Parking policy: Bengaluru looks to Delhi

By Manoj Sharma

Roadside Parking may well be banned quickly


As the city struggles to house its expanding choice of vehicles, the Urban Development Department (UDD) of Karnataka is mulling a parking coverage similar to what’s being followed in the national capital. A gathering on that is to be held on May 18 between the UDD, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT), and the traffic police.

The UDD has proposed to use ideas from the draft regulations of the ‘Delhi Maintenance and Management of Parking Rules, 2017’, editing them to easiest swimsuit Bengaluru’s unique instances. Importantly, the parking coverage appears to be like to put in force restrictions on avenue parking, and introduce charges.

In his letter to the BBMP, DULT and Bengaluru Traffic Police, Mahendra Jain, Additional Chief Secretary to Government, UDD stated: “The draft seeks to prioritise short-duration parking and put in force restrictions on long-duration parking (including on-street parking) and prohibit parking on avenue no less than up to 50 metres from road intersections. A traffic tracking gadget via an Apex Committee is also proposed, together with parking in puts like cinema halls, hospitals, malls, etc.”

What Delhi’s coverage says

The Delhi Maintenance and Management of Parking Rules, 2017 tackles more than a few issues over 17 points. These come with on-street, off-street and multi-level car parking; overnight parking of shipping vehicles; requirement of parking evidence for shipping vehicles; parking at airport, railway and Metro stations; parking in residential areas; penalty and towing charges; charging facility for electric vehicles and utilisation of parking earnings.

About on-street parking, it says that “the automobile parking space equipped within the structures/development complexes… should be fully utilised ahead of allowing any on-street parking.”

It also says that the “design shall reduce war between parking, strolling and biking. Pick up and drop facilities shall be prioritized over the parking facilities”.

“On-street parking shall now not be allowed no less than up to 50 m from the intersections on every arm of road. The parking shall be equipped at a cheap secure distance from the pedestrian crossings and gates of fireplace stations, electric substations and hospitals,” it says. The draft emphases that short-duration parking should get priority over lengthy duration, on-street parking.

In residential areas

The area parking plan made through civic agencies would come with, of their scope, parking preparations inside of residential areas. The plan inside of such areas shall be made in session with the citizens or citizens’ welfare associations.

Points made in the draft:

Parking might be allowed in demarcated areas on public streets and open surfaces in residential areas against parking charges to be made up our minds through civic agencies on the foundation of Base Parking Fee. Civic agencies should seek the advice of the RWAs about parking charges and the mode of management of parking in residential areas including outsourcing of assortment parking charges.

In case of residential structures, where stilt parking has been built… and but citizens park their vehicles on public streets, the parking charges shall be two times the traditional charges.

Owners of vacant plots in residential colonies will have to be authorised for use of the ones plots as parking puts.

No parking on footpaths

The draft regulations introduced through the UDD also mentions overnight parking of shipping vehicles. It seeks to ensure that lets in for shipping vehicles are granted or renewed handiest upon submission of evidence of automobile parking space.

It also suggests that the local civic frame, together with DULT and Bengaluru Traffic Police, shape an Apex Monitoring Committee headed through Chief Secretary of Government of Karnataka, to check the implementation and compliance.

UDD’s Mahendra Jain informed BM: “It is crucial to have a rational parking coverage, each for on-street parking and off-street to satisfy the target of convenience for common public and to verify free motion of traffic. Local frame will have to get reasonable returns from the parking coverage to pay for the funding in parking infrastructure.”

“It is with this in view that we are taking into consideration to have scientific parking coverage for the city. Long-duration parking might be located most commonly in off-street facilities or in purely residential areas. On-street parking will handiest be permitted in designated areas away from intersections. Non-motorised vehicles gets priority over motorised. Transport vehicles can handiest be parked in designated areas. Charging facilities for electric vehicles might be integral a part of parking coverage. Illegal parking might be strictly dealt with. Transparent, efficient and sensible parking management techniques might be applied on PPP mode,” he stated.


WHAT CITY CAN EXPECT


* Long-duration parking in off-street facilities or purely residential areas

* On-street parking handiest in designated areas away from intersections

* Non-motorised vehicles gets priority over motorised

* Transport vehicles can handiest be parked in designated areas

* Charging facilities for electric vehicles

* More trouble for unlawful parking

* Smart parking management techniques on PPP mode

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