Thursday, November 19, 2009

Sofia will raise parking tax for blue zone lots

Days after the bye-elections for mayor in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, the municipality has announced plans to increase the fee for parking in the blue zones.

“We will keep unchanged the blue zones in some districts, while in others the fee will go up several times. Parking in parts of the center will be prohibited,” Radoslav Toshev, head of the transport commission at the municipality council, said.

The fee for an hour's stay in the blue parking zones currently stands at BGN 1. To this the mobile operators add the price of the sent text message, except Vivatel, which does not charge the SMS fee.

All who want to pay their parking fees in a hassle-free way have to send a text message to number 1302 for subscribers of the three mobile operators Mtel, Globul and Vivatel.

After sending the SMS, the person gets a reply that the payment was successful. Five minutes before the pre-paid hour elapses, the subscriber receives a notification.

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