Jan Emanuel: « Some days I get three parking fines »

Early afternoon at Östermalm in central Stockholm. A white Mercedes AMG GT slides with a warm roaring into a parking lot. Or maybe rather half a parking lot. The scream is not even close to getting a seat. A brave third stands out behind the post showing where the parking lot really ends.

But it is not so careful. The driver is called Jan Emanuel. The entrepreneur and ex-politician have made themselves known as a notorious and proud parking.

– So, I park so no one else suffers from it. I would never ever stand on a handicap and I have great respect for professional traffic. But this …, says Jan Emanuel, pointing to the part of his monster mercury that is beyond that post.

– … that kind of thing I shit perfectly. Since I can not in any way cause someone to be hit, I ignore it.

He tells him he now Stays abroad during the winter. This has affected the average for the number of parking fines per month.

-Previously, I could have months with around 15 p-fine. But some days I get three parking fines nowadays. In the past you had to stand for 24 hours on a cure, but you have done that now. In some places you can only stand for three hours.

Jan Emanuel explains that he is particularly fond of parking in places that are reserved for so -called mission vehicles, ie vehicles with diplomatic signs.

– « Oh no, an ambassador who gets no parking, » he says with a ridiculous voice.

-The upper-class guys I shit in. These are my VIP parking places.

Jan Emanuel is constantly disputed. But of all he goes for, nothing provokes the surroundings as much as his slingy attitude to parking. He notes that himself.

– People get really angry when I post something in social media if I have been fined. It’s really a super trigger. But what I do is pay extra tax. I know the patchwork. They moan on me and tanned.

Statistically, Jan Emanuel’s parking anarchism is not very representative. The Stockholmers are getting better at parking correctly. According to Stockholm City’s most recent measurement in the autumn of 2024, the so -called legal parking rate is 94 percent in the inner city. This can be compared with 83 percent in the fall of 2015.

That the miscarriage is reducing In turn, the city’s revenue for P-fines also does. The development is so clear that it affects the budget – the city budgets with getting money from parking fees.

« It is positive that people park more right, but now we get less money, » says Malinda Flodman, press officer at the traffic office in the City of Stockholm.

She explains that the money from the parking fees goes into the traffic office’s budget and then used to take care of Stockholm’s streets and squares. According to Malinda Flodman, you can thus say that the parks help the city.

Parking expert Stefan Wahlberg has previously criticized the city budgeting for citizens to park errors. The According to him, risks leading to p-terror. Jan Emanuel is on the same line. He calls it a deeply unhealthy idea.

– The point of parking guards is that professional traffic should have access to loading places, that people should not be hit and that large cars should not stand for close crossing points and so on. But now the directive for the parking guards becomes zealous for the steel to be in.

Malinda Flodman believes that the recession may be an explanation for the parking morale being tightened.

– It costs some to park wrong, but that is also the purpose. The intention is to do right. In any case, the trend is clear, people park more and more right, she says.

Even Jan Emanuel believes that the increasing The correct parking rate is linked to the times becoming tougher.

– It’s a business cycle. When people have less money, they become more accurate.

In the middle of the conversation, Jan Emanuel’s son comes rushing in an almost as expensive car as Dad’s. It turns out that he is about as consciously lousy to park as his father. Jan Emanuel smiles a wry smile.

« Dad up in the day, » he says, and shocks.

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