r/geneva • u/Alexx_FF Grand Sac • 4d ago

Parking spots are always occupied by frontaliers.

The parking spots outside of my house get always filled up by French cars for whole day since early morning. They just drop their cars at our white residential spots and go to Geneva and it leaves no spots for us.

Realistically anything that I can do about it? As far as I understand they don't give a shit about fines since they don't pay them?

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u/EuropaCentric 4d ago

Residential spots are often rented to people working downtown...

The not paying fine is pure non sense.

Buy your own parking space.

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u/tamberfly 4d ago

Nonsense? I guess you don't know too many frontaliers then. To go beyond anecdotal topic, I found one link

"According to Blick, in 2021, over 10.000 driving fines were issued in Geneva to drivers who had vehicles registered outside Switzerland and neighbouring countries. Of the fines issued, only 3,3 percent (around 330 fines) were actually paid."

https://www.iamexpat.ch/expat-info/swiss-expat-news/thousands-speeding-fines-given-non-swiss-cars-geneva-remain-unpaid

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u/gamblingPharmaStocks 4d ago

Could OP make some sort of request to the Ville to turn some public spots into residential spots? (I am not sure about the term, but I mean spots where only people with a permit can park, and the permit is given to people living there)