Municipality to launch Riyadh Parking Project next month

Riyadh Municipality installed more than 60 solar-powered parking payment machines and over 180 guidance panels in two weeks since the launch of the trial-run phase of the Riyadh Parking project.

This covers more than 2,000 public parking spaces on commercial streets and over 17,000 unpaid parking spaces in residential neighborhoods adjacent to the paid parking areas.

The official launch is scheduled for next month, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

During the trial phase, the Riyadh Parking Project website received over 500,000 visits, and more than 7,000 users registered on the mobile application that offers various digital payment methods. It is available on iOS and Android operating systems.

As a key component of the city’s public parking plan, the project aims to improve the quality of life by organizing public parking, reducing cases of illegal parking, and facilitating the flow of traffic.

The Riyadh Municipality launched Phase I of the Riyadh Parking Project to create and manage over 24,000 public parking spaces in public and commercial streets, in addition to the management of more than 140,000 parking spaces in nearby residential neighborhoods, Argaam earlier reported.

The first phase covers 12 areas distributed across the Al-Wurud, Ar Rahmaniyyah, West Olaya, Al-Murooj, King Fahd, and Al-Sulaimaniyah districts, in addition to four other areas in the southern neighborhoods of Riyadh.