Where should citizens park vehicles?

Where should citizens park vehicles?
The Times of India

• The expansive Shivajinagar bus terminus has a parking complex on the first and second floors. For two years, it’s been a common practice for people to park their cars here and trudge all the way to their offices at Commercial Street, MG Road and thereabouts.

• The Public Utility Building basement at M G Road is filled with techies’ cars who park their vehicles early in the morning and then take the office cabs/buses to ITPL, Sarjapur Road, Electronic City. They return late at night and drive back. The Public Utility Building Association reckons that this deprives parking space to at least 50 vehicles.

For the last five years, Bangalore has been bursting to assert its global status. In the process traffic and parking have taken its toll on the commuters. And in the last one year, all hell broke loose. Finding parking space at Central Business District (CBD) is difficult.In 2004 and 2005, there were two breathers.

Garuda Mall; a joint venture between the BMP and a private player, promised parking space to 900 cars for commuters around Magrath Road. That was not to be, as the mall had a multiplex thrown in for good measure. The Kempe Gowda commercial complex was again thrown open to the public at Majestic. For reasons the BMP is not clear about, the complex has not taken in as many vehicles as it can accommodate.

That still does not answer the fundamental question — where should citizens park?