Parking is like a huge problem for city dwellers today. If flats are constructed with the ground floor as parking area, there are specific areas of parking when commercial areas are considered. Many people dread using their vehicles and sort to public transportation which offers almost everything as a private vehicle.

Most of us would have wondered why vehicles are parked just in front of the shops. The cars used as a platform for display of teddy bears for sale in Pangal Park area and the most common scene, Vehicles parked just in front of the 'No parking' board. To imagine broad roads without vehicles been parked on both sides would no more ne a mere dream.

Jamming and uncertainty caused by chaotic parking is a predominant area of concern for the CMDA. But not anymore, the authorities have devised a solution for the parking problems taking lessons from their foreign contemporaries. Haphazard parking on streets may soon be a thing of the past. With the parking spots allotted reaching the brim of capacity, a multi - level parking has been resorted to be a savior.

Wondering what multi level parking is? This is something which the Spencer plaza has been housing for few years now. You go through the parking slot, follow tracks and pass through tunnel like structures and you park you car at third floor. The same system will be followed; vehicle towers will be built with concrete parking surfaces and steel frames. According to a news report it will take three minutes for a car to roll into the vehicle tower and go into the customer area on its return. The time fixed to move all vehicles out of the tower in case of an emergency will be two hours.

The parking lots near Broadway bus stand, Panagal Park and Government Estate would be the first few places where the multi level parking would be built... This might look a like a boon for parking problems, but what one must do exactly to curb the parking hassles is promoting the usage of public transportation and developing few fully pedestrian zones.

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