Islamabad to Get New Electronic Parking System
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) is working on a time-based electronic parking system at seven locations in Islamabad, with the duration of vehicles’ stay to be recorded digitally and parking charges monitored through an electronic dashboard.
CDA officials told the Senate Standing Committee on Interior that work on the project was underway. Under the proposed system, the time a vehicle remains in a designated parking area will be tracked on a dashboard, allowing the authority to monitor both parking duration and applicable charges electronically.
Senator Naseema Ehsan said a traffic management system similar to one introduced in Karachi had also been started in Islamabad. She highlighted the difficulties faced by residents and visitors in finding parking spaces, noting that people from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and other provinces also live in or regularly visit the capital.
Director General Enforcement Anum Fatima told the committee that the Blue Area parking plaza had been completed and would help address parking problems in the area. She said parking fees were being collected according to the CDA’s approved layout plan, while cashless payments and QR codes were being used for transactions at all parking facilities.
Senator Abid Sher Ali questioned the CDA’s parking arrangements, pointing out that parking fees were still being collected on roads despite the authority’s statement that the Blue Area parking plaza had been completed.
He described the two positions as contradictory and asked the CDA Chairman about parking arrangements in newly constructed plazas.
Sher Ali also proposed that new plazas should not be granted a No Objection Certificate unless they provide adequate underground parking facilities.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
That sounds like a really smart way to manage parking in the city. Hopefully it will reduce some of the congestion I’ve seen around the downtown areas.