The Times of India 03.11.2009
PCMC opens 2 new free parking lots
PUNE: The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has developed two new free parking lots for shoppers and residents of the township. The parking lots are located near the highway stretch at Pimpri and Chinchwad.
Speaking to TOI, Ashish Sharma, municipal commissioner, PCMC said that the parking lots would have green and yellow stripes so that people could identify them.
One of the new free parking lots is off the Pune-Mumbai highway along the road from Ahilyabai Holkar chowk, Morwadi in Pimpri to the Indira Gandhi flyover. It is at the open triangular space behind Kamala Crossroads. Officials from the PCMC engineering department said that the PCMC owns half the space which can accommodate 150 cars or 450 two-wheelers.
The other parking lot is near D Mart shopping mall along the Mumbai-Pune highway in Chinchwad. It has a parking space sufficient for 50 cars or 150 four-wheelers.
Speaking to TOI, Aniket Jadhav, a shopper from Chinchwad said, "This area never used to have an authorised parking place. Everyone would park their vehicles along the highway and get fined by the traffic police for doing so. The free parking has come as a welcome respite,"
According to Ashish Mane, a resident of Bhosari, "A large number of commercial and shopping complexes have come up in the past few years along the highway. Since they have no parking space, the new parking lots will help people who come to these complexes."
Earlier, the PCMC had created two parking lots along the Pune-Mumbai highway. These are located near Kamala Crossroads in Pimpri and near Big Bazaar in Chinchwad. The parking lot along the highway near Kamala Crossroads has parking space for 50 cars and 50 two-wheelers. The parking lot along the highway near Big Bazaar has space for 40 cars and 50 two-wheelers.
