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Written By Naveen - 26 September, 2010
Bangalore parking traffic management Enforcement paid parking pay & park
Further to the meeting with Mr Praveen Sood, AdCP-Traffic, a project will be necessary to identify a workable approach to re-introduce parking regulations in the city.
A further long-term objective for the project would be to investigate possibilities for enforcement of congestion or cordon pricing, particularly in the CBDs.
The benefits from these would be :
1) Streamlining parking procedures in the city.
2) Orderly streets with less clutter of vehicles parked haphazardly.
3) Restraining traffic growth that will lead to lesser street congestion.
4) Possibilities for better performance of street-based public transport with congestion reduction.
5) Reversing the prevailing trend of excessive dependence on private vehicles & their dominance on the roads.
6) Reduced air pollution with reduction of vehicle volumes, etc.
As a precursor for the project, some ideas & discussions are desirable to determine problems & obstacles such as poor parking monitoring, possible sources of parking revenue leakages, well entrenched vested interests, possible opposition by public, etc..
Appreciate others' views & suggestions in this regard.
COMMENTS
Scanned policy of BBMP parking policy?
vinay_sreenivasa - 2 October, 2010 - 16:17
IDS,
Were you able to scan and post the BBMP parking policy?
Thanks,
Vinay.
idontspam - 26 September, 2010 - 06:58
It will help to identify an area and pilot it there. As discussed Koramangala is a good microcosm of overall Bangalore with commercial+residential mixed use.
silkboard - 26 September, 2010 - 16:42
If you can avoid cash transactions at the parking lot, you can control leakage as well as get monitoring done (using the device that you'd use for payment transaction).
Some wild thoughts:
- RTO has been issuing RC books as smart cards (so I read, haven't seen one myself). Can these be upgraded to have proximity cards? Park near a sensing meter, and you record a transaction. Pay aggregated parking fees every month or quarter at RTO / Bangalore One or BBMP website?
- Driver's Cell phone as the payment device? A data base linking Vehicle to cell phone would be a nice "side-benefit". Attendants or machines can just record car license numbers at random. If the number is not found to have a cell phone payment transaction on the same day, you can fine people.
rs - 26 September, 2010 - 16:59
I suppose the RTO can issue some sort of card which can be used - but that would exclude people who are not from Bangalore. The Cell phone idea is a good one as I'm sure a lot more people have cell phones than credit cards.
As far as enforcement is concerned - I think the best thing is to privatize this. One can require the private enforcer to take a digital photograph of the violation which shows clearly the licence plate and the violation. This would prevent unjustified fining. The whole process - including collection of the fee can be outsourced. In any case nowadays one can pay traffic fines online quite easily.
Ramesh
idontspam - 17 September, 2011 - 14:41
there was a plan to impose Rs 50 parking fee per month on all those who use the Corporation built road for parking in front of their houses... there was also a thinking that, those who own more than one car, will have to prove that they have parking facility at their house, failing which the additional cars will not be permitted to be registered
Very good plan, should be supported. I would be very interested in the details of it, especially how they plan to do this without a permit system. How they take care of visitor parking on the street & the enforcement aspect. Who are the transportation experts they have asked about this, how much study of such systems worldwide they have done & the notes regarding the same. Knowing the BBMP they will never detail it enough to be effective. It will have loop holes the size of Bangalore potholes.
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