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Efficient Parking System in Chandigarh

Efficient Parking System in Chandigarh
Start Date :
Aug 26, 2015
Last Date :
Oct 01, 2015
00:00 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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What is wrong with our parking system? ...

What is wrong with our parking system?

Subsidized-modern-hi-tech parking is an oxymoron

Chandigarh car density is highest in the country with 227 cars per 1000 people, but the parking rates that are one of the lowest in the country (Rs.5 for car and Rs. 2 for scooter/ bike). This in fact lies at the root of the parking violations. The parking licensees don’t make enough money to invest in CCTVs, boom barriers and other hi-tech gadgets among other things. They also resort to unlawful means like overcharging, allowing more vehicles than the capacity, allowing other economic activities in the parking lot etc.

Equitable distribution of road space

There should be an equitable distribution of road space in the city. Currently 90% of the road space is taken by 22% of the population that owns cars. The pedestrians and users of non-motorised vehicles are squeezed out of the road because in the absence of cycling lanes etc, it is not safe for them.

What should we be doing instead?

Higher charges for parking spaces would even limit our trips by car. That would cut emissions, alleviate congestion and, as a side effect and improve land use. If the same land is given to the developers, the government can earn much more than it is currently doing. The higher parking rates can augment the city resources which can then be invested in road safety, building dedicated cycling tracks, developing green areas, developing vehicle free zones like European countries.

Cities like London, Milan, Singapore, and Stockholm have imposed congestion tax and made parking expensive. In Chandigarh, we still believe in cheap parking. But, there is actually no such thing as cheap parking. Somebody is always paying for it. In our case it is the city administration, but at what cost?

• Shouldn’t we invest more in public transport systems?
• Shouldn’t we develop more green spaces?
• Shouldn’t we have more dedicated cycling tracks and pedestrian walkways like Singapore and other western countries?
• Should we be really subsidizing the parking for the rich? National Urban Transport Policy talks about parking as a public service but the moot question is if it should be subsidized by the administration and that too for the people who are more than capable enough to pay for it? These are some of the questions which need more public participation and deeper deliberation.

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Maharashtra_1
Maharashtra_1 9 years 5 months ago

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Maharashtra_1 9 years 5 months ago

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Sangeeta Ajay
Sangeeta Ajay 9 years 5 months ago

The Cont. system in Sector 43 Bus stand is fleecing the public by recording wrong checking in time we visit bus stand every weekend and it is a continuous practice. Today it was brought to the notice of authorities in Room no. 7 who said that it was not under their control & we shd file a complaint to the higher authorities which we have dn( the scanned cpy attached)Pl do something about this bitter experience the public faces at the hands of these people whom we pay for convenience

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Sangeeta Ajay
Sangeeta Ajay 9 years 5 months ago

The Cont. system in Sector 43 Bus stand is fleecing the public by recording wrong checking in time we visit bus stand every weekend and it is a continuous practice. Today it was brought to the notice of authorities in Room no. 7 who said that it was not under their control & we shd file a complaint to the higher authorities which we have dn( the scanned cpy attached)Pl do something about this bitter experience the public faces at the hands of these people whom we pay for convenience

mygov_144153794511641261
Nitin Bansal_7
Nitin Bansal_7 9 years 5 months ago

Traffic marshals should be deputed in the parking places since the parking contractors are only concerned with issuing parking slips least bothering as to who is parking where and how. Many parking places are being manned by aged and retired people whose advice goes unheard

Nitin Bansal_7
Nitin Bansal_7 9 years 5 months ago

There should be single entry point and single exit point in all the parking lots. No one should be allowed to enter from the exit point. Strict action should be taken against those who park their four wheelers in the slots meant for two wheelers and vice versa. Parking should be within the designated / marked parking slots.

Raghvendra Kumar Singh_2
Raghvendra Kumar Singh_2 9 years 5 months ago

At first many Traffic police officers is not charge any amount to the people who park their cars, bikes etc in non parking zone accsept the developed cities. Therefore pepole are parking their cars, bikes etc on the road or in non parking zone. At first we have to do something for it.

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Yogesh Chandra Sharma 9 years 5 months ago

पारकीग बील्डीग बनायी जा सकती जहा गाडीया अासानी से एक साथ् रख्ी जा सकती है अाैर उसके िलए िलफट` िससटम का पयाेग करके चार पांच मंिजल बडी इमारत काम में ली जा सकती है। िजससे कम जगह में जयादा गाडीया एक साथ् एक जगह रख् कर पारकीग समसया से िनजात पाया जा सकता है।