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Parking tickets in Vienna: Old tickets will lose validity from July 1, 2025. Penalties are imminent, so you shouldn’t throw them away.
As of January 2025, Vienna has increased parking fees to 1.30 euros per half hour. Vienna parking tickets purchased before January 1 of this year will remain valid. But beware: the period ends on June 30, 2025, after which the old short-term parking permits may no longer be used.
“Anyone who does this anyway is effectively parking without a valid parking permit and must expect a fine of 36 euros for illegal parking,” says ÖAMTC traffic expert Matthias Nagler. So, anyone who parks their vehicle in areas with no valid exemption permit – i.e., the Vienna “parking” sticker—should only use new parking tickets from July 1. The familiar colorful tickets will remain available for 30, 60, 90, or 120 minutes. All those who pay their parking fees digitally via cell phone parking will automatically be charged the increased rates.
“The City of Vienna has refused to return or exchange old parking tickets for several years – anyone who still has them after the deadline, i.e., from July 1, will unfortunately be stuck with them,” explains Matthias Nagler. A procedure that the ÖAMTC club has criticized several times in the past.
Nevertheless, the ÖAMTC expert advises those affected not to throw away expired parking tickets simply: “Anyone who still has large quantities of short-term parking tickets and can no longer use them up should keep them as a precaution – as yet there is no final ruling on whether the refusal to exchange or refund fees is actually legal,” concludes Nagler.
- heute.at/picture: hp
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