Borja Carabante, delegate of Urbanism, Environment and Mobility, has informed that vehicles in Madrid, whether they have an environmental label or not, will be able to park in the neighborhood where they are registered. The consistory is considering this possibility a week after José Luis Martínez-Almeida, mayor of Madrid, announced that residents’ vehicles will be able to enter the city without an environmental sticker until 2026.
Through the Mobility Ordinance, the municipal legal services are working so that all drivers in the municipality will be able to park their cars in the SER (Regulated Parking Service) zones of their neighborhood in 2025. This initiative will give margin to the owners of polluting vehicles to adapt to future restrictions in the Low Emission Zone (ZBE).
Twelve months of margin
Although it was planned that as of January 1, 2025, no car would be allowed to enter the capital without an environmental label, the improvement of air quality in Madrid during 2024 has led to a change of plans: the consistory has extended the warning period on pollution restrictions.
For the next twelve months, both cars registered in Madrid and motorcycles and goods vehicles belonging to category A will be able to enter the capital without receiving the €200 fines promised by Martínez-Almeida this summer.
Carabante has stated that, if registered vehicles without a sticker can enter the city, “the logical thing” would also be that they can use parking spaces.