Urban India’s parking woes: an overview
Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional
Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional
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Transport in Indian cities headed the wrong way: ministry After a gap of 14 years, the Union Ministry of Urban Development commissioned a study on the state of transport in Indian cities. The data showed Indian cities sinking deeper into a spiral of congestion and air pollution
A range of financial options to choose from City buses need to be affordable as well as comfortable and efficient. It is well known that bus operations would cost anywhere between Rs 20 per km and Rs 50 per km, depending on the cost of the bus and its operating cost (particularly fuel efficiency and staff). Who will pay this cost? In Delhi, for instance, a two-km trip costs Rs 3, and
A number of steps, including formulation of a traffic policy have been taken to ease the vehicular congestion in the city, Home Secretary Abdul Karim told reporters on Thursday.
The interim government is formulating a parking policy strictly prohibiting on-street parking and keeping a provision for high penalties for flouting the rules to ensure smooth traffic in the capital. The policy to be finalised in a month also aims to bring discipline in the transport system of the city, sources in the communications ministry said.
The parking issues of Bangalore are intricately related to the city structure, infrastructure, traffic and management. The one way system proposed for speedy movement within the city and streamlining the traffic had facilitated clear carriageways with removal of parking from the roads.
in the face of stiff opposition from consumer forums, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (nmc) has approved four of the 72 proposed pay-and-park zones. Vehicles can now be parked along the stretch between Khamla Chowk and Punjab National Bank in Pande Lay Out, between Gajanan High School and Mhalgi Nagar Square in Mhalgi Nagar, between Bombay Garments and Central Avenue Road and between
Finally, Delhi gets its first fully automated multi-level parking lot. The system at Delhi HC will house over 1,500 cars Megha Suri | TNN After years of contemplation, the Capital will finally be getting its first fully automated multi-level parking lot where vehicles will be parked without any human intervention. The five-level underground parking, with a capacity to park over
The existing parking crisis of the city takes a seriously turn in Ramadan with Eid shopping getting momentum and shopping zones becoming crammed with vehicles. Shoppers and police blame insufficient parking space in most of the shopping malls for the situation, which is common before every Eid.
The Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh had proposed a multi-level parking lot in Sector 17 around two years ago, looking at the increasing problems of parking in the area. While the problem has now assumed almost alarming proportions, the project is yet to see the light of day.