the parking meters of Faro will be charged again, after more than nine months off. Charged surface parking will be reactivated in the Algarve capital «on September 9th», now under the public management of the municipal company Ambifaro, told the Sul Informação the mayor of Faro.
According to Rogério Bacalhau, practically everything is ready for Ambifaro can finally start taking income from the city's parking meters which have been disabled since December, which are the vast majority of those in the city – those existing next to the Doca de Faro and those in Largo do Carmo are still under concession to private entities.
«Everything is prepared. We have now concluded the tenders to hire the necessary people and, on the 9th, we started the operation», said mayor Farense.
Apart from the change of management from a private entity to a public company, “everything remains the same. The tariff zones are the same, the tariffs are the same. We have not made any changes to the regulation'.
As for resident cards, “they remain valid until the end of the year, but after that new requests will have to be requested. But, to speed up the process, all cards that already existed keep their validity until December 31st. Renewal requests can be made as of October», explained Rogério Bacalhau.
In cases where people have lost existing cards, “they can go to Ambifaro ask for a duplicate'.
At the end of 2018, the Chamber of Faro decided not to renew the contract it had with a company, which operated much of the city's parking meter network. At the time, the municipality's forecast was that tariffs would be charged again in January, already with Ambifaro ahead of operations.
But the pretension of the executive led by the Social Democrat ran into votes against the opposition, in the Municipal Assembly. A lead that, Rogério Bacalhau said at the time, questioned Ambi's financial viabilityfaro, who needed the revenue from the parking meters, estimated at around one million euros a year, to meet its financial obligations, largely linked to the construction of the Municipal Market in Faro, equipment that is managed by this municipal company.
In July, the executive's new proposal for the move to Ambifaro management of most surface toll parking zones was approved in AM, thanks to the vote in favor of a member of the PS bench, José Jerónimo, the president of the União de Freguesias de Conceição e Estoi.
Since then, Ambifaro has been preparing the ground to reactivate the parking meters, which will happen in just over a week.
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