Support the petition against the expansion of the paid parking zone! Recently, information appeared in the media that in December of this year it is planned to introduce paid parking on 222 more streets in Moscow. Another "gift" from Deptrans does not allow you to be silent anymore. Paid parking has expanded throughout the city to the Moscow Ring Road, although we were assured after the commissioning of each subsequent section that there would be no more expansion, this is a pilot project, but now they have entered the quiet streets of sleeping areas, industrial zones, railways. stations, airports, markets, shopping centers, business centers and gave rise to a dumb question: what is happening to our city?

Why should we "pay for air"? This was not the case 5 years ago. On many streets where paid parking has already been introduced, there is not the slightest reason to introduce it if the goal is to fight traffic jams, and not replenish the budget by any means. And here's another list.

Let's be honest with ourselves. Paid parking behind the Garden Ring, and even more so behind the Third Transport Ring, do not carry the goal of unloading the city from traffic jams, it's already like a drug - having once tried to get into the pockets of car owners under the pretext of fighting traffic jams, it is now impossible to refuse such easy money. But sorry, we already pay a lot of money to own a car, and besides, the costs are constantly growing.

For example, we buy fuel, which has doubled in price in less than 10 years, we are forced to buy an OSAGO policy, which since 2014. increased in price by 90%, we pay fines that have increased by 10 times or more in recent years, we pay for toll roads and, in addition, the transport tax, is that really not enough?

Almost all citizens of the city are weakened by the crisis, many cannot find work, and almost every citizen has lost income over the past couple of years. But back to paid parking. The Department of Transport does not hear Muscovites. In the end, for whom are all these improvements in the transport situation introduced, if they only cause irritation and negativity among ordinary car owners, which is confirmed by rallies, petitions, and letters? At the same time, the next expansion is presented to us almost as a favor, supposedly this happens at the numerous requests of the Muscovites themselves, they themselves ask to introduce paid parking and install prohibition signs, and all these actions are agreed with the municipal deputies and only after their consent is the next "pilot project » is being implemented.

I conducted a survey among a dozen acquaintances, including those living in the paid parking zone, as well as one municipal deputy. And it’s hard to imagine a deputy who would agree to make paid parking in his area, so that he and his relatives would henceforth park cars for money. Naturally, as expected, none of them were asked for their opinion. They say that all the money raised from paid parking goes to the improvement of the city.

And how do you like the replacement of the curb stone on Leninsky Prospekt this year? The curbstone, which would have stood for another half a century, was replaced for some reason. After its replacement, it was necessary to re-lay asphalt along the entire width of the avenue, as well as apply markings. You can imagine the costs involved. But what was it for? If the collected funds are used for such purposes, then it is better not to ennoble anything and not charge for parking.

Thus, it is planned to make almost the entire North-West Administrative District of Moscow payable. In particular, Marshal Proshlyakov Street, which is included in this list in Strogino, is an industrial zone. I wonder which of the residents asked Deptrans to make parking on this street paid, if there are no residential buildings, there are gray fences around, dogs and businesses?

• Paid parking causes only negative emotions, undermines the family budget, takes time to pay, while in Moscow there are still many hours of traffic jams, no matter what statistics the interested parties would cite.

Let's let the drivers decide for themselves, if traffic jams reach such a scale that the loss of time becomes too great, they themselves will change to the subway. Those who need to drive fast still drive with flashing lights. A car is simply necessary for Moscow with its distances, business, and household purchases. And there is no need to force us to transfer to public transport. This is contrary to Article 27 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which states that every citizen has the right to free movement. And the movement sooner or later ends with a stop. If stopping is prohibited or paid, this is the restriction of movement. I hope the top management of Deptrans maintains its policy and gets to work by public transport?

By the way, just recently, a decision was made to increase parking fees in the central part of Moscow to 200 rubles. Tariff increase up to 200 rubles. motivated by the fact that in the center paid parking spaces are almost 100% occupied, and should be occupied by no more than 80% according to "experts". In order to reduce the workload to 80% and increase the tariff to 200 rubles. But we understand why all parking spaces are 100% occupied. First, “No Stopping” signs were massively installed, prohibiting parking on the lion’s share of streets and places, then paid parking was introduced with a limited number of places, and the center of Moscow was recently reconstructed, as a result of which sidewalks were significantly expanded, roads narrowed and as a result - there are very few parking spaces, and this despite the fact that cars in Moscow are not getting smaller every day. There was a deliberate policy of reducing parking spaces in order to create competition for spaces later and raise fees regularly. It remains only to sell parking spaces at auction.

