The Environmental Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority (EPCA) presentation on a new parking policy for Delhi before the Lieutenant-Governor on Thursday argued that the rate of parking for surface parking should be kept higher than multi-level parking facilities.

Other suggestions related to pricing made by Ms. Sunita Narain and Mr. Bhure Lal at the meeting on behalf of EPCA were to keep parking rates variable based on peak and non-peak hours, number of hours parked, and different categories of lands and colonies.

Aims to discourage parking on roads, use of private vehicles

The Capital looks all set to have a new parking policy meant to regulate parking on the roads while placing a restraint on use of public space by private vehicles, thus creating an incentive to use public transport. A series of suggestions made at a meeting called by Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna on Thursday to address the city’s parking woes include revision of parking fees to make parking on roads more expensive than parking at street-level, or in underground and multi-storey parking lots.

JAIPUR: To curb parking menace in the city, the civic bodies have geared up to develop parking lots in the city. Acting on the directions of the empowered committee that was constituted to develop Pink City as a world-class city, the civic bodies have identified areas to develop in the city.

On Tuesday, in a meeting chaired by Kuldeep Ranka the Jaipur development commissioner (JMC), directions were given to the officials to issue work orders for developing parking near Jal Mahal and Gandhi Nagar station areas.

New Delhi: After the transport department sought views on a hike in parking rates, most people seemed to agree that a “proper” parking policy was needed.

In order to tune into a sustainable transport in the City, the State government should take some bold steps like banning free parking, said Prof T G Sitharam, Chairman, Centre for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP), IISc.

Speaking at a seminar on “Green Economy: The way forward for sustainable public transport,” organised by the KSRTC, Sitharam said the first step needed was to ban free parking in the City. Also, congestion tax needs to be introduced in the Central Business District (CBD) areas, which would force commuters to use public transport, he said.

As the merchants in the city came out against the decision to restrict parking along main roads in the city, the Corporation authorities and the police are trying to put the blame back on commercial establishments for the present status of traffic obstructions being caused due to parking.

Ensuring that parking spaces available in multi-storey commercial establishments are properly utilised would solve half the problem, said K.J. Sohan, Town Planning Committee chairman of the Corporation. Following complaints that parking spaces are being used for its designated purposes, the City Police Commissioner M.R. Ajith Kumar, as instructed by then Transport Commissioner Sen Kumar, had initiated a special drive sometime back.

A draft policy for parking finalised by the Environment Protection and Control Authority (EPCA) headed by Bhure Lal has proposed 10 time-hike in the parking rates depending on the locations of the

The state-of-the-art facility can accommodate more than 1,400 cars

By asking you to ‘Let your car wait in style', Capital Point, the city's newest automated multi-level car park near Connaught Place, seems to be all about providing comfort for your car. Flanked by Hanuman Mandir and Gurdwara Bangla Sahib on Baba Kharak Singh Marg, the white exterior could be easily mistaken for a new shopping mall in town.

Chandigarh: With the Municipal Corporation unable to find takers, for four paid parking lots, over the past six months, the civic body has been suffering losses worth lakhs every month.

KOLKATA, 30 MAY: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has increased its earnings from car parking by Rs 82 lakh in 2011-12.