The district administration has gone into a proactive mode to address parking miseries faced by tourists, mainly at hotspots like the palace and zoo.
With the ever-increasing tourist footfall, the parking space for vehicles has shrunk.
As the situation had reached a stage which demanded pressing attention from the authorities for preventing disorder, Deputy Commissioner C. Shikha recently paid a visit to the spots accompanied by Police Commissioner B. Dayananda, MCC Commissioner C.G. Betsurmath, and zoo’s Executive Director B.P. Ravi and others.
Even as the proposal to construct a multi-level parking facility in front of the zoo was still alive despite certain “technical” problems, the issue before the authorities is how to accommodate tourist vehicles if the construction of multi-level parking facility is taken up at the parking lot near the zoo.
The situation, at present, is very chaotic. Parking of vehicles on roads in surrounding localities has caused inconvenience to the residents. Vehicles, including buses from neighbouring States, are parked on the main road outside the zoo, obstructing traffic movement. The police, too, are facing problems in managing traffic near the zoo with the influx of travellers to the city touching an all-time high. Ms. Shikha told The Hindu that the multi-level parking project was still in a discussion stage, but there are also plans to arrange “temporary parking” somewhere closer to both the places — palace and zoo — and arrange for a shuttle service for tourists from the parking facility to tourist sites.
A meeting with the authorities of Mysore City Corporation, city police and stakeholders from tourism industry will be convened soon to take a final call, she said. Zoo Director B.P. Ravi said they had prepared a presentation on the parking issue with thematic representations and so on. “With the Chief Minister broaching up the proposal of multi-level parking recently, we will make a presentation to him during his next visit,” he said.
