Parking spaces in Brno are three times cheaper than in Prague. More to come
Explanation? The Brno parking garage was built from prefabricated concrete parts. “For cities, it represents a quick and economical solution to the lack of parking spaces. The advantage is that it is possible to build very quickly and all year round,” said Jiří Stix, business director of Prefa Brno, which specializes in prefabricated parking buildings.
According to the agency, it is also Brno that wants to solve the problem of lack of parking spaces by building parking garages in the city. The Prague municipality is trying to motivate commuters to leave their cars on the outskirts of the metropolis and continue using public transport. However, according to the pirate opposition MP Marek Lahoda, parking garages are a compromise between parking in the city center and on the outskirts. However, if such a house is built, the number of parking spaces on the streets should be reduced by the same number.
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According to him, the goal is not to increase the number of parking spaces. “In general, the trend is to clear the inner spaces of cities from cars, because they occupy a large amount of space on the streets, which is very valuable and very limited. At the same time, cars are parked there ninety percent of the time, which is a terrible waste of space and money. Parking garages are such a compromise that we will never get rid of cars completely. They will always be needed in some way, whether it is fast transportation, supply, and the like. So I’m not saying that we shouldn’t build parking garages, but I think that if a parking garage is built somewhere, it is necessary to move spaces from the surrounding streets to it,” outlined Lahoda.
The municipality currently has several parking garages under construction. “Of the city’s planned buildings, further progress has been made with the parking garage on Šumavská Street, the Skořepka parking garage, where the land and construction permit process is underway, and the Purkyňova parking garage, where the court is now resolving a dispute over the ownership of one of the plots in question,” listed Zdeňka Obalilová from the press department Municipality of Brno. According to her, the city is working on finding other locations. “These are Jemelkova, Bítešská, Žlutý kopec and Sportovní streets,” she added.
The management of Brno also wants to solve the problem with parking spaces by investing in P+R type parking lots where the driver parks the car and continues by train or public transport. According to data from mobile operators, one hundred thousand people go to the city every day, more than half of them by car.
Where can drivers find parking garages and P+R parking lots in and around Brno?
Parking garages: Domini Park (Husova), River Park (Polní), Pinki Park (Kopečná)
P+R parking lot: River Park (Polní), near the Central Cemetery (Heršpická), in Líšn near Zetor (Trnkova), near the train stops in the village of Česká and Bílovice nad Svitavou
“Parking and mobility is one of our biggest priorities. Capacitive parking areas for those arriving in Brno must be provided and P+R must also be built in the area of train stops on the rail transport route in the direction of Brno. We have several projects of parking garages and P+R in various parts of the city under development, which should reduce the absence of parking spaces,” said Brno transport councilor Petr Kratochvíl. According to data from the Brno town hall, up to 40 percent of parking spaces are missing in some parts of the city, and it is even more during peak hours. In Brno, there are three main parking zones A, B, C and, since August, also zone E, which is used for electric cars at charging stations.
According to Lahoda, the same principle should then apply to P+R parking lots as to parking garages, and the city should remove the same number of parking spaces in the city center after their construction. More expensive parking fees in the city should also motivate drivers to leave their vehicles on the outskirts of the city. In addition, it should be the region that should systematically build parking lots at the stops of the backbone railway lines, so that people do not have to drive into the city at all.
because residents of Brno and commuters complain about parking solutions in Brno. It bothers Adam Veselý that, as a tenant, he cannot obtain a residence permit in parking zones. Petr Cihlář, on the other hand, that with the introduction of the so-called blue zones, as the parking zone is nicknamed because of the blue markings, the number of parking spaces has decreased.
According to Josef Řídký, the city went about it badly from the beginning and should have built the P+R parking lot first and only then the blue zones. “The first basic problem is that the city was able to charge first and then maybe sometimes deal with the essence of the problem. Especially in the peripheral parts of Brno, there is a big problem with parking due to the large number of students who come to Brno and park here. If the city does not find an adequate replacement for them, it will simply transfer the problem to the neighbors by introducing blue zones. The city should have taken the opposite route. First, build in the form of P+R parking lots and parking areas where, at least some, those who cannot or technically cannot pay the parking fee, or who would need to park their vehicle in order to continue using public transport for the night shift, could stand for free, and until then introduce blue zones, which have a chance to help the residents of the given streets to park without problems,” the man is convinced.