Prices for resident parking plaques: Hessen in the midfield of costs!

Prices for resident parking plaques: Hessen in the midfield of costs!

Offenbach, Deutschland - The discussion about residential parking fees in Germany is increasingly gaining driving. As part of a comprehensive examination of the German Environmental Aid (DUH), 107 cities, including all large cities and the five largest cities in each state, were interviewed. The results show that the price range for residents' parking cards is between 10 and 360 euros per year, with many cities in the lower price segment. The fees are particularly in midfield in Hesse.

In Offenbach, residents have to pay 75 euros a year for a parking permit, while in Hanau it is only 60 euros. Cities like Kassel only require between 21 and 30 euros, while Frankfurt, Darmstadt and Wiesbaden are among the more expensive cities with 120 euros per year. It is clear that 66 of the cities surveyed require less than 31 euros for a resident parking license, a trend that can be observed after the nationwide upper limit of 30.70 euros in 2020.

higher fees required

The DUH sees the need to drastically increase the fees for resident parking ID cards in order to take a fair distribution of public space into account and to promote the change in mobility. Jürgen Resch, the federal manager of the DUH, calls for a minimum fee of 360 euros per year. This reform would be necessary because the upper limit for parking fees has already been tilted in individual federal states, including Hessen.

In comparison, there are cities that already raise higher fees. In Münster, for example, a resident parking certificate costs 260 euros, and in Bonn it is even 360 euros. The fees in European cities are particularly striking: Stockholm can request up to 1309 euros, while Amsterdam costs 567 euros annually. In contrast, Berlin offers its residents a parking permit for only 10 euros, which is due to the strongly contingent parking space situation in large cities.

trend towards increasing fees

After the lifting of the upper limit by the Bundestag and the Federal Council in 2020, the federal states have been permitted since then to determine the fees for resident parking certificates themselves. In cities like Tübingen, residents already pay 120 euros a year, while diesel vehicles even have to pay 180 euros of over 1,800 kg or electric cars over 2,000 kg. In Freiburg, the fee for the resident parking card is 200 euros.

The trend towards increasing fees will also continue in the coming years. The fees should be based on the administrative effort, whereby the costs for the issuing of the badge often do not cover the fees itself. In order to solve the problem of parking space in urban areas, experts demand adaptation and increasing the fees in order to better use the public space and to reduce the financial effort for the cities.

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