Pune has 25 lakh registered vehicles but parking for only 1,800 vehicles

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The ratio is 1:1388, which basically translates to that there is just one public parking space for the 1,388 registered vehicles in Pune (two-wheelers and four-wheelers). And when we say just one parking space, this figure is of the public parking space and not the one inside your residential complex. 

Most of us spend couple of minutes searching for a “safe” parking spot. For some “safe” means parking their car inside a mall and for some it means, parking their vehicles right below the no parking sign, because then your shopping destination is right in front of it and you want to keep an eye on your car. Some of us forget that this action is bound to inconvenience others. There are more ways were we manage (revise this sentence)

to park our vehicles but why do we do it? Because there are not enough safe public parking spaces provided by the government. 

This is what the deputy commissioner of traffic Police, Pune has to say about the parking fiasco,"While ideally, we need to discourage people from using their cars, building more and better quality multilevel car parks can help in clearing up road space. Many people avoid using multilevel car parks, choosing to park their cars on the road. Perhaps there is poor lighting, poor cleanliness or even poor access to the facility (pedestrian as well as vehicular). Sometimes people are just worried for the security of their parked vehicles in the remote corner of these multilevel parking structures. 

Pune has enough land to plan for new public multi-level parking spaces but what do you do in a city like Mumbai, where a piece of land is the most expensive thing you can buy in the city? Few years ago, someone bought one parking spot for Rs 1 crore. For the same price, you can buy a Porsche Cayenne. Which one would you go for, first?

Source: ET