Chennai’s central railway station to have two-tier parking to ease commuter motion

Chennai: The tedious activity of discovering a parking spot in your automobile close to the Central Railway Station in Chennai has been a tedious activity for years now. The Poonamallee Excessive Highway close to the station, which is often bustling, will now not pose a problem because the two-level underground parking house can be prepared to be used by December 2021. 

The parking house developing reverse the Central Railway Station may also function the muse of the Central Plaza constructing which is 30-storeys tall. The development can be part of the CMRL’s Central Sq. mission price Rs 400 crore. 

A capability of 500 automobiles and 1,000 two-wheelers can be offered by the parking house, along with the parking house hooked up to Central metro that already has a capability for 100 automobiles and 200 two-wheelers. A metro rail official mentioned, “Our parking heaps are usually open for each metro rail passengers in addition to for others,” as quoted by the Instances of India. 

On high of the two-level parking, bus bays for outstation and native buses may also be part of the Central Plaza. Places of work, eating places, and purchasing areas can be positioned throughout the 30-storey constructing. The underground parking will serve guests to the Central Plaza, whereas the parking house can be made out there to the passengers wishing to catch a bus, board a metro, or suburban or outstation practice at Central. 

Commuters can be supplied with multimodal transportation to shift seamlessly between totally different modes of transportation, equivalent to outstation, native buses, suburban trains, MRTS providers, and outstation trains. The Thiru Vi Ka Park at Shenoy Nagar additionally has an identical building of an underground parking house ongoing; nonetheless, transport consultants are in disfavour of those since such open areas usually tend to encourage folks to make use of their very own transport as an alternative of public automobiles. 

Sivasubramniam Jayaraman, manager-transport system, Institute for Transportation and Growth Coverage (ITDP-India), mentioned that parking is magnetic, and folks are inclined to take their automobile while you provide them provisions for a similar. Throughout COVID, plenty of public transport customers have migrated to private transport mode. Growing parking areas will invite much more private automobiles, resulting in congestion. The federal government must also guarantee it offers good public transport together with house for last-mile connectivity to permit folks to determine their selection of transport.