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Proposed parking fee jump worries Shenzhen drivers
By Zheng Caixiong and Li Jing (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-09-08 05:39

Shenzhen has about 2,500 kilometres of roads, but it has 746,000 registered vehicles. The city has issued 7,000 new auto licences a month since the beginning of this year.

The vehicle density in Shenzhen is very high, the official said, but the parking fees are lower than in Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou.

In a sina.com survey earlier this year, 88 per cent of respondents in Shenzhen agreed that the shortfall was making parking difficult, but only 19 per cent supported higher parking fees. About 60 per cent suggested building more parking lots. Sixty per cent of the respondents were drivers, of whom two-thirds were also car owners.

Shanghai introduced a price increase for parking last March and will not consider another one in the near future, a local official said.

Beijing, with its 2.4 million vehicles, is mulling over a measure similar to the one in Shenzhen.

The new scheme will use "price differentiation," raising charges by factors such as time, location and the degree of congestion.

Tang Chuanxiong, a Shenzhen car owner, said the price hike is unacceptable to him. "The additional expense alone would equal the minimum monthly wage in our city. That will adversely affect sales of auto vehicles."

Perhaps, as half of the survey respondents said they would, he may want to sell his car and take public transport instead.


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