Mumbai: Multi-storeyed mechanized pay and park at Breach Candy to be operational by weekend

MUMBAI: A multi-storeyed mechanized pay and park at the up-market Bhulabhai Desai Road also known as Breach Candy which was lying non functional for the past several years will be opened up for the public starting this weekend. Located within a 20-storeyed tower in the area, the car park can accommodate approximately 240 vehicles.
The parking lot in Breach Candy had been lying unused for almost three years after it was handed over to the BMC by a private developer in 2015. Running short of parking space in the area, when the BMC decided to operate the parking lot but it found that the robotic mechanism that is used to operate the parking lot was not functioning.
Officials said that the robotic mechanism of the facility needed to be repaired also also the leakage issues had to be addressed before starting the facility.
"We took up work on it around 7-8 months ago. We plan to have a meeting with the locals in the area appealing to them to use the facility and avoid parking of vehicles on the road instead," said assistant municipal commissioner of D ward Prashant Gaikwad.
The car park has two large elevators for automatic transportation of vehicles, in addition four automatic turntables for turning the car. The automated operating capacity of this parking lot is enough to operate 60 vehicles per hour.
In May 2015, the parking lot ran into controversy when the civic standing committee members who visited it, found that the parking lot had no mention at any prominent place within it of it being a parking plot.
Besides it there were commercial activities like hookah parlors and restaurants operating in the adjacent building with several of its works pouring over to the parking plot the corporators had found.
The civic chief Ajoy Mehta back then had immediately instructed a board be placed at the parking lot prominently indicating that its a BMC run facility.