Conservative party in Copenhagen: Drop specifically parking for electric and shared vehicles

Municipal parking spaces in Copenhagen should be freely accessible to all, believes Conservative's mayor candidate.

Electric cars, shared cars and a number of other cars should no longer have an advantage in the competition for parking spaces in Copenhagen. This believes the Conservative's mayor candidate, Jakob Næsager (Photo: © Liselotte Sabroe, Ritzau Scanpix) 8 minutes ago

All too often drivers in Copenhagen drive around and around looking for a parking space, while they have to pass by empty spaces they cannot use.

And that's bad, thinks Jakob Næsager, who is the mayor candidate for the Conservatives in Copenhagen's Municipality.

- There is a lack of parking spaces in Copenhagen. Therefore, it is unfair that there are some spaces reserved for electric and shared cars, which are often empty and never used, he says.

Currently, many of the municipality's parking spaces are indeed reserved for specific types of cars.

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> When we lack parking spaces, and it is expensive to create new spaces, then

> it is about making the most of the municipal spaces.

> Mayor candidate in Copenhagen's Municipality, Jakob Næsager (C)

This applies for example to shared cars, charging stations, embassy spaces and taxi holding spaces.

On the next meeting in the city council, Jakob Næsager will therefore propose to remove all restrictions on municipal spaces.

The Conservative's mayor candidate in Copenhagen's Municipality, Jakob Næsager (C) (Photo: © Søren Bidstrup, Ritzau Scanpix)

- When we lack parking spaces, and it is expensive to create new spaces, then it is about making the most of the municipal spaces. Therefore, we would like to make it possible for all Copenhageners to use all spaces.

The only form of special parking spaces, Jakob Næsager will keep, are handicap spaces.

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A setback in the green transition

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Jakob Næsager expects his proposal to be able to free up more than a thousand spaces for drivers.

But even though there is a lack of parking spaces in Copenhagen, it is not the solution to remove the advantages for electric and shared cars.

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> The reservation of spaces for electric and shared cars has been about encouraging

> more to choose electric cars and switch to a smaller car.

> Spokesperson for the Radical Left in Copenhagen, Christopher Røhl (B)

This thinks Christopher Røhl (B), who is a member of the technical and environmental committee in the municipality.

- The reservation of spaces for electric and shared cars has been about encouraging more to choose electric cars and switch to a smaller car. If we change that now, we are pushing the development in a negative direction, he says.

Spokesperson for the Radical Left in Copenhagen Christopher Røhl (B). (Photo: © Ida Marie Odgaard, Ritzau Scanpix)

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More will abandon electric cars

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In the drivers' interest organization, FDM, it is also believed that Jakob Næsager goes too far with his proposal, because it goes against the green transition.

- In our view, it is fine that a municipality has the opportunity to promote for example electric cars or shared cars by reserving some spaces, which are needed, says chief consultant Dennis Lange

He points to the fact that it is especially a problem if potential electric car owners cannot be guaranteed a space in front of a charging station.

Charging stations in Borgergade in Copenhagen. (Photo: © Liselotte Sabroe, Ritzau Scanpix)

- That would mean that electric cars would be forced to park in front of a gas station. So the safety to be able to charge your car is at risk. And the motivation to have and buy an electric car disappears.

But the concern is shared by Jakob Næsager.

- More than half of all new cars that are bought in Copenhagen are electric cars. So the green transition is going very quickly. Therefore, it is about all cars being able to use all spaces, so no one has to drive around in vain, he says.

It has not been possible to get a comment from the technical and environmental mayor in Copenhagen, Line Barfod (Ø).

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