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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
Enforcing car parking in residential roads only on one side
Vasanth - 1 October, 2012 - 10:59
Lots of road space is occupied by cars parked on either sides of the road in residential areas and it is very difficult for a passing by car / truck. BTP / BBMP should atleast start enforcing parking of the cars in residential areas only one side of the road although it might not be possible to completely eliminate.
only night parking for residents
santosharjun - 1 October, 2012 - 15:20
Residents should be allowed to park their vehicles infront of their respective homes only from 8PM to 8AM ( or any designated time). Other than this time the parking is open for public and in some places can be charged as well.
idontspam - 1 October, 2012 - 17:58
Residents have to pay to park on street where allowed, wether in front of their houses or across town doesnt matter. Should be allowed to get a monthly permit if you park often.
Anithasunil - 2 October, 2012 - 04:38
I would still be fine with the idea of building multilevel parkings in residential areas, but at a cost to the owner!
I pay 2L for a parking in a multistoried apartment. In case there is a layout, where people have violated the building norms, and havnt left enough space for car parking, let them buy a slot in the multilevel parking slot govt builds at a similar cost! I would be absolutely against the idea of giving it for free..
Now, question is, who should start this process! Say, BDA builds a multilevel parking, if there are sufficient takers in an area, willing to pay for a parking slot... In this case, as long as you allow street parking, there wont be demand for the multilevel parking.. The street side parking will also have to be as expensive as the EMIs for the new parking slots!
srinidhi - 1 October, 2012 - 13:02
Demarking parking zones within localities which extends to 2-3 roads(cross/mains) and issuing parking permits at a cost should be the way to control this..cars not having permit stickers will need to get towed away..
For the thought of having parking on one side only..this can happen when parking side is changed every other day, as it happens in some parts of bangalore (hanumanthnagar 50 ft rd)..this also needs to be controlled with permits..
This also needs to take care of how big the road is..two sides parking need to be allowed on 50ft + wide roads only..
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