One hour free parking on the outskirts of Orbay
This is a gesture to merchants and people after restricting parking for thirty minutes on the streets of the center.
Three free car parks for the first hour are two to seven minutes’ walk from the Place du Marche.
Jean-Paul Guinard – Archives
Arbe heard the complaints of its merchants and a section of its population. After the introduction of a new parking policy in 2021, there were strong reactions to the reduction of the maximum parking time paid for 1 franc on the streets of the city center from one hour to thirty minutes. While the municipality welcomes a better return measured after six months in these 30 short-term locations, the time available for customers to buy is considered too short.
“We wanted to make a gesture to compensate. We’re trying to keep all the assets on our side so that our town center lives on.
To satisfy everyone, we had to adapt. So, the Place du Marche (Parking Terriaux-Centre, Parking Abbe-Grand-Pont, Parking de Thien ) is up to three or five hours, or unlimited. “We wanted to make a gesture to compensate, commented Syndic Marie-Claude Chevalier. We try to put all the assets on our side so that our city center lives.
No profit
Therefore, the municipality promotes short-term parking, and for freed public space, medium-term parking in three designated car parks and six closed spaces, and further puts passenger cars in exclusive spaces. “We have free parking for the first hour, which is very attractive to encourage people to park for a short period of time, and then the hourly charge is not linear but progressive, which deters commuters,” emphasizes Samuel Clare. Movement Office.
This new free service will cost the commune about 10 to 15,000 francs. Note that it does not make a profit from managing its 300 parking spaces. The item is balanced in the 2023 budget (751,000 francs in expenses and income), due to a small puncture in the special fund.
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