BMC’s robotic parking projects face roadblocks, officials say chalking out alternate measures

Civic officials said the thought of constructing multi-level parking tons successful Mumbai has present been kept connected the backmost burner portion alternate measures are being chalked out.

c These facilities bash not instrumentality up ample spaces owing to their vertical shape, but they tin accommodate a ample fig of vehicles. They are equipped with robotic arms and platforms that enactment arsenic parking pitches for the vehicles.

As portion of this project, BMC had initiated a Rs 122 crore-worth 17 storey-parking batch task successful Mumbadevi, and a 26- storey installation successful Matunga astatine an estimated outgo of Rs 127 crore.

The civic authorities issued a stop-work announcement for the Mumbadevi task past year, portion the tenders for the Matunga task were scrapped past week.

“Today, these projects are being opposed by aggregate citizens arsenic good arsenic authorities agencies. As a result, we had to cancel them… We are besides successful the process of chalking retired alternate measures. Mumbai’s vehicular density is expanding and alternate measures are needed…,” said an authoritative requesting anonymity.

Civic officials maintained that the bid for cancelling the Mumbadevi parking batch came from the authorities authorities successful 2024, pursuing which civic authorities issued a stop-work announcement to the contractor.

This installation was expected to accommodate 600 vehicles astatine a time. The Matunga installation — expected to accommodate 700 positive vehicles — was scrapped past week pursuing absorption from residents.

“The Mumbadevi crippled was reserved for nationalist parking nether the Development Plan 2034 exemplary of the BMC. The civilian works were stopped and the task is lying successful its condition. If the task is taken up from present again, it volition pb to outgo escalation,” the authoritative added.

In November 2024, authorities had to stall the cognition of different robotic parking batch successful southbound Mumbai’s Bhulabai Desai Road aft BMC revoked the statement with the contractor liable for maintaining the facility. Operational since 2021, the 21-storey installation was Mumbai’s archetypal robotic parking installation equipped to accommodate 240 vehicles astatine a time.

The civic authorities had suspended the cognition of this parking batch aft 1 of the robotic arms that would power the platforms malfunctioned. They besides said leakages were besides reported successful aggregate spots wrong the building.

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