Christmas market: Park+Ride to the city center cheaply and without traffic jams

The city of Aachen operates five Park+Ride parking lots in Aachen. They are located in the Tivoli parking garage (Krefelder Straße), at Westfriedhof (Vaalser Straße), at Hangeweiher (Hermann-Löns-Allee), at Waldfriedhof (Monschauer Straße) and at Jülicher Straße/Berliner Ring. The "Park+Ride-Ticket" is valid daily at all P+R sites. It costs five euros for a return bus ride to the city center and is valid for up to five people. The tickets are available from the bus drivers. At the Tivoli Stadium, the parking ticket is also valid as a ticket.

P+R at the Tivoli Stadium

The parking garage at the Tivoli Stadium offers the largest number of parking spaces. There are 1200 parking spaces there. From Monday to Friday, buses run every 10 to 15 minutes from the H5 Sportpark Soers bus stop to the bus station and back to the stadium. On Saturdays, buses even run every 7.5 minutes during the day. The journey to the bus station in the city center takes around eleven minutes.

However, the parking garage is not available on home match days of the Alemannia Aachen soccer club. Alemannia will continue to play until the end of 2024

following Saturdays at the Tivoli Stadium:

• Saturday, November 23
• Saturday, December 7
• Saturday, December 21

More P+R spaces in Aachen

The P+R parking lot at Westfriedhof in the west of the city on Vaalser Straße offers 179 spaces. From the bus stop there, buses leave every five to ten minutes in the direction of Elisenbrunnen and Bushof. They take around 14 minutes to the city center.

The P+R parking lot at Hangeweiher in the southwest on Hermann-Löns-Allee offers 120 spaces and is the only one within the environmental zone. Accordingly, a sticker is required. From the nearby Goethestraße stop, buses on line 2 run every 15 minutes to the Elisenbrunnen stop in around nine minutes.

In the south of Aachen there is the P+R parking lot Waldfriedhof on Monschauer Straße. There are 99 spaces available here. Buses leave from there every 10 to 20 minutes in the direction of Elisenbrunnen / Bushof. The journey takes 21 minutes.

And in the east of the city there is the Jülicher Straße/Berliner Ring P+R parking lot with 80 spaces. Buses leave every 7.5 minutes from the nearby Prager Ring stop in about 11 minutes in the direction of Bushof/Elisenbrunnen

P+R in the Aachen transport network

There are also free P+R spaces for cars at 35 train stations and stops in the Aachener Verkehrsverbund (AVV). Over 4,500 cars can be parked there.

Mobility dashboard: https://verkehr.aachen.de

Short link: www.aachen.de/parkandride

Internet: www.aachenbewegt.de