Now, a parking lot under Military Memorial Park

murali772 - 25-DEC-2010

Green activists are up in arms against BBMP's plan to construct a basement parking bay inside Indira Gandhi Musical Fountain park. Speaking to TOI, Vinay Srinivasa of Hasiru Usiru, an NGO, said that the project was ridiculous.

Underground Parking - whats the big deal?

srinidhi - 6-DEC-2010

 It has been in news since some time that BBMP is planning underground parking lots under playgrounds and other public amenities like parks etc..

more on this in this link..

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/72003/are-playgrounds-last-resort-construction.html

Parking policy in Asian cities

idontspam - 1-DEC-2010

Sharing a report from Parking policy report in Aisan cities by Paul Barter who blogs on reinventingparking.org

Docs related to controlling traffic growth

vinay_sreenivasa - 3-OCT-2010

have attached some docs related to parking (HU's comments to DULT on their parking policy) and the HU mobility manifesto (in kannada and english), though these docs might be useful for people working on this project.

not sure if this was the best way to attach these docs, so in case its not ok, dont feel upset :-)

NO-PARKING zone violations

Arun - 29-SEP-2010

Too many violations of the No-parking zone can be seen all over the City, and 95 times out of 100, it will be private cars that violate this rule.  Jayanagar, probably tops this list.  Few observations -

Vehicle to People ratio in Bangalore

idontspam - 29-SEP-2010

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Parking/Congestion charging proposals for CBD

Naveen - 26-SEP-2010

This is a project to develop and propose a workable approach for re-introducing parking regulations in the city. A further long-term objective is to detail solutions for introducing congestion charge or cordon pricing in the central area of the city (CBD).

The project aims to prepare proposals that will provide benefits like:

Parking enforcement & restraining traffic growth

Naveen - 26-SEP-2010

Further to the meeting with Mr Praveen Sood, AdCP-Traffic, a project will be necessary to identify a workable approach to re-introduce parking regulations in the city.
A further long-term objective for the project would be to investigate possibilities for enforcement of congestion or cordon pricing, particularly in the CBDs.

Thoughts on Parking Issue

cmbhat - 23-SEP-2010

 A small note prior to reading: I am new to Praja and have not read threads related to this subject. Also this posting is done with the help of someone as I am not good in computers and internet. I came to know about meeting with Praveen Sood. Hence my inputs are here for the meeting. All the best !

Meeting with Praveen Sood on Parking issues, moved to Sep 25

idontspam - 15-SEP-2010

This is a meeting with Additional Commissioner of Police Mr Praveen Sood to discuss Parking & Congestion charging for Bangalore, the challenges in enforcement with current systems and automated systems. RSVP with a comment if you wish to come.