With this problem, many are currently reporting to the motorist clubs. Registration for the Pickerl has been possible since December. However, many only applied for this in the past few days and are still waiting for their parking sticker.
Place the printed application behind the windshield
“Of course, there is now great desperation because many do not know what to do,” Matthias Nagler from the ÖAMTC confirmed the situation to Radio Vienna. The parking sticker is only valid if you have received it with notification.
If it isn’t there yet, the expert advises printing out the application and placing it in the vehicle in a clearly visible place and hoping for the goodwill of the park sheriffs. The ÖAMTC also asked the city for goodwill in the first two weeks in the event of possible penalties.
Main residence in the respective district
Everyone with their main residence in the respective district and those who have a secondary residence – for example in an allotment garden area – are entitled to a parking sticker. By Sunday midnight, the city had around 112,600 registrations, up to 175,000 had originally been expected. The parking sticker costs ten euros per month plus administration fee. The sticker allows you to park your car anywhere in the district.
Viennese people who do not own a car and use car sharing models or rental vehicles are exempt from this. Like those people who do not live in the district, they also have to buy parking tickets and stick to the parking times. The costs range from EUR 1.10 (30 minutes) to EUR 4.40 for a maximum duration of 120 minutes. If you exceed the time, it becomes significantly more expensive: A ticket costs 36 euros.
“Parking sticker” required throughout Vienna
Starting tomorrow, the city will become a short-term parking zone almost across the board. The parking sticker will also be implemented in the six districts that have been missing so far. Cars can then no longer be parked indefinitely and free of charge on public roads. But there are exceptions.
Few exception zones
There are also overlapping areas between the districts, but in principle car owners are only allowed to park their vehicles indefinitely in their own residential district. A few streets, such as in industrial areas, will not become short-term parking zones. In the rest of the city, this will apply uniformly everywhere in the future, with a maximum parking time of two hours.
The period was set at 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. So far there have been differences. Parking space management is new in Liesing, Donaustadt, in Floridsdorf and in Hietzing. Simmering will become a full park sticker district after a short-term parking zone has already been enacted in some areas.
250 park sheriffs more
The city is hiring around 250 new employees in order to be able to look after the new areas of the expanded parking space management. So far, 600 parking space surveillance bodies have been deployed. Vienna always emphasizes that the income from parking space management flows directly into the expansion of public transport. Commuters who do not use public transport are recommended to use Park & Ride facilities.
The model of comprehensive short-term parking zones was first tested in Vienna in 1993, specifically in the inner city. Since then, it has been successively expanded – also because car users without parking authorization have switched to those districts in which unlimited parking was still possible. Most recently, 2019 was Döbling’s turn.