Saint-Josse made this decision following numerous meetings with the citizens during which the inhabitants explained the problems they encounter daily to find parking spaces. In fact, the municipality of Saint-Josse has the least parking spaces per inhabitant at the regional level, but the highest population density. Therefore, it is only expected that parking remains an important issue for the inhabitants.

Bourgmestre Emir KIR explains that « the commune of Saint-Josse had no other choice than to adapt in turn its time slots to allow its inhabitants to be able to park near their domicile without having to drive around for an hour to find a place. 

Paid parking has been extended from 18:00 to 21:00 throughout the territory of the municipality of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode.

Therefore, public parking fees are paid in restricted areas (green and red zones) from Monday to Saturday from 9:00 to 21:00, unless other otherwise defined by the sign or timestamps.

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They are planning to further reduce this number by 65,000 spots by 2030. The plan is to replace them with 20,000 parking spots for residents, but these spots will be located away from main roads.

What is more, the pricing policy will probably change as to encourage out-of-main-road parking.

Parking remains one of the biggest issues for the mobility sector in Brussels.

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Scan cars have been proving their effectiveness in Schaerbeek over the last few months. Encouraged by this success, the City of Brussels now also wants to use this new technology.

Twice as many checks

The new scan cars permit twice as many daily car checks to be made as those traditionally made by parking enforcement officers. Thus, in the coming weeks, a larger number of offenders will be compelled to comply with the city’s parking rules, which in turn will hopefully make it easier for everyone to find a parking space in Belgium’s capital.

Letters now sent directly to offenders

Another novelty is the replacement of parking tickets placed on cars’ windscreens by a letter that is sent directly to the offender. This eliminates the risk of disappearance or loss of the parking ticket. Anyone who decides not to pay for his or her parking space will also be notified with a letter reminding them of the city’s parking policy (which can be found here.)

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Brussels Environment has made this decision, whose ultimate aim is to reduce the frequency of traffic jams in Belgium’s capital. Don’t you see the point?

Everyday, about 200,000 employees enter Brussels by car to go to work. Though this is not the only reason for the city’s traffic jams, it is definitely a leading cause of them. To address this problem, Brussels Environment wants parking spaces reserved for private companies in public car parks to disappear.

Since local rules require that parking operators renew their licence every 15 years, every new licence will now only be granted if this condition is met. Thus, operators will only have two options going forward: either they must make those spaces previously reserved for private companies accessible to anyone, or they must render the entire car park a “business car park”, in which private companies will only be able to reserve parking spaces at higher than current prices (because of increased taxes).

“This is one of the remarkable measures the Region has taken in order to fight against traffic jams in Brussels and to support mobility,” Pauline Lorbat, spokesperson for Brussels Environment, explained to Belga.

Brussels Environment’s ultimate goal is to encourage the use of public transportation, bikes, scooters etc. Although this might sound a bit problematic to those who are not used to going to work without a car, such measures are, arguably, necessary to reduce the frequency of traffic jams in Belgium’s capital.

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