Szczecin: Changes in ticket fares starting from April

This is a reminder that on 1 April ticket fares in our city will change. Please plan your ticket purchases carefully, especially of periodical tickets. Next month also brings changes in the paid parking zone, with a new bus line being added within its area.

While in the difficult time of the pandemic the authorities of metropolises are seeking savings and raising ticket prices, Szczecin is adopting an opposite strategy.

A reduction of periodical ticket prices is to serve as an incentive for using municipal transport. The activities are coherent and not limited to the sustainable transport policy but also to parking rules. The plans are long-term, and their direction is already known.

It's been confirmed. Szczecin will reduce municipal transport ticket prices.

“Among others, periodical tickets will be cheaper in our city,” said Hanna Pieczyńska, the press spokesperson of the Roads and Public Transport Authority. “The revolution in ticket fares begins on 1 April, so we urge passengers to make considerate purchases.

Among others, the following periodical tickets will have reduced prices:

- personal ticket for one normal day line: PLN 60.00 standard, PLN 30.00 discounted

- personal network ticket for normal day and night lines, excluding tourist lines: PLN 80.00 standard, PLN 40.00 discounted

- personal ticket for one fast day line: PLN 80.00 standard, PLN 40.00 discounted

- personal network ticket for all lines, excluding tourist lines: PLN 140.00 standard, PLN 70.00 discounted

- bearer network ticket for all lines, excluding tourist lines: PLN 150.00.

Municipal transport is one of the most important elements of the living urban tissue. The development of each city depends on its sustainable transport policy. In Szczecin the change process began several years ago and is ongoing. We are still awaiting its completion, and extensive discussions of the issue have brought plans of changes in the paid parking zone, which triggers further decisions.

From 1 April the new line 90 will run within the zone. It will be a circular line running on weekdays from 6 a.m. yo 6 p.m. every 15 minutes . The final works involving the demarcating of stops along its route are being carried out.

Let us remind you that the Paid Parking Zone in the current shape does not meet its primary goal, which is enforcing car rotation at the required level.

The number of vehicles registered in Szczecin has exceeded 300,000. This is twice as high as in2005. 88,000 cars enter Szczecin every day.

“The average number of free parking spaces in the rush hours dropped to a critical level of 2.9%,” said Hanna Pieczyńska. “The situation on the outskirts of the zone is every worse. The normal level of free parking spaces is 15-30%. 

Insufficient car rotation in the city centre is caused primarily by an extensive number of subscriptions and flat-rate charges. Vehicles with long-term parking charges occupy half of the zone. Thus the necessity to change the structure of the price list and shift the emphasis from subscriptions and flat-rate charges to short-term charges available in parking machines or through moBILET and SkyCash mobile apps.  

- There are no annual subscriptions in the new price list.

- They will be replaced with a subscription for a selected number of working days (max 23) costing PLN 30 per day for zone A and PLN 20 per day for zone B.

- Monthly subscriptions (PLN 150 for zone B and PLN 240 for zone A) will be available only for individuals and companies paying taxes in Szczecin.

- Annual flat-rate charge for residents of the zone will increase from PLN 96 to PLN 360.

- The charge for the first hour in zone B will be PLN 2.8 (now PLN 1.6), and in zone A PLN 3.6 (now PLN 2.8).

- There will also be a previously non-existent zero charge for the first 15 minutes.

The price list of the Szczecin Paid Parking Zone has not changed since 2012. Most Polish large cities raised their charges in 2020.

In Lublin the first hour in zone A costs PLN 3.90, in Poznań drivers pay PLN 7 for the first hour in the City Centre Parking Zone, and in Kraków the first hour of parking in zone A costs PLN 6.  On 4 January 2021  new charge rates were introduced in Warsaw. The first hour of parking costs PLN 3.90, the second PLN 4.60 and the third – PLN 5.50. In Wrocław the charge for the first hour of parking in zone A from March onwards will be PLN 7.

Changes in the Paid Parking Zone are part of the New Parking Order, which the City is going to implement in the next few years. The main goal is to achieve sustainable mobility, i.e. to create a system in which various forms of moving around the city (walking, public transport, cycling, driving) complement each other.