Chennai Corporation to implement city-wide smart parking management

While unregulated parking has shrunk carriage ways of galore streets successful Chennai and made pavements inaccessible, the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) plans to instrumentality astute parking absorption successful implicit 25 locations. For now, the program is to instrumentality it successful Anna Nagar and past successful T.Nagar.

As per the Comprehensive Mobility Plan – Executive Summary of the Chennai Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority (CUMTA), the people is to instrumentality regulated and priced parking crossed 36 high-demand areas and cardinal off-street locations successful the Chennai Metropolitan Area of 5.904 quadrate kilometre by 2048.

“Parking spaces are scarce successful Chennai. This program is to headdress amerciable parking, decongest roads, monetise parking, and yet propulsion radical to usage nationalist transport more,” a elder authoritative with the GCC said.

According to this plan, the on-street parking clusters wherever absorption projects are to travel up successful the GCC limits see Adyar, Velachery, Purasaiwalkam, Triplicane-Marina, Besant Nagar, West Mambalam, Saidapet, Meenambakkam and Tiruvottiyur.

Apart from this, clusters were noted successful Tambaram, Chromepet, Avadi, Tiruvallur, Kancheepuram, Thirumazhisai among others.

Anna Nagar parking

The survey for astute parking absorption successful Anna Nagar has already been done and the GCC has floated tenders for a five-year astute parking task nether a public-private partnership. Package I of the programme covers the roadworthy web from 1st Avenue to 6th Avenue and 1st Main Road to 17th Main Road. This includes 12.85 km of superior roads, with a full roadworthy width exceeding 24 metres, and 13.58 km of secondary roads (18-24 m wide).

A parking request survey recovered that during the busiest 30 minutes, the fig of vehicles utilizing superior and secondary roads is astir 11,456 cars. Under the caller plan, 2,100 organised parking spaces volition beryllium provided — 1,699 connected superior roads and 401 connected secondary. Tertiary roads of 14.87 km were excluded successful this signifier since they service chiefly residential parking demand.

Fine strategy

As per the smart-parking absorption plan, successful ‘No-Parking Areas’, a no-parking good of ₹500 is applicable and towing charges worthy ₹225 for two-wheelers, ₹450 for four-wheelers, and ₹800 for airy commercialized vehicles and dense commercialized vehicles (LCVs/HCVs) would beryllium levied. If vehicles are impounded, impounding charges use astatine ₹500 per time for two-wheelers and ₹1,000 per time for four-wheelers and LCVs/HCVs.

For violations successful designated parking areas, erstwhile vehicles transcend the permitted parking duration, clamping charges of ₹100 for two-wheelers, ₹300 for four-wheelers, and ₹500 for LCVs/HCVs would beryllium imposed. If the usurpation continues beyond six hours, determination volition beryllium towing charges astatine ₹225 for two-wheelers, ₹450 for four-wheelers, and ₹800 for LCVs/HCVs, followed by the aforesaid impounding charges. Vehicles remaining impounded beyond 30 days are liable for disposal done auction aft betterment of towing and impounding charges.