Andorra: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Andorra la Vella has one driving restriction on our books: the Ordinació de l'1-8-2019 reguladora de l'accés de vehicles a la zona de… (limited traffic zone). What is a limited traffic zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-17, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2027-09-17.
The commercial spine of Andorra's capital is closed to vehicles outright, and the rule is as short as rules get: in the stretch of the avinguda Meritxell between the carrer de la Unió/carrer del Valira and the carrer Bonaventura Armengol/avinguda del Consell d'Europa — plus the carrers Babot Camp, de la Borda, Prat Primer, Sant Salvador and the stretch of carrer Bonaventura Riberaygua as far as the carrer Verge del Pilar — driving and parking are prohibited, permanently, for every type of vehicle.
There is no charge, no emission class and no hour at which the street reopens to traffic. The ordinance defines 'vehicle' broadly enough that the ban catches things a driver might not think of as one: every one-, two-, three- and four-wheeled vehicle, motorised or not, and explicitly bicycles, skates, skateboards and anything analogous.
Three categories are exempt outright, and they are statuses rather than payments — single-seat wheeled vehicles specifically adapted for people with reduced mobility, the fire service, police and ambulances on duty, and the Comú's own service vehicles.
Four more categories may enter, but only on restricted hours and dwell time and only with the Comú's authorisation: drivers of parking spaces inside the zone in buildings authorised before the zone was created and with no other way in, who may drive through to reach the space but may not stop in the public space; service vehicles for building works or services in the zone where the cross-streets will not do; vehicles carrying sick people to an address or a treatment inside the zone, with a fifteen-minute maximum stop that the Servei de Circulació may check; and anyone else who applies with a justification and is granted a comunal authorisation by the Junta de Govern.
Enforcement is automatic and named in the act itself: the Comú may run number-plate recognition cameras that feed a control centre at its own Servei de Circulació, and article 9 provides that infringements are penalised either directly by comunal traffic officers and public-way inspectors or through the sanctioning procedure on the strength of the recorded images.
Deliveries have their own arrangement and it is a refusal rather than a window: goods may not be brought into the pedestrian part of the avinguda Meritxell at all, and must be loaded and unloaded from the car parks or from the bays laid out for it in the adjoining streets. Only on the side streets named in article 1 is there a clock — working days, 08:00 to 11:00, twenty minutes maximum, on the circuits the Comú sets.
The authority to do all of this comes from the Comú's own general ordinance on civic coexistence of 27 September 2018, whose article 23 lets it declare zones with pedestrian priority in which circulation and parking of all types of vehicle are wholly or partly restricted, and whose article 91 fixes what the driver pays for being in one without the right to be.