Georgia: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Tsqaltubo has one driving restriction on our books: the ქალაქ წყალტუბოს ადმინისტრაციულ ერთეულში საგზაო მოძრაობის ორგანიზების… (limited traffic zone). What is a limited traffic zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-19, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2027-03-19.
Tsqaltubo is a spa town in Imereti, and its central park — the ring of sanatoria and mineral baths the town exists for — is closed to motor traffic by a set of "no entry" signs rather than by a charge, a permit or an emission class.
The rules are an annex to decree №7 of the Tsqaltubo Municipality Sakrebulo, adopted on 28 May 2026 and in force since it was published on 1 June 2026, made under article 16(2)(k) and article 61(2) of the Local Self-Government Code and article 7(3) of the Georgian Road Traffic Act.
The annex does four things and two of them restrict driving: item 1 installs the prohibitory sign "შესვლა აკრძალულია" — No entry, sign 3.1 — at the entrances to the central park and at named approaches around it, and item 4 installs "სატვირთო ავტომობილების მოძრაობა აკრძალულია" — freight vehicles prohibited, sign 3.4 — at three junctions. The other two items, sign 3.27 (no stopping) near the market on A.
Tsereteli street and sign 3.28 (no parking) at the school, the Cold Lake car park and one park entrance, are stopping and parking rules rather than access rules, and this record does not cover them. There is exactly one written exemption and it is unusually broad: article 4 of the decree says the prohibitory sign does not apply to owners of immovable property located inside the area the sign covers.
No hours are stated anywhere in the decree, no fee exists, and no vehicle is admitted on the strength of its emission class. The decree itself names no penalty — article 3 sends the driver to the Administrative Offences Code of Georgia, whose article 125(7) sets 100 GEL for disregarding a prohibitory sign.