NYON A PARKING POLICY - The car Forbidden City?
By Elisabeth Guyot-North, 21 September 2006
Elizabeth Ruey-Ray wants a reasoned cohabitation of public and individual transport. (Photo E.Guyot-North)
Since this summer, all parking spaces in the city of Nyon and the lake are paying and short-lived. What drove him nuts the people at the center who do not know where to park their vehicle. The authorities want them driven out of town motorists living in older neighborhoods? "We are absolutely not against the car and defend a reasoned cohabitation of public and private transport," says Elizabeth Ruey-Ray, municipal police and transport.
Rain fines
"But in urban areas, it is to prioritize the type of parking required. Downtown is access to shops and short term parking prevail. We just applied the same principle to Shore neighborhood where illegal parking has reached alarming proportions, especially during summer events. With the opening in July, the new parking of 240 spaces at the Duchy, there is no place to park outside of the boxes. "And the offenders are now amended to arm circumference. "For two months we have distributed 700 flyers warning. The tolerance phase is now complete! " Commissioner adds Muther.
Shortage variable geometry
Between statements of principle and reality, however, there is a hiatus. The city has a total of 827 seats to pay quarterly subscription of the five communal parking areas in close periphery to the center. Private underground car parks of La Combe, Pertemps Centre, Rue Neuve and the Duchy offer only a few hundreds of sites, often unattributed, rented at high prices in the month. Unless you have a parking space or garage in front of his house - a common occurrence in residential areas but rare in the historical center - the motorized Nyonnais is forced to nomadism car. Especially since the places rented by the City are not registered and that these outdoor parking space for regular yield circus, children's festival and other leisure activities. Ten million
waiting
With over 5000 cars registered for some 17,000 current residents, Nyon must still be expected to increase its fleet with the expected demographic development up to 25,000 souls by ten years.
For two decades, all new construction must be accompanied by corresponding parking spaces. A rule difficult to apply old city. The exceptions are the subject of compensation paid into a fund reserved for public parking. It is currently in a surplus of more than 10 million francs, not counting the 1.2 million collected through parking fees in 2005 and future revenue from the Shore area. "But impossible to provide enough places for all vehicles. If the City is a shareholder of the Duchy, the fund does not allow us to build our own car parks. We are studying the possibility to assign a party to the development of public transport, other sinews of war for urban mobility, "concludes the municipal in announcing the appointment of a specialist next transportation issues in Nyon.
For two decades, all new construction must be accompanied by corresponding parking spaces. A rule difficult to apply old city. The exceptions are the subject of compensation paid into a fund reserved for public parking. It is currently in a surplus of more than 10 million francs, not counting the 1.2 million collected through parking fees in 2005 and future revenue from the Shore area. "But impossible to provide enough places for all vehicles. If the City is a shareholder of the Duchy, the fund does not allow us to build our own car parks. We are studying the possibility to assign a party to the development of public transport, other sinews of war for urban mobility, "concludes the municipal in announcing the appointment of a specialist next transportation issues in Nyon.
Source: GHI
