21% of Metro stations in Bengaluru don’t have parking bays

Bengaluru: Numbers tell a shocking tale: Nearly 21% of Namma Metro stations in Bengaluru do not have any parking facility at all. For every 10,000 who travel by Metro, there are just 150 parking slots — 127 for two-wheelers and the rest for cars — making it nearly impossible for motorists to find parking space every single day. Instead of circling around the station for a chimera called parking zone, many motorists prefer to continue on bikes or in cars, instead of taking a ride on Metro stations, to reach their offices.

The reason for this traffic malaise is not too far to seek. Those tracking Metro developments maintain that providing parking infrastructure had not been a priority from the time the project was conceptualised for Bengaluru.