New parking sign in the Old Town. (source: TASR)
On Monday, July 31, Bratislava launched a new regulated parking zone called SM0 Centrum - Panenská in the Old Town borough.
It is now part of the city-wide parking policy known as PAAS, becoming only the second PAAS zone in the Old Town after SM1 Main Railway Station -Blumentál. Five more PAAS parking zones are in the works.
The new zone, marked off by the Danube embankment, the Palisády neighbourhood, and the streets of Dostojevského Rad and Ulica 29. Augusta, includes approximately 3,600 parking spaces.
The zone also includes parking spaces previously operated by the parking company BPS Park for more than 17 years; roughly a third of the parking spaces are reserved parking spaces that have been contracted by individuals or legal entities through the BPS Park company.
Parking in the zone is only allowed with a valid PAAS parking card or after paying the hourly parking fee of €2 per hour between 8:00 and midnight on weekdays, and €1 per hour on weekends and holidays.
Moreover, 58 new parking machines are to be installed, most of them in places where the BPS Park machines were placed.
(source: Bratislava-Old Town)
(source: Bratislava-Old Town)
However, the company considers the capital's procedure for introducing regulated parking in the Old Town to be illegal and turned to the Administrative Court. BPS Park is convinced that the effectiveness of the procedure should be postponed and the legal act should be cancelled.
The city insists that it is proceeding according to the law and considers the contracts concluded in the past with the company to be questionable and "absolutely invalid legal acts", which, however, BPS Park rejects.
(source: Bratislava-Old Town)
