The Hindu 17.06.2013
Get ready to pay again
You’ve heard it before: very soon, you may have to pay
for parking your vehicles on the city roads. In a bid to push the use of
public transport and solve the knotty parking problem, the Bruhat
Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) will reintroduce the pay and park
system, officially scrapped way back in 2005.
The BBMP council had approved the new parking policy in March 2012 and sent it to the government for approval.
It is understood the government gave its green signal to the policy earlier this year.
The norms
Under
the new policy, the BBMP will fix the parking fees after taking into
consideration the land value, the parking system to be put in place
(whether mechanised or manual) and the hours.
The
guidelines and byelaws are now being framed by the Directorate of Urban
Land Transport (DULT). According to a senior BBMP official, the
directorate is now working on the Parking Regulation and Management
Plan, which will make it easy for the BBMP to put in place.
Core areas first
The
plan is being framed first for the core city areas i.e., the erstwhile
Bangalore Mahanagara Palike area. The official said DULT had already
completed framing the plan for Shivajinagar Assembly constituency and
submitted it to the BBMP. “The plan for the other core areas will be
submitted to the BBMP shortly,” he said.