Czechia: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Poděbrady has one driving restriction on our books: the Vybraná místa – vjezd s motorovým vozidlem do vybraných míst a částí… (limited traffic zone). The published charge is 100.00 CZK per day. What is a limited traffic zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-15, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2027-03-15.
100.00 CZK per day.
The spa quarter of Poděbrady and both banks of the Elbe through it are closed to motor vehicles by traffic sign, and the town's ordinance č. 8/2023 sets the price of the permit that lets you past. Article 3 lists the places in words and leaves nothing to a map: the pedestrian zone running from Pionýrů through náměstí T.
G. Masaryka and the streets Lázeňská and Divadelní, which is the spa colonnade; the part of Divadelní between Na Valech and Jiřího náměstí; the pedestrian zone on Jiřího náměstí itself; the streets Labská, Na Dláždění, Turinského and Šternberská; Zámecké nábřeží and Labské nábřeží, the two Elbe embankments; and the dead-end stretch of Studentská up to the rear gate of the Dr. Filip sanatorium.
A day costs 100 Kč, and unusually for a Czech town there is a full ladder above it — 200 Kč a week, 800 Kč a month, 1 200 Kč a quarter, 1 600 Kč a half-year and 3 200 Kč a year — so a week costs what two days cost and a year costs what thirty-two days cost.
The charge falls due at the moment the permit is issued, and there is no waiver of the declaration for a single day, which Františkovy Lázně and Pec pod Sněžkou both grant: in Poděbrady you file the declaration at the latest when you apply.
Nobody pays who is registered as living inside the zone or owns property there, nor their close family, spouses and children, nor anyone using property inside it for business or public-benefit activity, nor holders of a ZTP or ZTP/P card and their companions. The ordinance took effect on 1 January 2024 and repealed the town's 2021 one; the national register records it as Platné.