October the 16th, 2024 – Huge changes to Zagreb traffic and especially parking as we know it are coming in mere days, beginning on October the 26th.
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the number of registered personal cars in the City of Zagreb stood at 283,331 back in 2013, growing significantly to 379,564 in 2023, which is currently the latest data we have available. The increase in the number of cars in the capital over the last decade is therefore 34 percent, Mayor Tomislav Tomašević said.
“Everything needs to be redone in Zagreb,” the mayor said at the beginning, adding that the increasingly large crowds are the result of poor city planning, as well as the large number of cars.
He also listed the new road corridors that are currently in the works which will result in big changes for Zagreb traffic and parking, before turning his attention to investments being made in public transport.
“Even if we’re only looking at the trams, the city will see a new investment totalling 200 million euros. In addition, we’ve purchased 65 new buses,” Tomisalv Tomašević said, adding that the plan is to rebuild the railways, citing difficulties with parts. “Some things aren’t even being produced anymore considering how old some things we have here are,” he warned.
He then paid further attention to the Zagreb traffic situation and the big changes coming to parking across the city.
“A garage is currently being designed in Klaiećeva. That’s about 20 million euros of investment, and will result in 800 new parking spaces. Under Paromlin, we’re building an underground garage with an additional 350 spaces. We’re also working on a garage under Franjo Tuđman Square. The idea is for people to be able to leave their cars on the outskirts of the centre so that we have as few cars as possible in the very heart of the city, and as such fewer crowds,” he said.
Tomašević also stated that parking charges will be introduced up to 12:00, as opposed to up until 22:00. Additionally, billing will be done on Sundays until 15:00. Until now, there were no parking charges on Sundays at all, Tomašević said. These big Zagreb traffic and parking changes, he said, will protect the people who actually live in the centre.
He also announced that block parking in the centre will start as early as the end of October this year, more specifically on the 26th of the month.
