26/1/2018
PUNE: The Pune
Municipal Corporation (PMC) has framed the parking policy for whole city and
will forward it to the General Body for approval. While preparing the parking
policy, PMC has kept the target to make it more costly to encourage a shift
from the use of personal modes of travel, especially the 2-wheeler and cars, to
public transport.
While presenting the draft budget on January 22, Pune
municipal commissioner Kunal Kumar had said that the parking policy plan is
almost in its last stage and will be presented before the general body soon. The
PMC accepted the principle that abundant parking supply means rise of more
private vehicles in the city and rising vehicle population should not lead to
parking space crunch in future.
PMC parking policy document states that parking is an
essential component of transport system. As per the document, a vehicle runs
for one hour on an average and is parked for 23 hours in a day. It is also
important to consider that a typical vehicle usually needs three different
parking spaces - one at the owner’s residence, second at owner’s office or
business place and third at recreational or entertainment facility.
The rising numbers of vehicles in Pune city are likely to lead
to 4.5 lakh parking spaces every year and it is not manageable.The rising
number of vehicles would soon make parking a public nuisance issue. By
considering this, the PMC parking policy aims to change the mindset of
provision of parking. “Creation of parking space and land required for that is
extremely valuable and no resident has the right to its free use,” states the
report.
PMC studied the parking charges in most of the metro cities in
the country. The administration has also checked the charges at different
locations. It mainly compared with Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata and
Chennai and found that the parking charges are less in Pune. Hence, the new
policy could see a rise in rates for two-wheeler and four-wheeler parking on
city roads.
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