Another effort by District Magistrate (DM) Savin Bansal towards improving the city’s system has come to fruition. For the first time, state-of-the-art automated car parking facility has become available in Doon. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami will soon inaugurate the facility of 246 automated car parking prepared at three places. According to District Magistrate Savin Bansal, parking is also a major challenge in the traffic system in the city. The Chief Minister had issued instructions for proper efforts in this direction. In the sequence of which, for the first time, a blueprint of automated parking was prepared and locations were marked to overcome the tough challenge of traffic management in the city. Taking steps in this direction in the month of October, the implementing agency Rural Construction Department invited tenders and took concrete steps. In the first phase, the construction of three automated car parking has now been completed. The first automated parking has been constructed on the road passing between Lansdowne Chowk and Gandhi Park and Parade Ground, the second parking has been constructed near the multipurpose sports building in front of Tibetan Market at Lansdowne Chowk and the third parking has been prepared at Coronation Hospital.
Details of parking projects
Near Multipurpose Sports Building
Cost, Rs 4.96 crore
Vehicle capacity, 132
Between Gandhi Park and Parade Ground
Cost, Rs 3.91 crore
Vehicle capacity, 96
At Coronation Hospital
Cost, Rs 80.63 lakh
Vehicle capacity, 18
This is automated mechanical parking
According to Executive Engineer of Rural Construction Department Vineet, automated car parking system is a mechanical system. Which is designed to park a large number of cars in the minimum available space. Like a multi-storey garage, an automated parking system parks cars vertically at several levels. This helps to maximize parking space and reduce land use. The EPS operates on a mechanical system to transport cars and hence eliminates the need for drivers. The automated parking system is similar to robotic valet parking. The driver has to drive the car to the entry area of the APS. The car has to be unloaded, the driver and all passengers have to get out of the car. The driver makes payment at an automated terminal nearby and gets a ticket. As soon as all the passengers exit the entry area, the car is lifted by the mechanical system and taken to a pre-determined parking space in the system. After which the operator fits the car into the smallest parking space available.
