TreyOct 8, 2024
Arjan Bos
@notjustbikes You know that shop owners always complain when parking spots get taken away. In Frankfurt am Main it’s the opposite. Small restaurants complain that they now have to pay 15x more for having seating on a parking spots it will lose them revenue. 🙃 (link in German) https://www.hessenschau.de/wirtschaft/kaffeetrinken-statt-parken---frankfurter-gastronomen-fuerchten-um-ihre-aussenflaechen-v1,aussengastronomie-gebuehren-100.html
Kaffeetrinken statt Parken - Frankfurter Gastronomen fürchten um ihre Außenflächen

Die Nutzung von Parkplätzen durch Lokale in zentralen Stadtteilen sollte in Frankfurt neuerdings mehrere tausend statt wenige hundert Euro pro Jahr kosten. Nach Protesten hat die Stadt zwar vorerst eingelenkt, aber Gastronomen bangen um ihre Existenz.

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Oct 7, 2024 at 5:46amIvory for iOS
Show threadscatty Oct 7, 2024

@ArjanBos @notjustbikes

A small addendum since I had to look it up:
Using a parking spot by a cafe or restaurant: 15€ per day or 5475€ per year
Using a parking sport for a car: 120€ per year

One produces revenue for the city, the other makes the city more ugly.

Source (in German): https://frankfurt.de/Leistungen/Fahrzeug-und-Verkehr-8957833/Besondere-Erlaubnisse-8957850/Bewohnerparkausweis

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Show threadSerge 🔻Oct 7, 2024
@ArjanBos @notjustbikes no problem. Just charge car owners double.
Show threadCHZKOct 7, 2024
@ArjanBos @notjustbikes The real scandal here is, of course, that businesses that actually contribute to the local economy and community are being asked to pay nearly 10x what a private car owner would pay for a one-year license to park anywhere within their district ("Anwohnerparken"), for the same amount of space which then brings a net negative to the local community.