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18 multi-level car parking facilities to come up in City
Written By Sanjeev - 17 June, 2011
Bangalore Road Works Analysis Transportation Infrastructure Public Parking
The BBMP has now added eight more locations to the 10 it had proposed earlier, to develop a total of 18 new multi-level car parking facilities.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/169416/18-multi-level-car-parking.html
So more & more Private vechiles will play on the roads & Public Transport will get back seat.
If these so called parking lots if they are provided near METRO stations, then things would be better as BMRCL has not planned any parking except 1/2 places.
What about pay and park on the major streets of Bangalore. Why r elected representatives are keeping quite and most of the roads widened are occupied for parking of Pvt vechiles accross Bangalore.
Do the BBMP or GoK has any idea how many pvt vechiles can be accomodated on all roads of Bangalore ????? If these type of planning goes, then nothing will change the Travell pattern in Bangalore city.
All CBD areas should have high parking fees & excellent Public Transport Facility with well integrated to other modes of Public Transport. Other day we saw elevated roads for Bangalore, Road widening & Elevated car parking will make CBD area chocked..
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18 multi-level car parking facilities to come up in City
R V Raja Rao - 17 June, 2011 - 10:04
18 multi-level parking facilities coming up in Bangalore is a good idea as long as the parking fee charges are prohibitively expensive to discourage entry of more & more Private vehicles. Along with the parking fee congestion charges may also be collected.
To encourage Public Transport System, the authorities should also provide adequate and easily accessible transport facilities to public. A small section of the society will certainly use the parking facility irrespective of the cost. A large number of people will use public transport depending upon the accessibility, connectivity and convenience.
If the same multi-level parking facilities are provided at all metro stations/Railway stations/bus terminal & hubs it would make lot of sense and reduce congestion to a great extent.
rackstar - 17 June, 2011 - 10:06
FOB is not necessary where traffic signal is there. Now signals make some beep or siren like sound to tell when pedestrians can cross the road. Only places where there is no signal and yet lot of pedestrian traffic is there would need FOB. I have seen they installed ped only signals which operate on push button, that is cheaper option than building and maintaining a foot overbridge.
These are current needs, immediate needs
dvsquare - 17 June, 2011 - 15:16
I would say, the multilevel parking are immediate needs, we have to have those in place as per the current needs. This is not about increasing the private vechicles, but as per the current infrastructure, we need many more paid parking facilities at many places in the city, otherwise we have been witnessing a lot of road-side parking, trees-cutting-indirectly-for-parking etc etc.
As I have also stated in my other blog about Madiwala market here, where I don't know whom to blame, govenment doesn't seem to have given the parking (paid) for the market shoppers and people have choosen to block the roads for parking.
I don't agree with -
So more & more Private vechiles will play on the roads & Public Transport will get back seat.
We need these parking facilities right now with reasonable parking fees, and banning of parking on roads, which would make revenue for BBMP as well as make people use public transport (who wants to avoid parking hassles and the fees). If government chooses to not to go for parking infrastructure, then I don't think it will help people using public transport, it will just enhance more indiscipline on roads, and more blockage on good-wide roads and then BBMP will come one day to again widen the roads as a temp or short term fix. You see the root of the problem here.
Deepak
what about Foot over bridges for Citizens ???
Sanjeev - 17 June, 2011 - 08:38
On entire length of NH-7 Bellary road to BIAL, NH-4 to Nelamangala, Hosur Road, Mysore Road,
We do not have any FOB for pedestrians to cross & worst is at Jalahalli Circle, Hebbal Flyover, Near BDA Office, Silk Board junction, Dairy Circle, KR Puram Bridge & KR Puram Station, Yesvantpur Station - Tumkur Road, Mysore Bank Circle.
That means BBMP or elected Representatives care where their deep pockets are taken care.
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