Corpn to start pay and park system on major roads from December 20

In a meeting held on Monday, the civic body decided to implement the parking management system on as many as 17 roads during the first phase on December 20.

The 17 roads include Marina Service Road, Besant Nagar 6th Avenue (Beach Road), Wallajah Road, Anna Nagar 2nd Avenue, Thyagaraya Road (Pedestrian plaza), Venkatanarayana Road, Kadar Nawaz Khan Road, Ambattur Industrial Estate Road and others.

Of the 17 roads, MarinaService Road will house as many as 1,345 vehicles andAnna Nagar 2nd Avenue will house 700 vehicles.

“These 17 roads have space to park 5,532 cars at once. Of the total space available, 20 per cent will be allocated for two-wheelers and five per cent space for differently-abled persons. As many as 460 CCTV camerashave been installed on the roads to monitor the parking,” an official said.

The civic body hadalready launched a mobile phone application ‘GCC Smart Parking’ on a pilot basis. The vehicle owners can use the application to pay charges and to identifyvacant parking spaces ofthe road.

During the planning phase, the civic body identified 12,047 parking slots on 378 bus route roads across the city and the project is being implemented by a private consortium. Once the system comes into effect, two-wheeler owners and car owners would have pay Rs 5 and Rs 20 per hour respectively. Parking would be allowed from 8 am to 11 pm.

After implementing the first phase on 17 roads, the civic body has plans to implement the system on 100 more roads during the second phase and 120 more during the third phase.