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Written By idontspam - 2 September, 2010
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200 crore for vehicle parking in the BBMP budget and not a mention of charging for the same? @ 5 lakhs per parking meter (Brigade road type) installed every 100 meters one can get 4000 meters & paid parking on 400 kms of roads in Bengaluru for this amount. I am hoping that should cover the CBD and more.
if you assume 10 rupees per hour and the slots are occupied 20 hours a day, there will be around 14 lots per 100 mtrs. So the possible collection amount per day becomes 1.12 crores which translates to a break even in 6 months(non discounted). 20 rupees per hour should get you 200 crores of meter expense alone in 3 months. BBMP can make a killing here. I am sure the cost of the meter will come down if we are looking at 4000 meters instead of the 8 bought for brigade road.
If a parking inspector covers 4km an hour a 2 shift 20 hour schedule will need around 10 inspectors to cover 400 kms. Tow trucks & other ticketing equipment makes up for non recurring cost.
Leave parking buildings to private parties, if there is business sense they will invest. Put that 200 crores on parking ticket machines for CBD, it will mean the first step towards congestion charging. Second step will be corridor/perimeter pricing.
Here is a case study of how other cities have profited from this. Some quotes from the linked case study
Without the income provided by parking, city taxes would have to rise by about 4% or 5%.
People pay 99% of the time
Citizens who work downtown are being urged to take the bus or subway.
COMMENTS
Transmogrifier - 2 September, 2010 - 19:36
So Vietnam, ranked 146 on the per capita GDP scale (source: Wikipedia), is willing to charge 6-9 times ($ 10.00 for daily parking) what we are willing to charge our richest cities ($1.28 for Delhi, $1.09 for Mumbai and $1.50 in Namma Bengaluru) for daily parking.
And yes they are rich cities. PricewaterhouseCoopers notes that Delhi (ranked 37th), Mumbai (ranked 29th) and Bengaluru (ranked 84th) are richer (in some cases way richer) than Ho-Chi Minh City (ranked 95th). In fact Mumbai is ahead of ALL European cities but Madrid (source: Wikipedia).
"Survey only includes covered or under-ground parking garages located in prime CBDs. Parking rate data was collected during the month of June 2010 and includes all relevant taxes."
Wonder where we stand when it comes to good ole' street parking
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idontspam - 3 September, 2010 - 02:14
Transport minister R Ashok, who also handles city affairs, on Saturday said the pay-and-park system would not be introduced in Bangalore. “The tenders invited by BBMP to implement the pay-and-park system at various roads in the city, especially in Central Business District, will be called off,” said Ashok. BBMP had recently invited tenders to introduce automated pay-and-park scheme at 37 roads including MG Road, Brigade Road and Jayanagar.
“The BJP fought tooth and nail to ban pay-and-park in Bangalore when it was sitting in opposition and we will stick to it even now,” said Ashok.
Hazards of taking an uninformed opposing stand, sometimes due to pressure from lobbyists. Now he has to put his foot firmly in the mouth and reverse this decision.
idontspam - 3 September, 2010 - 02:38
Interview with Praveen Sood, Addl CP, Traffic Police
Are you being strict about parking violations also?
Parking spaces in Bengaluru for vehicles is not even 10,000 to 20,000. Where are the parking lots? Maybe 10,000-20,000 vehicles are parked in parking lots. Another couple of lakhs maybe parked in places without obstructing traffic. But lakhs of vehicles are parked in places where it obstructs traffic. You can't tow lakhs of vehicles. We only monitor the arterial roads. We don't do parking enforcement in residential areas and streets.
Towing one vehicle takes half an hour. In a day, a vehicle can tow 20-25 vehicles. You can't tow lakhs of vehicles. Towing is done just to give a flavour to people that this (illegal parking) is wrong. We do parking enforcement in main roads; that too not to the full extend, it's not possible.
But it may not be fair to the motorists as there are not enough parking spaces.
But that is not my problem. Our mandate is to keep the traffic moving, so we will tow vehicles away. So people can't argue that ‘give me the parking space'. When you bought the car, you didn't ask me. So we are not there to give any parking space, BBMP does.
We are in multi authority mode for this. Creation of parking spaces (marking out the lots and making the parking lanes) & installing the meters needs to be done by BBMP. Enforcement is currently done by traffic police. Need to have a meeting with Praveen Sood to find out the ideal model for making the creation & enforcement work together. Need to confirm, but currently all fines including parking collected by police go to the state govt coffers not to the traffic police directly.
Are parking meters reqd everywhere ?
Naveen - 3 September, 2010 - 09:21
The investment on parking meters all over the city will be considerable & even after installing them, enforcement is likely to be lapse with many not paying parking costs. The 'automatic' parking meters at Comm'l st. hence had attendants, who also monitored vehicles & collected cash. The parking meters on every street at short intervals are also likely to add to the woes of pedestrians, who are already struggling to negotiate various obstacles on the sidewalks.
The only way parking can be best enforced is by auctioning rights to collect parking charges on streets or in parking lots for certain fixed periods along select roads per party, & employ attendants to collect charges, as it was being done previously.
Though this slightly dips revenues for the govt (by bringing in middlemen), it results in more disciplined parking & keeps an efficient check on private traffic, whilst generating lot of additional revenue.
I don't know why govt after govt isn't waking up to this loss, even though most that own vehicles (particularly cars) are non-voters !
Parking rates across the world
idontspam - 2 September, 2010 - 15:18
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