Why do people so badly about the parking tickets? It is not primarily bötfällandet itself that hurts, but nitiskheten. That there is no rhyme or reason at all. For so it is, of course: The sense normally blurs the edges of the sharp red tape is missing.
We have all heard the skräckhistorierna about the different fees payable as issued. People who had engine problems and the car patched in a few minutes, before they had time to turn away the. The man who went out and was greeted by a destroyed by fire the car – which also had provided with a fine, because the missing parking permits since the first slukats of the flames. The ambulance that slarvparkerade on the way to an older person with heart trouble, and been punished for their haste with an inspection fee.
”When we come to the patient’s home, we have no time to look for parking space and even less paying the p-tickets,” pointed out ambulanssjuksköterskan Pass Karlsson on Facebook. Which is obvious – for all but parkeringsföretagen.
one thing when it comes to just the kind of company that patrols private land. They often have no other income than the one they get in by the to issue charges, which means that the employees are forced to do everything to patch so many cars, the only can. For these companies, there are no borderline cases.
”When we come to the patient’s home, we have no time to look for parking space and even less paying the p-tickets,” pointed out ambulanssjuksköterskan Klara Karlsson.
But when the municipalities behave the same way? In 2018, the entire 1,59 million parking tickets in Sweden, totalling more than sek 1 billion. This is an epidemic. The government has now almost doubled the maximum from 700 sek 1300 sek, and further increases can come.
parking and felparkeringsavgifterna even for insignificant offences increase, which means that in the future such as can cost 900 dollars to not have a visible ticket, and 1100 dollars on the car park draws over the paid time by a few minutes. 1300 sek is the price for unauthorized parking. In this way hope the municipality to be able to pull in a half billion, and together with revenues from the annual fees sum up to more than the double.
Municipalities may not actually do so. If they want to charge parking at a certain place so they must be able to justify it, and to investigate the consequences. But in practice it is often so simple that if an individual requests forbidden to park on their street so to be given it.
by Jan Söderström, former director of the department of traffic and infrastructure on the Swedish Municipalities and County councils as well as substitute professor at the Department of traffic planning at KTH, on DN Debate the other day:
”The felparkeringsavgifter as Stockholm applied means that ’punishment’ does not stand in reasonable proportion to the ’crime’ has been committed – even if it’s in the legal sense is not about crime and punishment. Most illegal parking is of minor offences where a third party has not suffered any damage and does not constitute any danger to road safety. And for parkeringsvakterna means the high fees are a stressful work situation.”
would argue that it is good with everything that makes it a hassle to go by car. Cars create congestion in the cities, and the exhaust gas having a significant negative impact on both human health and the climate.
But then you should know that also the parking of small, more environmentally friendly vehicles such as fossil-fuel-free bikes, electric bicycles, mopeds and motorcycles are the surcharge. There is no particular moral view behind this system. No other intention than to draw in money.
