{"id":2177,"date":"2019-02-20T16:20:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belgrade.tips\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2019-03-30T15:43:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T14:43:09","slug":"traffic-rules-parking-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belgrade.tips\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/traffic-rules-parking-zones\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic rules &#038; parking zones in Belgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We already <a href=\"http:\/\/belgrade.tips\/index.php\/2019\/02\/06\/things-you-might-not-like-in-belgrade\/\">established <\/a>some <a href=\"http:\/\/belgrade.tips\/index.php\/2019\/01\/26\/public-transport\/\">foundation <\/a>for the <a href=\"http:\/\/belgrade.tips\/index.php\/2019\/01\/31\/from-and-to-the-airport\/\">traffic <\/a>in <a href=\"http:\/\/belgrade.tips\/index.php\/2019\/02\/02\/riding-a-bicycle\/\">Belgrade<\/a>. This post should cover a couple of more important things to know about driving or walking through Belgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Driving rules<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Standard things apply &#8211; fasten your seat belt at all times while driving. <strong>Make sure to have your lights\/beams turned on<\/strong>, as the rule in Serbia is to have them on 24 hours per day.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do not talk on your cell phone while driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You<strong> cannot <\/strong>make a right turn at the lights if there&#8217;s no green arrow that&#8217;s turned on. You need to wait for the green light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pedestrian rules<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, the usual things apply. I just have to emphasise two things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Do not talk on your mobile while crossing the street<\/strong>, don&#8217;t even have both headphones in your ears. This is forbidden by law and a police officer might write you a ticket.<\/li><li><strong>Do not expect that vehicles will stop at the pedestrian crossing for you <\/strong>(we call the crossings &#8220;zebra&#8221; &#8211; the animal). This is one of the things that I really don&#8217;t like about driving culture in Belgrade but that&#8217;s how it is. Most of the people will stop, but huge portion will not so take precaution at look at both sides before crossing. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Parking &amp; Towing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>City <g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\">center<\/g> (but also some other parts of the city) are covered by parking zones. There are five zones in total<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Zone A (purple) &#8211; 30 min max parking<\/li><li>Zone 1 (red) &#8211; 60 min max parking<\/li><li>Zone 2 (yellow) &#8211; 120 min max parking<\/li><li>Zone 3 (green) &#8211; 180 min max parking<\/li><li>Zone 4 (blue) &#8211; no limit for parking<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Newest thing city did was to introduce yet another half (in red) and a full hour (in other two zones) after the max limit has been reached. This is a more expensive option but also could come in handy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Important: RED line doesn&#8217;t mean that it&#8217;s forbidden to park there. It&#8217;s just a way for a driver to know that red zone is in that area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can pay for the parking using SMS (only Serbian numbers work), by paying to the parking zones employee, by purchasing a ticket from the nearby kiosk or through a parking machine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/belgrade.tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zone.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2179\" width=\"577\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belgrade.tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zone.jpg 791w, https:\/\/belgrade.tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zone-640x338.jpg 640w, https:\/\/belgrade.tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/zone-768x406.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><figcaption>Parking zone and an (old) sign for the zones (c) Parking Servis<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t pay for the parking spot, two things can happen &#8211; if you rented a car, so it has a Serbia licence, you will get a fine, which is somewhere around 20 to 25 eur based on the zone. If you have a car with a foreign licence plate, you tyre will be locked and you need to call &#8220;Parking Service&#8221; to unlock it (and you have to pay the fine, of course).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretty OK English version about the zones (minus the hideous Comic Sans font they used ?!) can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/parking-servis.co.rs\/eng\/zone-system\/\">HERE<\/a>, so take a look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can easily know in which zone you are, even if there&#8217;s not a sign nearby (and it should be at the start of each street) by looking at the ground &#8211; next to the while line there&#8217;s also red, yellow, green, blue or purple &#8211; that&#8217;s your zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Towing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Do not park on the yellow lines, where it&#8217;s forbidden to park or where there&#8217;s no parking zone. Towing trucks with police inside are looming all around the city and it&#8217;s considered a luck if they don&#8217;t tow you away. Besides the fine, which is around 100 EUR I think, the bigger issue is to find where they took your car and how to get there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are garages around the city that you can park in &#8211; both from &#8220;Parking Service&#8221; but also from shopping malls etc so I suggest using those if you are unsure if it&#8217;s safe to park somewhere or not. Parking Service even <a href=\"https:\/\/parking-servis.co.rs\/eng\/where-to-park\/\">has a handy tool <\/a>at their website with currently available spots in every garage they own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What rules you need to follow as a pedestrian in Belgrade, which ones as the driver? 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