We are counting money for paid parking in Chelyabinsk. Of course, the exact numbers will become clear at least in a few months, but you can roughly estimate now. given. 1,527 paid parking lots, price tag: 50 pipe/hour. Exceptions: 21 places at 90 ₽ per hour and 15 places at 165 ₽ per hour. A total of 78,915 ₽ per hour. They only work 12 hours a day and only on weekdays. If the payments were taken from the beginning of 2026, then by the end of 2026 (247 working days), with 100% occupancy, 233.9 million rubles would have accumulated. At the same time, sometimes the parking lots are empty, standing for 15 minutes is free, drivers with benefits are not obliged. Let us estimate the utilization rate in Chelyabinsk at 75% (in Moscow - 75-80%). So the potential income is reduced to 175 million per year. costs. We deduct funds for camera maintenance, updating signs and markings and operating four "sentry" vehicles. Salaries for drivers alone can cost 5-6 million rubles. In addition, car maintenance and depreciation. total. It is difficult to estimate the exact costs, but net budget revenues will be approximately 150 million rubles per year. The mayor's office calculated about the same - around 12 million per month (144 million per year). The benefits will be used to develop transportation infrastructure, including the construction of new parking lots. 150 million rubles on the scale of the city budget is ~0.2% (treasury revenues for 2026 are about 69 billion rubles). With this money you can, for example, improve 5 local parking lots. Improving the battery, a system of smart traffic lights and so on is already a matter of hundreds of millions of rubles. In general, 150 million will not affect the budget. Parking is more of a regulatory tool than a real income. And yet I want to believe that they are effectively implemented. Judging by the number of criminal cases in the field of road construction, faith in this matter will not hurt.