Some prize reductions on key utilities for the citizens of Zagreb.
Waste disposal, public transportation, parking and water supply – these are four utilities and transport services which should soon become less expensive for the citizens of Zagreb, reports Poslovni.hr on October 31, 2015.
Public transportation company ZET has already lowered the prices of monthly and annual passes for pupils, students, pensioners and the unemployed. The monthly pass for these categories of citizens for November costs 100 kuna, which is 20 kuna less than before. The annual pass, which used to cost 1,200 kuna, now costs 960 kuna, while the prices of workers’ monthly and annual passes have remained the same.
The citizens who use their own cars will also be able to save some money. Starting on Monday, they will pay less for parking their cars in all parking zones, and in city garages as well. “The price of a night parking ticket in all public garages will be one kuna per hour, which is 30-50 percent cheaper than before'”, Zagreb Holding claims. “The price of a weekly ticket in the first parking zone will be 180 kuna instead of 200 kuna, a monthly ticket will be 720 instead of 800 kuna, while the annual parking ticket for the first parking zone will be cheaper by almost 1,000 kuna. Instead of 8,800 kuna, it will cost 7,920 kuna. In the second parking zone, a weekly ticket will cost 90 kuna instead of 100 kuna, a monthly ticket will cost 360 kuna instead of 400 kuna, while an annual ticket will cost 3,960 instead of 4,400 kuna. Parking will be cheaper in the third parking zone as well, with weekly tickets going from 37,50 to 32 kuna, monthly tickets from 150 to 128 kuna, and annual tickets from 1,650 to 1,408 kuna.
Water supply will also become less expensive, so a cubic metre of water, which currently costs 4,68 kuna, will be 10 percent cheaper. Thus, a family of four will save about 10 kuna a month on their water bill, while the city water utility company will have to cope with decreased revenues in the amount of about 22 million kuna a year.
The city waste collection and disposal company Čistoća will also have revenues about 45 million kuna less than before. It had to come up with a new way of calculating the costs of waste collection for houses and apartments. Mayor of Zagreb Milan Bandić told the company that the bills for waste collection must be 32 percent lower for individual houses and 44 percent for apartments.
The details will be known later when general manager of Zagreb Holding Ana Stojić Deban presents the new prices of utilities.
