2019 2020 at 7:03
Paid parking for motorcycles and scooters in the streets of the capital has not yet been established, but it is part of the revenue on which the mayor of Paris hopes to be able to count next year!
In its draft budget for 2021, which will be examined next week by the Council of Paris, the municipal team led by Anne Hidalgo expects revenue from paid parking up 45.4 million euros compared to the budget for 2020, “In accordance with the City’s desire to enhance the value of Parisian public space”.
Automatic control
This figure, we explained to the Hôtel-de-Ville, includes in particular the additional revenues that could come from an overhaul of the price list and the possible establishment of paid parking for motorized two-wheelers. . Also included are the expected benefits of the deployment of automatic control of paid parking by automatic reading of license plates – a device intended to increase the number of vehicles checked per day.
Today, motorcycles and scooters can park for free in Paris, in areas reserved for them but also in parking spaces for cars. But before the second round of municipal elections, last June, Anne Hidalgo had declared herself in favor of making them pay for parking, like David Belliard, the environmental candidate who had rallied to her. The subject is on the table within the framework of the “States general of the parking”, which is currently being held.
“We are working, nothing has yet been decided. Things will settle down at the start of next year ”, David Belliard, now deputy in charge of the transformation of public space, transport, mobility, street code and highways, declared to the “Parisian” last week.
The cost of containment
In total, revenue from paid parking entered in the draft budget for 2021 amounts to 379 million euros. In 2020, free parking during the first confinement cost the city of Paris 60 million euros, according to figures included in the additional budget voted last July.
Paul Simondon, the deputy in charge of finance, budget and green finance, presented on Tuesday the broad outlines of a “solidarity and crisis exit” budget, characterized by an increase in operating expenses of 2, 1% and the prospect of “Maintenance of a very high level of investment”, to 1.45 billion euros.
With gross savings down 41.2%, to 384 million euros, the city of Paris will go into heavy debt next year. It registered a borrowing authorization of 780.6 million euros (+ 53.6% compared to the initial 2020 budget). This will bring the debt to 7.05 billion euros at the end of 2021 and increase its deleveraging capacity from 9.39 years to 18.37 years.
“It compromises everything. It is not sustainable to continue at this rate ”, judge Marie-Claire Carrère-Gée, advisor (LR) of Paris LR, who asks Anne Hidalgo to “Urgently present a debt reduction plan”. His political group Change Paris is also demanding a “Independent audit of the city’s finances and public policies”. “It turns out that the city of Paris has embarked on a process of certifying its accounts”, retorts Paul Simondon. Which, according to Marie-Claire Carrère-Gée, has nothing to do with it.
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