Yekaterinburg Resident Charged for Exiting Yard Blocked by Mall Barriers

A resident of the South-West district was asked to pay money for exiting the yard territory. Her house is located near the Kit shopping center, which recently introduced a paid parking lot. Residents who leave their cars overnight in their own parking spots, not in the mall«s lot, should be allowed through the barriers for free. But on the morning of January 28, the system apparently malfunctioned.

‘This morning, we were again not let out of the house. 15 minutes of arguments: wasted nerves, being late for work, and a traffic jam of several cars. And it«s like this every day,’ complained a subscriber of the public page ‘Incident Yekaterinburg’.

The operator told the car owner that she had to pay almost two thousand rubles (about $20 at current rates) for 12 hours of parking.

‘Contact the administration of the Kit shopping center so they can add you to the parking lists, if possible. Otherwise, the barrier will never open automatically, and you will constantly need to address this issue,’ explained the parking operator to the woman.

After Kit introduced paid parking, residents of the nearby house, in order to pass, need to install a special application and use it to open two barriers at the entrance and two at the exit. But problems still arise periodically.

‘The administration has created not order, but a mess. Let them put the barriers on the front side, not behind Kit. We should be able to drive home unobstructed. And in the evening, we can«t even enter. Cars are parked on both sides,’ said a reader of ‘Incident Yekaterinburg’.

Paid parking near shopping centers has recently become the norm. Earlier, a payment system was introduced at the huge Veer Mall shopping center. In the fall of 2024, they began installing barriers there because recently a significant number of spots in the parking lot were occupied not by mall shoppers, but by residents of neighboring residential complexes.