The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars. Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district on the outskirts of Freiburg, near the French and Swiss …
The revenue officer of the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) seems to be not serious about collection of revenue. Due to his indifference the BMC is losing lakhs of rupees. The paid parking of vehicles is an important source of income to the BMC. In spite of this the BMC is …
The parking fee board placed by the Corporation on Shanmugham Road which comes under the PWD. KOCHI: Who should be collecting the parking fee on city roads? Kochi Corporation or the Public Works Department? Is it legal for the Corporation to collect a parking fee on PWD roads? The Corporation …
Mumbai: Though the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans a four-fold increase in parking charges, frequent users of parking lots need not worry as the civic body will soon introduce a monthly pass scheme for them with special discounts. With this, the BMC intends to do away with the touts who …
AHMEDABAD: Free parking could soon become a thing of past. Infact, it could be banned altogether in some parts of the city. For the first time, city's municipal administration has begun talking of a parking as well as an advertising policy. These moves are aimed at making public transport more …
This recent study by Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority is an effort to improve public understanding of the challenges that parking of vehicles present and the ways parking regulations can be leveraged to restrain traffic in Indian cities. Global experience bears out that parking management is one of the …
Global experience bears out that parking management is one of the most powerful instruments to reduce travel by personal vehicles that also influences commuting choices in favour of public transport. Parking management when combined with appropriately priced parking, limit on parking space and improved access through other modes of transport, …
A range of financial options to choose from City buses need to be affordable as well as comfortable and efficient. It is well known that bus operations would cost anywhere between Rs 20 per km and Rs 50 per km, depending on the cost of the bus and its operating …
The parking issues of Bangalore are intricately related to the city structure, infrastructure, traffic and management. The one way system proposed for speedy movement within the city and streamlining the traffic had facilitated clear carriageways with removal of parking from the roads. These have resulted in moving the
in the face of stiff opposition from consumer forums, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (nmc) has approved four of the 72 proposed pay-and-park zones. Vehicles can now be parked along the stretch between Khamla Chowk and Punjab National Bank in Pande Lay Out, between Gajanan High School and Mhalgi Nagar Square …
THE controversial tax on long-stay car parking in central Melbourne is here to stay, despite a review of the $820 levy beginning next year. Roads Minister Tim Pallas has signalled the tax, which aims to reduce road congestion, will remain and has the backing of Premier John Brumby. "The Government …
Motorists owe more than $50 million just to Melbourne's inner city councils and a large part of that is written off as doubtful debt. At last count, Victorian councils were owed a total $140 million in unpaid parking fines and associated fees, according to the Municipal Association of Victoria. Since …
Delhi municipality proposes low annual parking fee at a time when stiff parking fees are fast becoming an effective deterrent against car purchasing the world over, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi is contemplating reduced parking charges. The municipality has a proposal for a yearly levy which will tantamount to vehicle …
New Delhi:If you are in Delhi and own a car, then surely you must have faced a problem with parking. Especially, on a weekend the struggle to park your car in a crowded market area or multiplex increases ten times. According to a report there are a total of 18 …
Mumbai, June 30 Next on the agenda: only off-street parking In a move to discourage people from bringing private vehicles to the business district, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is all set to increase parking charges after 16 years by four times. Next on the agenda: parking on streets will be …
Parking is an essential component of the transportation system. Parking management can significantly reduce the number of parking spaces required in a particular situation, providing a variety of economic, social and environmental benefits. In this paper, an attempt has been made to maximize parking revenue by introducing parking in potential …
On April 21, a small stretch of road in a congested corner of south Delhi, one of the most polluted cities in the world, turned into an epicentre of chaos, confusion and downright indignation. The 5.6 km stretch was where the pilot phase of a public transport system that allows …
Public transport is the only answer to congestion and pollution The present crisis demands new solutions. And the solution is public transport, for space to accommodate cars is limited and cleaner and fuel-efficient technologies defeated by the number of vehicles. The Delhi government is planning to have 120 km of …
On the hike in parking charges proposed during an Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) meeting, MCD and DDA said they have received the minutes of the meeting and were working out the modalities. They added that it was too early to give out details of the new set-up. NDMC officials, …
If the Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) has its way, you will soon have to pay as much as you do at multi-level parking lots to keep your car along the street. With about 25 new multi-level parking lots being constructed in the Capital before the Commonwealth Games 2010 to …