We ask you to stop expanding the paid parking area and increase tariffs, remove the “no stopping” signs installed for the purpose of mass collection of fines and evacuation, “turn your face to car owners” and listen to their opinion!

Submitted on Fri, 30/09/2016 - 11:00 by Nikita

Moscow is waiting for the next stage of expanding the paid parking zone. Officials have not yet named specific areas and terms, but it is obvious that we are talking about sleeping areas - in all the rest they are already taking money for parking. At the same time, the authorities do not rule out an increase in the current parking rates. Experts believe that the protests of citizens and activists dissatisfied with the transport policy of the authorities, which swept Moscow at the end of last year, should not be expected.

Like assumed"Gazeta.Ru" back in April, the paid parking zone in Moscow will continue to expand, and this will most likely happen already in 2016. The authorities of the capital, which previously actively purchased the necessary road signs and signs, as well as held tenders for their installation, in the next few weeks will decide on new areas of the city where parking will have to be paid. The sad news for many drivers on Thursday was announced by the deputy mayor of Moscow for transport issues Maxim Liksutov.

“Now we are working on proposals to expand the paid parking area. In about a month, we will know in which places it is advisable to do this and what tariff will apply there.

I think we will have such a program in a month,” Liksutov said. - In Moscow, we are implementing a parking development program only in targeted places, where there are problems with the workload of places, this practice will continue. We are analyzing the use of parking spaces in terms of city street congestion.”

The official noted that the city authorities will not reduce parking rates in the central part of the city, and did not rule out that the rates, on the contrary, will be increased.

Now the most expensive parking in the capital is on a number of streets of the Boulevard Ring and next to the Moscow City business center. The first hour of parking here costs 80 rubles for motorists, and each subsequent hour costs 130 rubles. The parking fee inside the Garden Ring is 60 rubles. per hour, and from Sadovoye and further, up to the territories outside the Moscow Ring Road, - 40 rubles. in hour.

“Colleagues recommended changing the cost of parking no more than once every six months,” Liksutov said. - It was also recommended to look at the tariffs so that there are always free parking spaces, special places for residents.

There is no need to talk about reducing tariffs, whether the tariffs for increasing will change - this is a matter of our internal research and analysis.”

Liksutov did not specify who exactly is now offering the deptrans the place to introduce a paid parking regime. Earlier, the department assured that such proposals come from local residents and municipal deputies. However, the Mundeps themselves denied this, explaining that in fact the lists with street names were sent down to the municipalities from the mayor's office. Moreover, even if the majority of the deputies of the district were against the expansion, their position was not taken into account in any way.

In July 2016, when, in fact, the next expansion was announced, Liksutov again declared that Muscovites themselves are asking to introduce parking fees.

“The working group on paid parking at the deptrans has not met, probably for two years already. It has not been abolished, but there is no hope that at least formally something will be discussed and agreed with us, ”says Ilya Sviridov, deputy chairman of the Council of Municipalities of Moscow, to Gazeta.Ru.

Recall that the paid parking space in Moscow was expanded in stages starting from the autumn of 2012, the money for parking from motorists began to be taken at first only on several streets in the center of Moscow, and soon on the entire territory inside the Boulevard Ring.

After each successive stage of expansion, city officials - both Maxim Liksutov and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin - assured Muscovites that they had no plans for further expansion of paid parking lots. But very soon they appeared and were quickly realized. Thus, the toll zone first went beyond the Boulevard Ring, then beyond the boundaries of the Garden Ring, and, having occupied the entire space inside the Third Ring Road, eventually reached the Moscow Ring Road.

Now there are 67.5 thousand paid parking spaces in the city.

It is worth noting that the statement on the introduction of another paid parking zone was made shortly after the elections to the State Duma. “Of course, it was done on purpose,” says Anton Tarasov, mundep of the Airport district, to Gazeta.Ru. -

But all the same, I think there will be no protests like last winter, when there was another stage of expansion, now. Elections to the State Duma showed that the population fully supports the existing government. And those who are against, the officials still do not hear.

