Ahmedabad: Mammoth Multi-Level Car Parking for 1,000 Cars – The biggest single facility for just a car in Gujarat – will come on the west bank bank.
This, even though people can park their vehicles for free along 10.5 km stretches close to this structure.
Irony plays throughout the city because RS 474 CRORE taxpayers will be pumped over the next two years to a multi-level parking lot when there can claim almost 32% to 35% occupancy.
What’s more, from 51 lakh motorized trips in the city of Ahmedabad, a car trip is 5%! Nearly 77% of Amdavadi motorized trips are on two wheels, 12% in public transportation, and the remaining 6% in joint and regular rickshaws, declare a study assigned by AMC itself.
This can be one reason why mechanical hydraulic car parking in Kankaria and Navrangpura has turned into white elephants with operational efficiency between 32% and 35% occupancy.
In May 2019, Kota Commissioner Vijay Nehra has admitted that the location of the Navrangpura multi-level facility is “wrong”.
“The AMC policy that operates paid parking facilities near the multi-crore multi-level parking complex has kidnapped the project.
CG Road, which is near the Multi-Level Navrangpura Park, offers parking along the road.
Meanwhile, AMC has paid a lot Parking is close to the six Kankaria Lakefront gate which is about the residence of multi-level car parking there, “said a senior official in the Ministry of Plantation.
The official added that before building Icebridges in the city, detailed research was carried out to check the need to build one.
“Similar surveys for parking requests and public parking habits have never been done before investing crores taxpayers,” the official added.
With low offers, even private operators refuse to participate as AMC continues to increase license fees.
“AMC has not bothered to revise the parking fee structure for more than one and a half decades but quickly in increasing license fees,” claiming the operator of the multi-level parking complex.