Since the last midnight, the new management contract in force ORA and the City of Cartagena and who is responsible for the collection of parking meters.
The general director of Public Safety, Carlos Nieto, explained that from now on will be a new collection system other than the above and that the City will pay an annual fee of 1.6 million, Parking and Services Company.
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Nieto has reported on the operation of the 120 new parking meters.
These technological improvements offer a solar operation, or the use thereof by prepaid cards through chip.
In addition the council has given the pachymeters servers to always know the collection of each or all machines.
As an improvement of this new contract, explained Nieto, offers the possibility to withdraw or cancel a parking complaint over an hour and a half after it carried out the excess.
In this way, explained Carlos Nieto, some bad gear that had been detected so far regarding the misuse of the system, it will correct for the sake of the citizen to the citizen who has more blue areas may parking.
On the other hand, Nieto stressed that the rates in Cartagena, both controlled parking as the residents are the lowest in the entire Spanish territory.
Therefore, assured that the city maintain its policy of continuing to maintain the same rate (0.20 cents) to avoid aggravating the cities.
Pedestrian
The second phase of pedestrian counts to the Plaza Santa Florentina Castellini and have reduced the parking spaces in general, both blue and orange.
What has been done, explained Carlos Nieto, has been remodeling in order to continue providing the same number of spaces for residents.
That is, a total of 3200 seats, of which 40% are for area residents.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena