CSML to curb haphazard parking on smart roads

Agency to explore availability of open spaces to be spared for use as pay and park facilities

Cochin Smart Mission Limited (CSML) is planning to rope in educational institutions and others with open spaces in the vicinity of smart roads which could be spared for use as pay and park facilities, after regular working hours, official sources said.

While CSML can ready such spaces for parking by laying tiles and installing lights, such institutions will benefit from parking fee collected from motorists. It will help prevent haphazard and often obstructive parking on smart roads that the agency built after renovating carriageways, footpaths, drains, and medians.

Display boards mentioning availability of vacant parking slots at such facilities will be put up to help motorists. Such a system is any day cheaper than multi-tier parking lots which entail huge expense, take years to build, and leave substantial carbon footprint, the sources added.