MALLORCA TODAY - Paid parking in Puerto Pollensa from 15 May

Pollensa town hall is putting out to tender the management of parking in Puerto Pollensa, the so-called ORA ("ordenanza reguladora de aparcamiento"), by which there will be two categories of parking covering around 40% of available street-parking spaces in the centre of the resort - a blue zone for general parking and a green zone for local residents who will have to pay (20 euros) to obtain an annual permit. The green zone will cost more, so as to give residents more opportunity of being able to park. For both zones, there will be a maximum parking time of two hours, which seems a bit weird certainly where residents are concerned, though the application of parking times has normally only been during the working day, while will the fact that the green zone is to cost 25 cents more for half an hour really result in there being more places available to residents? Maybe it will. The new system is due to come into effect from 15 May and will remain in effect until October, though it appears that the green zone will not in fact become a reality until next year, criticisms of this delay and indeed criticisms over a lack of consultation emanating from various opposition parties. Furthermore, there is a suggestion within these criticisms that in fact the payment system will operate during the siesta or, as it has been put, during the lunch break when people will have to go and move their cars every two hours. Nothing is ever straightforward in Pollensa.

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