Seongdong-gu Creates Family-Friendly Parking Lots for Infants and Seniors

Creating Family-Friendly Parking Lots Prioritizing Pregnant Women, Infants, and Seniors... Establishing Basis for Installation in Parking Lots with 30+ Spaces Following September Ordinance Amendment, Pilot Implementation Starting in Second Half of Year

Songjeong-dong Public Parking Lot Family-Friendly Parking Spaces

Seongdong-gu, Seoul (Mayor Jeong Wono) is creating family-friendly parking spaces targeting parking lots with 30 or more parking spaces in preparation for the low birthrate and aging society.

In public or private parking lots with 30 or more parking spaces, at least 10% of the total parking spaces will be designated as family-friendly parking spaces, allowing pregnant women, infants, the elderly, and residents accompanying them to use these spaces preferentially. The district plans to provide customized parking services that consider transportation-vulnerable groups by improving accessibility and parking convenience for those with mobility difficulties.

To this end, Seongdong-gu completed the revision of the "Seoul Special City Seongdong-gu Parking Lot Installation and Management Ordinance" at the end of last September, establishing the basis for converting the existing women-priority parking space installation standards to family-friendly parking space installation. A total of 1,570 parking spaces in 102 public and private parking lots in Seongdong-gu are subject to this.

The family-friendly parking space lines are marked with a white background and a solid flower-hued yellow-brown line, with pictograms and the words "Family-Friendly Parking" also displayed in the same flower-hued yellow-brown solid line. Parking lots that previously had women-priority parking spaces can also use those spaces as family-friendly parking spaces.

The installation locations for family-friendly parking spaces are chosen to be bright areas without blind spots, close to parking lot entrances or elevators to ensure accessibility and safety. They can also be located where they are easily monitored by closed-circuit television (CCTV), in areas with frequent traffic, or adjacent to parking spaces reserved for the disabled.

Seongdong-gu plans to pilot family-friendly parking spaces in 26 public parking lots in the second half of this year and complete the conversion to family-friendly parking spaces by the first half of next year. Additionally, the district will encourage the installation of family-friendly parking spaces in 69 private parking lots to create family-friendly parking environments.

Jeong Wono, Mayor of Seongdong-gu, stated, "We will strive to ensure that transportation-vulnerable residents can use parking lots safely and conveniently through the creation of family-friendly parking spaces," adding, "We will continue to improve customized parking administrative services to realize a smart inclusive city, Seongdong."

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