Hubballi’s first puzzle car parking will open today

Hubballi: Hubballi will get its first puzzle car parking system that will be thrown open for public use on Saturday at MG Park. It is the first of its kind puzzle parking system in the state to end parking problems, especially for cars in the city.
The puzzle car parking has been built at a cost of Rs 4.59 crore under the smart city project.
The parking facility is one of five other projects — a toy train, a fully developed Indira Gandhi glass house, MG Park, musical fountain and the quality control lab — developed under the smart city initiative and all these facilities will be opened on Saturday.
Shakeel Ahmed, the managing director of the Hubballi-Dharwad Smart City Limited (HDSCL), told TOI that all these works were supposed to be completed a year back but got delayed because of the pandemic.
A Pune-based company has built the fully automated puzzle parking facility. It is designed to provide parking slots to more cars by using less space. This facility has six levels and six cars can be parked in each level while 36 cars can be parked in the system. It is fully operated mechanically.
Ahmed said traffic used to get choked for lack of parking space for cars at Hosur Circle, MG Park, and IT Park. This parking system would streamline traffic at these places as people can park their cars here.
The puzzle car parking is built on 600 sqft as a pilot project. “In other parking slots, we need at least 2,300 sqft space to park 36 cars. The company which has built this facility will maintain it for five years as per the agreement. We have also fixed Rs 30 as parking fee per car,” he said.
Ahmed added: “We have taken up 64 projects under the Smart City initiative at a cost of Rs 930 crore, of which 45 projects are implemented and seven will be completed by the end of May.”