Department of Transportation

　　To exercise the principle of fairness by having users pay for services they use, and to solve the issue of parking spots having cars parked and being occupied for a long period of time, Taipei City Parking Management and Development Office (PMDO) will have all currently-available free road-side parking spots included in paid services at the end of this year, in an attempt to improve orderly parking.
　　As expressed by PMDO, an initial network of Metro routes has recently been completed, along with fully available bus routes and YouBike that are able to offer comfortable and highly-concentrated public transport services. To encourage people to utilize public transport and fairly reflect the costs of owning and using private means of transportation, road-side parking spots for cars have been planned for full inclusion into paid services. Those spots were mostly ones suggested for priority of inclusion by citizens via means of appeal, such as 1999 Citizen Hotline and City Affairs Mailbox. For other roads, consideration was given to citizens for their needs of adjustment and adaptation to the new policy. All free road-side parking spots along “roads and streets” will be included in paid services by the end of September; those along “lanes and alleys” will be included by the end of December. Meanwhile, a special section for “2015 Plan for charges on road-side parking in Taipei City” was added on PMDO’s website (http://www.pma.gov.taipei/)(Chinese) to provide publicly available information including SOPs, Q&A and progress on processing for the section of roads included in paid services, thereby offering convenience for citizens to look up.
　　Also as a reminder from PMDO, citizens should establish a concept in their mind for preparing their own parking spots when buying a car and not treat road-side parking spots as their own garage space. By releasing road-side spaces to pedestrian passage and unobstructed access during an emergency, this effort of inclusion into paid services aims at restoring an environment that is people-oriented in regard to transportation.

2015-04-30