Parking your vehicle in Delhi, even near your home, is soon going to be an expensive proposition for the owners. According to new rules that are set to be notified, roadside parking in residential colonies will be allowed in bordered areas and a fee charged.

Anil Baijal on Wednesday reviewed the Delhi Maintenance and Management of Parking Rules, 2017, prepared by the transport department. The meeting was attended by transport minister Kailash Gahlot and senior officials of his department, civic agencies and traffic police.

Rates for parking on demarcated public roads in residential areas will be fixed by the respective civic agency in consultation with RWAs. If your building has stilt parking but you still park on the street, the charges will be twice the normal rate. According to the new rules, which give teeth to the draft parking policy prepared by the department, parking rates will be fixed by a `base parking fee committee' headed by the transport commissioner. The rules are set to be notified very soon and rules propose that on-street parking for the first hour be priced at least twice as much as off-street parking. The parking fee will increase every hour to discourage long duration of on-street parking and will be thrice that of off-street parking. No surface parking will ordinarily be allowed within 500 meters of a multi-level stack parking.

The rules have also come up with dynamic pricing mechanisms such as peak and off-peak fees and exponential increase per hour of use would be used to moderate parking demand.

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