about the lack of progress in implementing parking reforms in Delhi and the NCR. These reforms are seen as crucial to reducing air pollution, particularly from private vehicles. It has issued a notice
Mumbai: Though the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans a four-fold increase in parking charges, frequent users of parking lots need not worry as the civic body will soon introduce a monthly pass scheme for them with special discounts. With this, the BMC intends to do away with the touts who have been issuingmonthly passes 'unofficially'.
AHMEDABAD: Free parking could soon become a thing of past. Infact, it could be banned altogether in some parts of the city. For the first time, city's municipal administration has begun talking of a parking as well as an advertising policy. These moves are aimed at making public transport more likable for the denizens.
This recent study by Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority is an effort to improve public understanding of the challenges that parking of vehicles present and the ways parking regulations can be leveraged to restrain traffic in Indian cities.
Global experience bears out that parking management is one of the most powerful instruments to reduce travel by personal vehicles that also influences commuting choices in favour of public transport. Parking
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
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
THE controversial tax on long-stay car parking in central Melbourne is here to stay, despite a review of the $820 levy beginning next year. Roads Minister Tim Pallas has signalled the tax, which aims to reduce road congestion, will remain and has the backing of Premier John Brumby. "The Government sees no reason why that levy can't continue to operate," Mr Pallas told radio station 3AW. "The Premier's view has been that he sees the continuation of the tax as being appropriate."
Motorists owe more than $50 million just to Melbourne's inner city councils and a large part of that is written off as doubtful debt. At last count, Victorian councils were owed a total $140 million in unpaid parking fines and associated fees, according to the Municipal Association of Victoria. Since then, in 2006, the State Government introduced sanctions for fine-dodgers, including wheel clamping or suspension of registration. Attorney-General Rob Hulls said yesterday the new measures were sending "a clear message to the community that ignoring your fines does not make them go away".
Delhi municipality proposes low annual parking fee at a time when stiff parking fees are fast becoming an effective deterrent against car purchasing the world over, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi is contemplating reduced parking charges. The municipality has a proposal for a yearly levy which will tantamount to vehicle owners paying far less than what they currently pay for parking.
