Kozhikode :

The corporation is all set to welcome it’s first multi-level parking slot at Railway Station Link Road. The project is likely to be materialized in two years. The Calicut development authority has taken all the steps to commence the construction of the parking slot at the earliest. The CDA will take up the work on Built Operate Transfer (BoT) basis with the private firm with whom the civic body had earlier entered an agreement with after the dissolution in 2007.

Though the city corporation authorities laid the foundation stone for the proposed scheme on the land owned by the CDA in 2010, it failed to take off due to various technical reasons.

The CDA has already had talks and finalized discussions with the representatives of the firm ‘Yennavees’ to ink an agreement. The company will transfer the parking plaza to the CDA after a period of 33 years.

The Rs 9 crore project is bound to set up a seven storey multi-level parking plaza on the proposed 23 cents.

The project aims to set up parking slot to park 100 four wheelers and around 25 two wheelers in the initial phase. The project will be completed within two years from the day of the commencement and a portion of the building will also host the office of the CDA.

At present, vehicle owners are being forced to park on road sides and in parking slots set up by private players and malls in the city. Though the civic body had set up a parking space near Arayidathupalam, the space is insufficient to meet the increasing requirements of the public. Traffic snarls have become a routine affair in the city due to the limited parking space.

“We have held numerous rounds of talks with the company representatives and made slight changes in the agreements. They have agreed to increase the number of car parking slots from 63 to 100.

The CDA will begin the construction works once the plan is approved by the corporation post Onam” he said. “We wish to commission the parking plaza within the set time frame of two years as it is one of the priority projects listed by the CDA. The construction work will be commenced at the earliest most probably within a month,” he said.

A M Jayan, CDA secretary said that the parking slot will help put an end to the existing issues to an extend. “The public has been finding it difficult to park, and move around. This scheme will be a great relief to this city once it is realised” he said.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Kozhikode / TNN / September 04th, 2014