AHMEDABAD: You can now get some relief from the daily squabbles over parking space with your colleagues at your office complex. In a few days, you will be able to apply for a monthly to annual on-street parking permits at your local Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) zonal office.
Long duration and overnight parking on public roads, be it outside residential societies which are short of space or busy commercial complexes, will not be free any more. After implementing on commercial streets’, the same permit system will be extended to residential societies in a short time. Only 40 per cent of the road stretches will be designated for permit holders.
Parking permits will be demand-based, and shall be issued to individuals, while group permits for institutions, corporates, shops and establishments, clubs to hospitals and in some time to residential societies as well. “The permits will not be restricted to just on-street but will even extend to nearby multi-level parking lots as well. The latter will have discounted monthly rates in comparison to onstreet parking permits,” said a senior AMC official. The permit system is flexible such that even institutions or groups of individuals can approach the AMC to designate a road as a parking stretch. “The AMC will examine the road stretch to see whether there will be traffic hindrances,” adds the AMC estate official.
The parking rates will be calculated on the basis of daily 12 hour parking charges on any street and multiplied over the number of days of permit sought from the AMC. “We will be installing an electronic parking monitoring system to keep track of space available,” adds the official. The officials also added that discussions are on to halve the monthly permit charges while keeping the 12 hour charges as base rate.
Municipal commissioner Vijay Nehra said, “Our permit system will be unique in the country, and an individual can approach us for parking space.” On the comprehensive parking policy for the entire city Nehra said that the policy is ready and is being examined by the legal department in the wake of recent high court and Supreme Court orders over the issue.
Long duration and overnight parking on public roads, be it outside residential societies which are short of space or busy commercial complexes, will not be free any more. After implementing on commercial streets’, the same permit system will be extended to residential societies in a short time. Only 40 per cent of the road stretches will be designated for permit holders.
Parking permits will be demand-based, and shall be issued to individuals, while group permits for institutions, corporates, shops and establishments, clubs to hospitals and in some time to residential societies as well. “The permits will not be restricted to just on-street but will even extend to nearby multi-level parking lots as well. The latter will have discounted monthly rates in comparison to onstreet parking permits,” said a senior AMC official. The permit system is flexible such that even institutions or groups of individuals can approach the AMC to designate a road as a parking stretch. “The AMC will examine the road stretch to see whether there will be traffic hindrances,” adds the AMC estate official.
The parking rates will be calculated on the basis of daily 12 hour parking charges on any street and multiplied over the number of days of permit sought from the AMC. “We will be installing an electronic parking monitoring system to keep track of space available,” adds the official. The officials also added that discussions are on to halve the monthly permit charges while keeping the 12 hour charges as base rate.
Municipal commissioner Vijay Nehra said, “Our permit system will be unique in the country, and an individual can approach us for parking space.” On the comprehensive parking policy for the entire city Nehra said that the policy is ready and is being examined by the legal department in the wake of recent high court and Supreme Court orders over the issue.
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