Two cars are not enough to control the blue zones. Brno is considering a purchase or loan
The purchase of a third car has not yet been decided. One of the options that the city management is examining is also renting one or two cars from Prague that have better technology. “Our cars work in such a way that they collect data and then dump the entire collection into a bin in the evening. But today there are also online technologies that transmit data throughout the day,” outlined Kratochvíl. Before they buy a car, they want to test the technology first and consider alternatives.
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Now the system is such that the car scans the license plates of parked vehicles, these are then compared with the data in the database and the municipality determines whether a resident or subscriber license or payment of the visitor’s parking fee is registered for a specific license plate. “If the system does not match the registration plate with any of the data, the staff of the department of traffic administration works with the information, who, if necessary, deal with the follow-up,” explained Anna Dudková from the municipality’s department.
Expansion of blue zones in 2023:
5/6/2023 by area 1-22 (Červený kopec), 1-23 (Polní), 1-24 (Jílová)
14/08/2023 for area 1-17 (Lerchova)
9/10/2023 for area 1-18 (Rezkova), 1-19 (Neumannova), 1-20 (Žlutý kopec)
30/10/2023 about area 1-26 (Pšeník), 1-27 (Dvorského)
This year, the system of so-called blue zones will be expanded to include nine areas in the Brno-střed district, for example the Yellow or Red Hill. They will fall into zone C, where regulations apply on weekdays from five in the afternoon to six in the morning. Currently, they are already preparing a schedule for the year 2024 at the municipality.
According to the mayor of Brno-střed Vojtěch Mencl, the introduction of residential zones has improved the parking possibilities in the given localities for local residents. It supports expansion even to parts where it has not yet been introduced.
“It turns out that it is needed. By the fact that there are blue zones only in some areas, cars move to places where they are not yet established,” Mencl said.
In areas in the wider center of the city, the management of the central city district wants to establish that the regulation applies twenty-four hours a day. “Local residents are asking us for it. We haven’t discussed it with the new management of Brno yet, but I assume that there will be a discussion about it in the near future,” he added.
Map of blue zones in Brno with expansion in 2023.
For example, Jan Navrátil from Brno, living in Botanická street in the center of Brno, confided that parking was the main reason why he changed his residence. “However, in the early evening, it is a problem to park here even for residents. It’s full. “Parking garages would probably help here,” he says. Construction of one is scheduled to begin in the spring in Šumavská street. It will offer over five hundred parking spaces.
Resident parking also works in the Žabovřesk, Králova Pole or Brno-severu districts. The amount of the fine for bad parking in the blue zone is four hundred crowns. “There are currently 1,876 subscribers (entrepreneurs, editor’s note) and 30,476 residents (inhabitants living in the area – editor’s note) registered in the system,” said Dudková.