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Written By Vasanth - 14 July, 2011
Civic amenities Bangalore Complaint Living parking policy
This weekend, I had parked my car in a residential area to goto a restaurant. It was not parked in a driveway nor in front of a gate nor in the slot where most of the people alter their foothpaths to park their car. By the time I returned, windshield was filled up with clay mud. No one was there near the car, but, someone from the home might have done that.
Two weeks back, I visited our family friend in Ulsoor who has rented a house. I parked my car in front of their house by passing through narrow space between cars parked on either side of the road. Immediately, the owner came and said our car is coming here, don't park. I changed the location and parked near a park's gate which also is a dead end. Immediately another person came and said our car comes here don't park. Changed the location again, another guy came and said our car is going to come here, so don't park. It went on like that and I had to literally change 8 locations. Got so much frustated and had to argue with some people too that it is public place and not owned by you. Especially the elderly who stay back at the home always cause the problem. We cannot argue much with them since they are elderly people 
We need the rule that the parking place in front of houses is not owned by the tenant to be published in news papers and TV channels.
Also, cars are parked on either sides of the street clogging the road. BTP should pass a rule that on only one side of the road cars should be parked. Otherside parked cars should be towed away. The strong local residential communities will oppose it, BTP should stand strong.
Parking a car is a major headache after passing through the pains of driving in Bangalore. Kudos to who drive daily and able to find a parking 
COMMENTS
psaram42 - 14 July, 2011 - 07:10
A local issue requires a local solution. Each corporater of the area is supposed to have a residents’ committee, which should address such local issues. I have a garage for my Maruti 800 [60x40 sites] where as the block in my front row [30x20 sites] has none?
Some brain storming:-
- Multi story local parking lots in each bloc.
- Road side parked cars liable to be towed away
- Daily Tax for Cars with no garage
- All Road Transport Offices data on net
- etc
This is perhaps a valid issue for a praja discussion.
R V Raja Rao - 14 July, 2011 - 09:31
Some brain storming:-
- Multi story local parking lots in each bloc.
Very good, if implemented especially in commercial cum residential areas like, Gandhinagar, Gandhibazar, Sampangiramanagar, Ulsoor, Jayanagar, Malleswaram, V V Puram etc,
- Road side parked cars liable to be towed away.
Idea of towing away the road side parked cars without creating a regulated parking facility seems to be little harsh on the car owners.
- Daily Tax for Cars with no garage.
Collection of Tax/Permit fee for parking car is again a good move but collection on daily basis may not work feasible and economical.
- All Road Transport Offices data on net.
In Cities like Bangalore the data available with RTO need not be absolute. We may have to modify the data based on other values and inputs.
psaram42 - 26 July, 2011 - 15:45
Following is an example Picture of a brand new car being permanently parked on a 40 ft wide cross road by the side of a park in HAL III stage [ward58]. The owner of this I20 white car is the daughter of our front neighbour [30x20] site who stays at Fraser town! She comes here on a scooter and uses the car and goes back on the scooter to frasertown.
Ideally, the ward committee should issue a notice to the owner requesting it to be removed. Better still paste it on the parked car itself.
I had done it once for another car which used to be parked for days together in front of my house. The owner is parking it elsewhere, in the same road since then. In one more case of a junk car, I had given a written complaint to the police station. They in turn got it removed immediately.
@ Mr. Raja Rao
Brain storming is just putting down whatever comes to your mind. If enough people storm their brains we can have enough material to choose the best possible solution. If each ward does this exercise may be we can have a workable solution, for our city as a whole.
R V Raja Rao - 14 July, 2011 - 13:02
If you go by my comment, the best possible solution for your example would be to creat parking bays around the park/street and tender some of them for allotment, to the owners of the area against Yearly Charges and issue parking permits. The rest of the bays may be reserved for public parking.
- Building owners are satisfied. They are provided with reserved parking.
- Visitors/guests who visit the locality also get some parking space.
Revenue generated through this process may be used for developmental activity of the area.
R V Raja Rao - 14 July, 2011 - 06:47
We can address the parking problem by:
- Creating parking bays wherever absolutely necessary and put forward some of them for allotment, first to the owners of the area against certain fee and the rest reserve it for public parking by installing pay and display parking machines.
- The penalty for violation of rules and regulation must be viewed very seriously, should attract heavy penalty and cause inconvenience to the violators.
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