The parking meter system, aimed at charging for parking in some areas of the City of Buenos Aires, will stop working from May and It will be replaced by a specific application that motorists must have to pay digitally for leaving the vehicles in the fee spaces that, for now, add up to 4,000.
The measure is part of a “Government plan and commitments” announced today by the administration of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta for 2022, which brings together 26 measures related to the areas of education, work, security, urban transformation, digital city and comprehensive well-being.
Among the actions to be carried out are the transformation of the downtown area of Buenos Aires into a residential area, the installation of 30 companies in the Villa Devoto Wine District, the creation of 10 “green streets”, the integration of 1000 private cameras to the video surveillance system, the distribution of “ecotachos” and the start of the Metrobus Alberdi-Directorio.
How will the new fee system work?
In the case of the emetered parkingwill begin to rule new fee-based parking system in May through an application It can be used from any mobile device, through which users can pay under the pre-paid or post-paid scheme.
As they advanced, through the digital platform sYou can charge the license plate of the vehicle to generate the parking payment during the time of stay, as well as there will be the possibility of having prior credit to which the cost will be debited.
In principle, the new modality will replace the system of parking meters and ticket vending machines and will contemplate the 4,000 fee spaces that exist in the city of Buenos AiresHowever, it could be expanded if the implementation of the law passed in the Buenos Aires Legislature advanced, which increased the number of places to 130,000.
According to advances from the Buenos Aires Government, before the start-up of the system, there will be, throughout April a dissemination work which will also include communication with resident neighbors who own a vehicle since They will be exempt from paying the fee for parking in a range of up to 300 meters away from their home.
The measure was advanced in a press meeting by the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta; together with the chief of staff Felipe Miguel; the Secretary General and Secretary of International Relations, Fernando Straface, and the Secretary of Planning and Management Control, Facundo Carrillo.
“It is a plan open to society on which we report every year,” said Larreta and advanced that in order to “institutionalize this healthy practice in terms of democratic relations with neighbors,” he will send a bill to the Legislature so that “all chiefs of Government must inform the commitments and account for them”.
