Special pockets were arranged on Malienas street back in 2018 to prevent residents from parking in overcrowded courtyards and instead park along the street.
It has suddenly become apparent that the parking prohibition signs are being applied to these special pockets as well. And fines are being left on windshields.
The Department of Environmental and Mobility, which ordered these pockets and approved the projects, does not agree with this approach. But it is not the department that is placing fines on windshields.
There is currently no unified understanding of this issue among municipal structures. The district court ruled that the parking prohibition signs also apply to parking pockets.
The department hastily removed the prohibitive signs. Although they were installed near trees and lamp posts that protrude towards the roadway, parking there is indeed not advisable as it obstructs traffic on the narrow Malienas street, which is why the signs were put up eight years ago. For two and a half five-year periods, no one thought that special parking pockets would be defined as places where parking is prohibited.
It is difficult to predict what will happen in winter, as the signs have been removed, but if cars start parking near the lamp posts that protrude towards the roadway, only one bus will be able to "squeeze through," and they will not be able to pass each other.
Of course, one could "adorn" each post with a prohibitive sign and a sign indicating a zone of action of "5 meters," but would that be practical? It reminds one of the Latin saying "Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus" - "Let the world perish, but let justice prevail." The fines that have already been imposed remain in effect.
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