Mumbai: The number of new private cars, including SUVs, registered in Mumbai in 2021 saw a leap of 13% over Pre-Covid time (2019), the latest statistics from the State Transport Department on Monday showed.
Statistics also show that new car registration this year is 47% more than last year.
Data available with TOI revealed that while 56,689 cars / SUVs were registered this year in four RTOS cities between January 1 and 26, the number of new car registration in Mumbai in 2020 was 38,592 compared to 50,002 new private car registration in 2019.
Records of increases This year’s private car registration shows the trend of people who buy more cars, especially SUVs, during a pandemic because they provide protection to the entire family during the trip and are considered as “social blasphemy forms”, said source “.
Further statistics show that” vehicle registration Overall “, which included bicycles, buses and heavy goods vehicles, in Mumbai have also exceeded last year’s registration of 19%.
Overall, 1,95,109 registered vehicles in Mumbai this year compared to 1,64,483 in 2020 and 2.57,386 in 2019.
So, when it arrives at the whole vehicle, registration lags 24% compared to Kan with pre-covid with pre-covid times, officials said.
In the case of a private car, Tardeo RTO on the island of City has a maximum registration in 2021, with 15,195 new cars that hit the road.
This was followed by Borivli RTO on the western outskirts watching 14,659 new car registration.
Andheri RTO on the western suburb and Wadala RTO on the eastern suburbs saw 13,702 and 13,113 new cars were registered, each of these years.
Amit Bhatt, Executive Director of Integrated Urban Transport, WRI India, said, “The basic perception to get infection because joint transportation has made people turn to private vehicles.
There is no willingness of public transportation during locking is another factor that makes people go for personal.
Vehicles.
“He further said that people chose private transportation, consider it a safer way to travel.
“If you look globally, I don’t think there are empirical studies that have shown that public transportation is the operator for Covid.
In fact, if we maintain personal hygiene, use a mask and get fully vaccinated, it can protect us temporarily.
Traveling with joint transportation.
We need to eliminate fear and bring back people to public transportation, “he said.
AV Shenoy from Mumbai Mobility Forum said, “People plan a trip home with family in SUVs, their sedans, and hatchbacks to go to their home cities or to any tourist destination in or outside the country.
The reason is simple – avoid Get out with family on a local or long distance train or flight for fear of catching infection.
“Meanwhile, transportation statistics showed that 1.2 lakh bikes and registered scooters in 2021, with a two-wheeled population across 24 lakh in June this year.
The total population of vehicles in Mumbai now stands at 41.5 lakh.
Mumbai: New Car Regns on 2021 Jump 13% more than 2019
