710 francs to park in the blue zone?: Price monitor guards against parking lot robberies

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Are you driving because you need it to go to work. To take your child to daycare. Or the weekend – with lots of friends – to your daughter’s soccer game? It’s perfectly normal. However, parking spaces in the blue zone are exorbitantly expensive.

Now the price monitor also intervenes. This made the drivers happy! For example, Stefan Meierhans (55) determined the land costs, production costs and management costs of a car park. Short- and long-term park owners must bear some of these costs. But how much is too much? Meierhans charged street parking fees in all Swiss cities with populations of 20,000 or more: on the one hand, for parking machines (white zone), on the other hand, for parking tickets for visitors (blue zone).

“In my view, you shouldn’t profit from wages,” Meierhans says. “My new model shows that such high fees cannot be justified given the costs. So I think cities should lower prices.” He developed a cost model that allows a reasonable price to be set for a parking ticket based on the principle of cost recovery.

According to the price watcher’s new cost model, annual subscriptions of over 400 francs are often too high for long-term parkers, regardless of whether those fees are charged in a small town or an expensive big city like Zurich. Blue or white zone parking spaces are on public land that is currently publicly owned. Therefore, it cannot be compared to private underground car parks, which are much more expensive on their own.

710 francs for a place in the blue zone

Above all, Meierhans criticizes that the very high fees for public parking spaces are antisocial. “The rich have their own garage or parking lot. Resident parking card holders are mostly people who work shifts or have private jobs and a smaller wallet,” he continues. That’s why he strongly advises the authorities to reconsider parking fees.

Meierhans does not ignore that he will approach cities with very high prices again. These cities include anyone who charges more than 400 francs per year for long-term public parking. For example, Lausanne with 500 francs, Bern with 492 francs, and Winterthur at 710 francs, which is almost insignificant. Zurich also wants to increase the fees from 300 francs to 540 francs.

Source :Blick