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PARKING

Enforcement strategies
are an important tool
for behaviour change.
The focus of the policy
is to not penalise the
violator but discourage
the violations. By adding
penalties and punitive
actions to the violations,
people’s parking habits
can be modified for the
better.

Pricing strategies help manage
demand for parking, reduce
congestion, and discourage
personal vehicle user. Only those
willing to pay end up coming
in cars and bikes, while the rest
may turn to other sustainable Comprehensive on-street and off-street parking fee strategy at Pedestrian Plaza at T.Nagar
options. The rates have been set this was a critical reason why For example, in areas with high
based on factors such as, how parking policies failed to bring coverage of public transport, the
majority of the people commute the results as expected, as the overall number of permissible
while visiting the area, availability implementation and enforcement parking lots is reduced. This
of public transport, land use, were split among multiple follows the concept of parking
and considerations for traffic agencies. maximums, to ensure people use
management. the public transport that is easily
Policy allows for Legal &
Chennai to take a centralised Policy Amendments to other available and are not dependent
approach to parking key legislations on personal vehicles.
management with a Parking For on-street parking spaces: Contextualising the existing legal
Management Unit framework is critical for effective
As per the policy, Traffic Police,
The policy establishes the Urban Local Body, and Road enforcement, regulatory clarity,
need for a single authority to Owning Agency can pass and integrating parking seamlessly
manage parking holistically. The an official order to delegate into urban planning frameworks.
Parking Management Unit will parking responsibility and As per the current legal
be this single authority and will enforcement to CUMTA’s framework, the parking
function under CUMTA. It will be PMU. This will ensure seamless management roles are
responsible for planning, pricing, management across agencies. fragmented with Traffic Police
enforcement, and implementation For off-street parking spaces: and Urban Local Bodies on
across agencies.
The policy recommends planning, pricing, implementation
A single authority streamlines amendments to TNCDBR and enforcement. The new
decision-making, prevents (Development Control policy allows CUMTA to take up
fragmented implementation across Regulations of TN). This will help the responsibility from different
agencies, and ensures consistency redefine how much off-street agencies and be the sole
in pricing, enforcement, and parking must be made provided management unit- through
monitoring. In many other cities, in any property development. the PMU.

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