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BMC to create temporary parking facilities during festive season

Monday, 28 October 2013 07:58 administrator
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The Pioneer              28.10.2013 

BMC to create temporary parking facilities during festive season

In view of the upcoming festive season, the Bhopal Municipal Corporation will create ‘temporary parking spaces’ at different market places to ease traffic problem.

These temporary parking facilities will be created at the premises of schools and hospitals, a top official of the corporation said.

Meanwhile, BMC Commissioner Vishesh Garhpale has directed officials concerned to send letters to the head of the institutions and organisations near the main market places to cooperate by allowing the area for parking in their premises during the festive season.

Officials at the Corporatin said that the Principals of Sardar Patel Higher Secondary School, Karond, Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Bharat Talkies, Superintendent of Civil Hospital, Bairgarh have also been requested to allow their premises for using temporary parking space.

Bairgarh is a shopping hub for the city people and for people outside the city. During the festive season increase in the number of customers throng the Bairagarh market, which creates parking problem and by providing parking places at nearby places like Bairgarh Civil Hospital would make shopping easy and comfortable.

Huge crowd are witnessed every year in the Karond market and Old City market area Hamidia road, Navbahar sabzi mandi, Azad market, Chowk area and Jumerati area. Parking facility for residents visiting these market places is going to arranged at Karond Government School and Higher Secondary School near Bhopal Railway Station area.

 

BBMP projects to ease traffic shortly

Tuesday, 15 October 2013 07:38 administrator
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Deccan Herald        15.10.2013

BBMP projects to ease traffic shortly

Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is hopeful that the two projects — underpass at Magadi Road-Siddaiah Puranik Road Junction and flyover at 10th Cross Chord Road Junction, Rajajinagar 1st Block will ease traffic jams. 

BBMP hopes to complete the two projects in the next 15 months. The total cost of underpass project at Siddaiah Puranik Road Junction is Rs 30 crore, while for flyover construction at Rajijinagar, Rs 25 crore will be spent. 

Traffic intensity, says BBMP, at Magadi Road- Siddaiah Puranik Road Junction is 8,243 Passenger Car Unit (PCU) per hour during morning peak hour and 7,876 PCU per hour during evening peak hour. Similarly, traffic density at 10th Cross Road Junction, Rajajinagar  is 8,021 PCU per hour during morning peak hour and 8,195 PCU per hour during evening peak hour. 

“It will be four lanes divided bi-directional underpass at Magadi Road Junction and two lane bi-directional flyover at Rajajinagar. BBMP has got grants from the State government. Apart from this, a flyover will be coming up at Shivananda Circle at total cost of Rs 57 crore and DPR is ready,” BBMP Commissioner M Lakshminarayana said.

 

Patil to lay foundation stone of multilevel parking lot in Sector 17 today

Tuesday, 15 October 2013 07:00 administrator
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The Indian Express         15.10.2013

Patil to lay foundation stone of multilevel parking lot in Sector 17 today

UT administrator Shivraj V Patil will lay the foundation stone of a multilevel parking lot in Sector 17 on Tuesday.

While this parking lot will take 18 months to be completed, the Municipal Corporation plans to construct three more such parking lots.

The multilevel parking lot in Sector 17 will have three storeys with two of them being underground. Fitted with lifts, it will accommodate 950 cars.

Mayor Subhash Chawla claims it is a Rs 40-crore project. "Sector 17 is a heritage zone. The kind of construction that can be undertaken here is specified. That is why the multilevel parking lot will be underground apart from surface parking being available," he told a press conference on Monday.

Apart from this, the MC will undertake construction of three more multilevel parking lots once this one becomes operational. One of these will be in Sector 17 on the plot where initially the multilevel parking lot had been proposed, but later it was scrapped after the agency allotted the contract went into arbitration. Following this, the civic body was directed to pay Rs 2.61 crore to the agency. The MC is now planning to appeal against the decision.

Chawla says that after the multilevel parking lots in Sector 17 are complete, the focus will shift to Sector 34. Another multilevel parking lot is proposed for Sector 9. "The response to the multilevel parking lot in Sector 17 will be assessed and then the other proposals will be put into action," he added.

The civic body also proposes to start paid parking in the Industrial Area. A few months back, the area councillor had raised the demand that the parking lots be made paid so that the parking situation could be streamlined. While the first in line is the parking lot in front of Elante mall, the others are being identified.

Proposals are also in the pipeline for ensuring proper usage of the underground parking lots in Sectors 9

and 17. The lack of security of vehicles and problem of accumulation of water in the basement are some of the problems being experienced here.

 
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