The interlocutor also notes that he does not know how and with whom the department will coordinate this time the addresses where paid parking spaces will appear. “If, like last time, we receive a list of streets for approval from the mayor's office, then I will contact the prosecutor's office, because the mundeps do not have the authority to approve such approvals - this is illegal. Earlier, I managed to remove the issue of introducing new paid parking lots in the area from the agenda after I threatened my fellow deputies with an appeal to the supervisory authority,” Tarasov says.

MOSCOW, 20 July. /TASS/. The next expansion of the paid parking space will not bring the expected effect on unloading the city's road network, you need to discuss this issue on the portal " Active Citizen or at a kind of referendum, where every Muscovite will be able to express their opinion on the plans of the city authorities. This was reported on Wednesday by experts interviewed by a TASS correspondent.

The authorities did not keep their promise

"I doubt that most motorists can come up with a request for the introduction of new paid parking. Perhaps these ideas will be expressed by Muscovites who do not drive cars, some anonymous community. These 100 - 200 letters that will come to the Department of Transport do not mean at all that all Muscovites support this idea. I think that such issues should be resolved at some kind of referendum," says Sergei Radko, lawyer for the Freedom of Choice Public Movement of Motorists.

According to him, a year ago, paid parking was introduced in the Otradnoye district, "where there have never been traffic jams." "I live there and see the real situation. And I don't know a single resident of the area who would advocate the expansion of the parking space," Radko said.

“I don’t see any need for another expansion of the parking space. When this was introduced at the pilot stage, we were all told that this was introduced in order to study how it affects traffic jams, and that allegedly parking lots will appear where traffic is very difficult. In practice, we have seen that now parking has reached the sleeping areas, where there have never been traffic jams. This idea does not bring anything good in itself, except that it will become another collection of money from our pockets, "said the agency's interlocutor.

Parking should be discussed on Active Citizen

“Let's decide on the Active Citizen portal not what color to paint the benches, but whether Moscow needs another expansion of the parking space?” Viktor Pokhmelkin, chairman of the Russian Motorists Movement, asks. According to him, "although relatively, it will be an indicator of public opinion."

"I remain a principled opponent of paid parking. If it is still possible to somehow justify the introduction of paid parking in the city center and inside the Garden Ring, then outside the Garden Ring and the Third Ring Road this is not caused by any need. This cannot be explained by the desire to unload traffic flows, this is nothing else like pumping money out of motorists. In my opinion, the Department of Transportation is already starting to play with fire," the source said.

The issue has become political.

According to Leonid Olshansky, vice-president of the Movement of Motorists of Russia, "paid parking has long acquired a political character." “If we look at the programs of parties and candidates for deputies in single-member districts, we will see that most of them have turned their faces towards motorists. to attract tow trucks, and to reduce the number of paid parking lots. I believe that on the eve of the elections to the State Duma, pensions and scholarships should be increased, and fines and the number of paid parking lots should be reduced," the expert said.

"Paid parking causes and will cause social instability in society, and Moscow is 10% of the voters. It is clearly inappropriate to expand the parking space, and parties will lose votes on this. Motorists will be indignant," the agency's interlocutor noted.

Inflation in the context of parking expansion

According to Olshansky, the increase in fines, the cost of OSAGO and the amount of paid parking are additional burdens for motorists. This, according to the expert, may ultimately lead to an increase in inflation.

“Motorists will transfer all of the above loads to consumers, what does this mean? It will be more expensive to bring logs and cement to the construction site, it will be more expensive to bring sausage to a grocery store, fabric to an atelier. Transport greatly affects the cost of any product. cost, and therefore - on inflation," Olshansky said.

Plans for the next expansion

Earlier, Deputy Mayor of Moscow Maxim Liksutov said that the Moscow authorities do not exclude the possibility of expanding paid parking in the capital in 2016. According to him, the transport department has already received several hundred relevant requests from Muscovites.

However, the deputy mayor noted that the decision on the introduction of new parking spaces will be made after discussion with residents and municipal deputies, as well as after an in-depth analysis of each potential parking space.

"We will take measurements, see who uses these places, how many violations there are, what days and hours are the busiest. Unfortunately, summer is not a very correct indicator of the statistics of occupancy of places. It takes time to evaluate and make the right informed decision. We will wait until everyone will return and leave, after that in October-November we will make a serious analysis and make a decision," the deputy mayor explained.