Dealing with traffic jams Car importers seek govt help to set up elevated parking lot
FE Report | Monday, 28 February 2011
FE Report
Importers of reconditioned transports have sought government cooperation in setting up elevated parking system in the city and introducing 'cars' weekly holiday' to find an immediate solution to the chronic problem of traffic jam. "Fifty per cent of traffic jam in the city can be resolved through introducing elevated parking system and weekly car-holiday," claimed president of Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers and Dealers Agency (BARVIDA) Abdul Mannan Khasru. At a media conference at National Press Club Sunday, he said the government's laudable initiatives like elevated expressway, flyovers and mass transport system are the long-term solutions to the traffic related problems. He urged the government to allot small pieces of land in the city's various locations, like those given to the CNG station owners earlier, to help them set up parking towers. He added these can reduce the current state of the people's sufferings significantly. The BARVIDA president said elevated parking tower and hydraulic parking system have been successful in improving the parking problems in the traffic jam-hit cities like Mexico City and Beijing. He said elevated parking system will reduce 30 per cent of the traffic jam while cars' weekly holiday by 20 per cent as the two innovative approaches ensure efficient traffic management in helping maximum use of small lands and resources. "We are ready to invest in the setting up of elevated parking system," the agency's president said adding that BARVIDA has found the initiatives cost effective, achievable and economically viable. Disclosing the BARVIDA study findings, secretary general Abdul Hamid Sharif disclosed that with an investment Tk 25 million, parking towers can accommodate 50 cars within 25-storied buildings the height of which is equivalent to a 15-storied building. "Only 600 square feet area can pick 50 vehicles from the streets to elevated places ensuring quick, safe and convenient parking by using a sophisticated and digital system with pin code and e-ticket," he said. BARVIDA study showed that one-third of the city's streets are occupied for car parking due to unplanned development of the city and construction of almost all commercial, housing and educational buildings without enough parking lots. It claimed that pay-back period of the investment for elevated parking building is roughly four years with an earning of Tk 200,000 a month. "Apart from Tk 30 earning on an average from each car, the investor can earn revenue from billboards giving the walls for advertisement," he added. The BARVIDA president also put forward the association's recommendations to resolve the city's traffic jam problems which include decentralisation of industries, mainly readymade garments and leather industries, non-motorised carrier solution, route diversification etc. BARVIDA leaders including ANM Faisal, Mohammad Farukh, Shah Mosharraf Hossain and Mohammad Habibur Rahman were also present at the press conference.
Importers of reconditioned transports have sought government cooperation in setting up elevated parking system in the city and introducing 'cars' weekly holiday' to find an immediate solution to the chronic problem of traffic jam. "Fifty per cent of traffic jam in the city can be resolved through introducing elevated parking system and weekly car-holiday," claimed president of Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers and Dealers Agency (BARVIDA) Abdul Mannan Khasru. At a media conference at National Press Club Sunday, he said the government's laudable initiatives like elevated expressway, flyovers and mass transport system are the long-term solutions to the traffic related problems. He urged the government to allot small pieces of land in the city's various locations, like those given to the CNG station owners earlier, to help them set up parking towers. He added these can reduce the current state of the people's sufferings significantly. The BARVIDA president said elevated parking tower and hydraulic parking system have been successful in improving the parking problems in the traffic jam-hit cities like Mexico City and Beijing. He said elevated parking system will reduce 30 per cent of the traffic jam while cars' weekly holiday by 20 per cent as the two innovative approaches ensure efficient traffic management in helping maximum use of small lands and resources. "We are ready to invest in the setting up of elevated parking system," the agency's president said adding that BARVIDA has found the initiatives cost effective, achievable and economically viable. Disclosing the BARVIDA study findings, secretary general Abdul Hamid Sharif disclosed that with an investment Tk 25 million, parking towers can accommodate 50 cars within 25-storied buildings the height of which is equivalent to a 15-storied building. "Only 600 square feet area can pick 50 vehicles from the streets to elevated places ensuring quick, safe and convenient parking by using a sophisticated and digital system with pin code and e-ticket," he said. BARVIDA study showed that one-third of the city's streets are occupied for car parking due to unplanned development of the city and construction of almost all commercial, housing and educational buildings without enough parking lots. It claimed that pay-back period of the investment for elevated parking building is roughly four years with an earning of Tk 200,000 a month. "Apart from Tk 30 earning on an average from each car, the investor can earn revenue from billboards giving the walls for advertisement," he added. The BARVIDA president also put forward the association's recommendations to resolve the city's traffic jam problems which include decentralisation of industries, mainly readymade garments and leather industries, non-motorised carrier solution, route diversification etc. BARVIDA leaders including ANM Faisal, Mohammad Farukh, Shah Mosharraf Hossain and Mohammad Habibur Rahman were also present at the press conference.