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PARKING

city’s growth culture would be Kumar’s view was that
areas the municipal corporations parking is a convenience to the
need to focus on, he opined. customer. Looking at it from
Raturi said public transport the user’s perspective, parking
and transit would play an should not be a hurdle for
important part in solving the customer or a challenge
this problem. In India, a car to the traffic department and
is still an aspirational buy. the municipal corporation.
With urbanization getting to ParkMont’s agenda is to create
70% in a few decades, the convenience so the customer
parking problem is not going can easily find parking space.
to be solved by just one factor While the government cannot
and agencies need to figure make MLCPs at all places and
out ways to use the existing with road-side parking a major
inventory of parking space. One challenge, relevant parking
way would be to have lesser space is difficult to find. One
vehicles on the roads. Since needs to leverage technology
ValetEZ is in the business of and an app-based solution that
parking solutions, our interest will guide the customer to the
lies in that whatever comes on nearest available parking slot,
the road can actually be parked, he said.
he said. Parking cannot be made The ethos of every city is
free and people would need to different, said Ranu Sharma.
pay a fee because the parking Ethos includes personality
business has a supply problem. and behaviour of people and
If the vehicle owner does not traffic, presence of migrant
want to pay, he would use a and floating population,
public transport system like the markets and specific
metro or bus. settlement designs, among

ith reports stating
that an estimated
population of
68% will be
moving to cities by
W 2050, municipal
corporations would need to My point is a bit different.
prepare a city development We should not charge
plan that would address the people for parking space; we
three buckets of rapid transport, should create more parking
pedestrian movement and spaces for them and if they
parking, said Damodaran. do not park there, then
Focusing on parking, he said the definitely enforcement will
current practices contribute to
urban chaos. With unplanned come into action.
growth in most cities, there is – Ranu Sharma (IPS)
limited space, cluttering on streets
and a lack of multiple parking
options. Optimum use of space
and making parking a part of the

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