Regulation of parking in T. Nagar etc difficult, parking management system has glitches
Posted on: 27/Jan/2020 10:12:33 AM
Recently, parking management system was launched in Chennai city and it caught the attention of many. The news that has come out now is there are few glitches present in the parking management system and these have resulted in many civic issues in many places in Chennai.
It is important to mention that the photo of the number plate of the car parked in the parking slot does not match the data generated in the system. The number plates of cars parked in the area has been captured by the cameras but the issue is they system has not been able to decode them.
In places like T. Nagar and Besant Nagar, officials have been finding it difficult to regulate the parking. It must be taken into account that the command and control centre at Ripon buildings has not been able to use the facility to regulate parking in places like T, Nagar. The presence of glitches has made the officials not able to take any action against the violators.
The officials feel that they would be punishing innocent people if the system is used in penalising parking violators. The sources have mentioned that the system is now used manually and even after inauguration the automated parking management system was not automated. To help the motorists book their parking slots by using their mobile app and to ease congestion, parking management system was developed.
To cover as many as 12500 parking slots in places like T. Nagar, Besant Nagar, Marina Beach, Purasawalkam and Anna Nagar, parking management system was originally proposed is known. On Friday, Chennai city commissioner, Mr. G. Prakash, hinted that Chennai city would get 1.5 lakhs parking slots to ease the traffic congestion. It is known that Chennai is the first Indian city to implement area wide parking management system unlike a stretch based model adopted conventionally.
