The Paloheinä ski trail is free for you, not for the city – So pay the euro

About parking have to pay, the people were enraged!

The most recent news is about the following: The city of Helsinki decided to start collecting parking fees in the sports parks of Paloheinä, Meilahti, Pirkkola and Käpylä.

The reason for charging is the increased maintenance and other costs of sports facilities.

Parking in Paloheinä has cost one euro for three hours since autumn. When the ski season started, of course the crowd followed.

Helsingin Sanomat interviewed tuku skiers in Paloheinä. Among them, they wondered, among other things, why the city had established a “sakorysä” in the ski paradise.

We are at the heart of traditional Finnish middle-classness, when the euro parking fee for using a ski slope maintained with public funds breaks the camel’s back.

It’s hard to come up with a situation that evokes less sympathy than the fact that a daily exerciser who stuffed five pairs of Fischers in the ski box of his city SUV gets hit with a parking ticket because he didn’t agree or understand to pay the euro.

There are two remedies for this national tragedy, neither of which will drive skiers to death or be a valid reason to quit the sport:

1. Pay that euro.

2. Use a bus, bicycle, apostolkyut or arrange a carpool with a ski resort, so you can halve the euro payment.

This one There are many things in today’s society that you can be angry about for a reason.

Prices are rising, salary trends are dismal and company change negotiations are darkening the daily news.

In this case, the parking money goes towards the maintenance of sports facilities. That if someone is the proper purpose. Right?

For example, skiing in Paloheinä or running on the piru track in Meilahti or Pirkkola is completely free for enthusiasts.

Then when a euro is charged for it, the nation’s staunchest ranks gather together The song of hunger.

I myself am an active private car driver. I don’t particularly like parking fees, but they have an essential purpose in urban conditions. It’s not vaccinating the driver.

Let’s take an everyday example.

If you’ve ever talked about how the state can’t always live in debt, you’ll understand the cough.

There are many people in Finland who can barely afford food or rent. I sympathize with their situation.

On the other hand, I don’t think they will be the first to park their car when Paloheinä starts to rustle.

If you can afford to come skiing with your own car and expensive equipment, you can probably find the euro for the parking fee.

Someone has also paid for the ski slope you are using.