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The undue hold successful commissioning the multi-level car parking (MLCP) batch connected Kaliamman Kovil Street successful Tiruchi has drawn disapproval from residents, who constituent retired that the underutilised installation could person eased parking woes, particularly during the festive season.
With Deepavali circular the corner, the commercialized hub is bustling with shoppers, starring to terrible postulation congestion and parking difficulties connected engaged streets specified arsenic Nandhi Koil Street, NSB Road, Chinna Kadai Street, and adjacent the Main Guard Gate. Residents accidental the concern could person been alleviated had the installation been made operational connected time.
To easiness congestion successful the area, the civic assemblage successful 2020 demolished the rootlike marketplace functioning astatine the tract and constructed a two-storey analyzable with parking abstraction astatine a outgo of ₹6 crore nether the Smart Cities Mission. Around 20 shops person been acceptable up connected the crushed level portion the precocious floors tin accommodate astir 50 four-wheelers and 100 two-wheelers.
The parking facility, inaugurated successful December 2023, was expected to travel arsenic a alleviation to commuters. However, it remains unused, forcing motorists to proceed parking haphazardly on constrictive roads successful the commercialized stretch.
Residents constituent retired that the deficiency of organised parking continues to choke postulation flow, peculiarly during highest hours. “It has been astir 2 years since the operation was inaugurated, yet determination is nary motion of it being opened to the public. The hold defeats the precise intent of the project,” said V. Ramalingam, a commuter, urging the authorities to committee the installation astatine slightest during the festive season.
Revenue loss
Similarly, the parking installation connected West Boulevard Road, built astatine a outgo of ₹20 crore to accommodate astir 350 four-wheelers and 150 two-wheelers, remains underutilised, with little than fractional the capableness being used.
According to authoritative sources, the Corporation had been incurring gross nonaccomplishment successful maintaining the facility. Over the past 11 months, astir ₹26.57 lakh had been spent connected unit salaries, electricity, and receipt printing, portion the gross collected from parking fees has amounted to lone ₹4.39 lakh.
Corporation officials said tenders had been floated to place an bureau to run and support the facility. Plans are nether mode to present an integrated integer parking exemplary with Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras to streamline the operations.
