Parking rates in Paris increase for visitors from this Monday

Since nine o'clock this morning, parking rates in the capital have increased for visitors. In the first eleven districts of Paris (zone 1), it will now be necessary to pay 6€ per hour, instead of 4€ until now, according to the site of the town hall of Paris. From the 12th to the 20th arrondissement (zone 2), the hourly rate will also drop from €2.40 to €4. For six hours of parking, parking in zone 1 will therefore cost visitors €75 compared to €50 previously. For zone 2 you will have to pay 50€ instead of 35€. Trucks will not be spared either with an hourly rate going from €12 to €18 in zone 1 and from €7.20 to €12 in zone 2.

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The same goes for fines, renamed Post-parking Packages, which see their price drop from €50 to €75 in zone 1 and from €35 to €50 in zone 2. A possibility of a 30% reduction remains possible, however. if these are paid in less than four days. In the Bois de Vincennes as well as in the Bois de Boulogne, parking will also become chargeable during the week - at €4 for one hour - and on Saturdays - at €1.60 per hour - from October 1, 2021. Motorcycle drivers and scooters will finally have to pay to park in the capital from January 1, 2022.

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The association 40 million motorists denounces a "selection by money"

The resident rate does not, however, increase and mobile professional rates will be extended to merchants and craftsmen in the outer suburbs from 1 October. Parking will remain free for eligible low-emission vehicles.

The mayor of Paris places the reform of parking prices at the heart of a broader policy of eviction of thermal cars from the capital. The objective is thus to eliminate half of the parking spaces, ie an area of ​​60 hectares, to favor less polluting means of transport on the road.

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The measure is not to the taste of motorists. Daniel Quero, leader of the association 40 million motorists thus denounces “a selection by money” which makes a distinction between those “who will have the means to pay for parking” despite the increase, and the others. According to him, the increase in tariffs is part of a budgetary logic which has the sole purpose of "bailing out the coffers of the indebted town hall". The association also fears that the city will turn “into a museum city and an economic desert” by depriving itself of the arrival of inhabitants of the Paris region. The motorcyclists had also expressed their dissatisfaction with the announcement of the upcoming pricing of their parking.