Fully in the Madrid 360 strategy that will revolutionize the entire automotive and environmental environment of Madrid, the City Council of the capital, which is integrated into the Regulated Parking Service (SER). Some places to park with “high rotation” that modify certain aspects and will be seen more and more frequently in the streets of Madrid.
A time of great change in Madrid, with an eye on the municipal elections of 2023, José Luis Martínez Almeida continues to fully bring a new concept of mobility to the city. For this reason, the delegate of this area (Mobility and Environment), Borja Carabante, has given the starting signal to the blue and white squares on Monday.
A new concept of parking in Madrid that is introduced together with the already existing blue and green zones and for which you will have to pay to park for a maximum time allowed in the capital. For now only in certain areas of the perimeter that integrates the M-30, the objective of the consistory is that they expand in order to help more accessible mobility for the entire city.
What are the new white and blue squares in Madrid?
And it is that the objective of these new parking areas is to protect places of high mobility at certain times. Placed around schools, hospitals, shopping centers, institutional buildings or places where traffic pressure is constant, the clear purpose is to cause a continuous rotation of vehicles that facilitates short-term parking in these accesses.
Where are the new white and blue squares in Madrid?
Premiered in the district of Chamberí, at the height of Bravo Murillo, in the coming weeks almost 500 squares will be painted in 26 neighborhoods of seven districts. In this way, these new places will be integrated into Chamberí itself (132 areas), Tetuán (91), Arganzuela (85), Retiro (71), Salamanca (50), Chamartín (47) and Fuencarral-El Pardo (15). . The City Council during the next months.
What is the price of the new white and blue plazas in Madrid?
In order to protect the areas of greatest mobility such as a health center or a school, these new areas are therefore also more expensive. For this reason, the base rate is set at 20 cents for the first 5 minutes, which then rises to 70 cents after 20 minutes and reaches 2.05 euros for 45 minutes. “Except for the first five minutes, which will not be divided, the intermediate time intervals between two rates will be settled by multiples of five euro cents,” details the consistory.
How long can you park in the new white and blue spaces in Madrid?
It will be precisely those 45 minutes the maximum parking time in a white and blue zone. By preventing payment to the same license plate after these three quarters of an hour, the presence of the vehicle from then on will be penalized in the same way as failure to pay during the previous 45 minutes.
These are the fines for the new white and blue squares in Madrid
All this regulated in the Sustainable Mobility Ordinance that the City Council gave the go-ahead in 2021, in said text it is estimated that non-compliance with the obligations regulated in these places contemplates the sanction of up to 100 euros. That is, as until now the blue and/or green places, these fines could reach such a figure depending on the time spent without paying or the possibility of reducing the infraction promptly.