Why is parking spots a nightmare for flat owners in Mumbai? – Vraj Tiara vrajtiara.com

With the decision to buy flats in Mumbai, one cannot ignore the commute within the city. You know you are in Mumbai when Google Maps would give you an estimated travel time longer to reach by car than walking the distance!

Today’s roads are so severely congested that even desperate measures might only improve the condition. A solution proposed by the city authorities is a very steep parking fee, high enough to potentially dissuade people from taking their cars and bikes to work and encourage using public transport. This would only mean that one needs to park their vehicles at their home.

In many residential localities of the city, the glut of cars has further added problems. Since most homes in central and south Mumbai have old residential complexes that don’t have a garage, the vehicles parked outside in the leafy by-lanes eat into the road space. Multiple cars in the same house have only worsened the scene. One often comes across slow-moving car drivers endlessly searching for a parking lot, motorcyclists carving out a wedge to squeeze their bikes in, haphazardly parked school vans adding the woes.