Do you plan to buy a new car in the Maharashtra? Better to show your parking papers first. In the middle of Mumbai spiral traffic and parking chaos,
The Minister of Transport, Pratap Sarnaik, said that registration of new vehicles will now require proof of a parking space.
The directive follows a meeting at the state level on Monday aimed at attacking the worsening of the region of the metropolitan region of Mumbai (MMR). “We will not register new vehicles if the buyer has no certificate of allocating parking space of the civic organization concerned,” said Sarnaik in an India Today report, signaling a major change in policy designed to discourage the growth of random vehicles in urban areas already blocked.
To complete this decision, the Department of Urban Development writes authorizations to build parking spaces under recreational land – a bypass solution to create space in a city where each square foot is disputed.
The new proposals are aligned with global urban standards, where the possession of cars depends on the demonstration of available parking.
Mumbai, with more than 47 Lakh registered vehicles, including 14 private Lakh cars, has one of the highest vehicle densities per kilometer in India. However, the infrastructure barely followed the pace. Many older housing colonies lack designated parking, while new developments often underlift it due to indulgent regulations. The result: a city stifled with cars spreading on the roads, the trails and each thumb of open space.
The public parking structures on several floors, although built, remain underused, is too far from the shopping centers or poorly maintained. Meanwhile, Lax regulations allowed a “parking mafia” to flourish, invoice arbitrary costs and often order public lots for private or commercial purposes.
Sarnaik also alluded to futuristic fixes. The state increases the plans for a pod taxi system – high and unemployed cars on dedicated tracks – in areas like Mira -Bhayandar and Bandra -Kurla (BKC), with potential metropolitan links. “I visited Vadodara, who should launch the first pod-car system that suspended commercially ready for the world,” he said, suggesting that the Maharashtra could follow the plunge.
