Should parking be free in Strasbourg as in March-April?

A FPS on a vehicle parked in Strasbourg on November 3, 2020. -

• Motorists met by

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  do not seem to know that parking is still chargeable this time in the city center.

• A situation and discontents that resonate on social networks.

• the city confirms the maintenance of paid parking, explaining that it wants to "guarantee a regular rotation of vehicles and that the usual use of the road is maintained".

Mylène, a motorist from Strasbourg frowns: “What, parking is not free during confinement?

The thirty-something, however, was about to leave her car without paying to visit an elderly person.

Like her, several users met by

in the parking areas in Strasbourg city center seem not to be aware of the maintenance of paid parking.

"It was obvious because it was free during the confinement of March," explains a craftsman.

I think we've been too used to it.

Philippe, almost 50 years old, has understood it well.

"I took a fine two days ago, I did not know, now I am aware," quips the motorist.

A situation and discontents that resonate on social networks.

So that the municipal opposition challenged, via a letter, the mayor of Strasbourg Jeanne Barseghian.

The president of the LR group Jean Philippe Vetter accuses the elected representative of having lacked clarity and of "continuing to verbalize the vehicles while the government asks everyone to respect the confinement.

"Also, continues Jean Philippe Vetter," one can imagine that hundreds of Strasbourg residents left their vehicle parked in good faith.

"The councilor also asks the mayor" to suspend paid parking throughout the confinement and to cancel the FPS issued since Friday.

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"A nice gesture"

Met in the streets of Strasbourg on this fifth day of constraint, Gregory, a landscape craftsman specializing in Christmas decoration, has a mixed opinion on the question.

If he is authorized to park for free outside the parking spaces in order to be able to install the decorations, he prefers to pay "so as not to take advantage of the system, assures the landscaper.

But with the cancellation of the Christmas market, we lost a lot of contracts, so free parking would have been a nice gesture.

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“It would make it possible to attract people to come and see the illuminations and therefore to make the only open shops work a little,” adds his colleague.

"We are not even allowed to take our vehicle to park in a free parking zone, since we are not allowed to travel more than a kilometer, worries a resident of the center. city.

There should be a special box on the certificates: 

 "" When it is free, there is no longer a place to park, it does not move, even for subscribed residents, contests one resident.

Suddenly, it becomes hell and we can not even go to work without the fear of not finding a place at night.

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Asked to give their opinion, several readers of

regret "having to pay once again" and are indignant to see once again the motorists punctured ... A free which however would not suit Christian at all, who fears the return of suction cup cars, “not to mention the cars that will park on sidewalks, cycle paths and the like if there are no more controls.

I will even increase the prices, it would be a nice signal from the green town hall, ”says the Internet user.

“Nothing is ever free,” adds Steph.

"Guarantee a regular rotation of vehicles and that the usual use of the road network is maintained"

Others, like Anne, who is worried about families who have two vehicles but are not entitled to benefit from resident parking for two cars, it "would be more logical to set up free parking because teleworking becomes an obligation and not an option.

As well as partial unemployment which forces you to stay at home.

I think it is the municipality's duty to think carefully and not to further endanger the situation of several families whose daily lives are becoming more and more uncertain.

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A request that seems to have been heard.

In a press release this Tuesday evening, the city indicates, and this is a first, that during confinement, owners of a second vehicle residing in paid parking zones can request a second resident subscription.

Another novelty this time concerning the parking in structure, the motorists having a subscription day or night will be able to benefit from a subscription 24 hours without additional cost.

On the other hand, the city confirms the maintenance of paid parking, explaining that it wants to “guarantee a regular rotation of vehicles and that the usual use of the road network is maintained.

»Residents are therefore invited to pay their monthly fee for the month of November now.

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