On record
Designed to hold roughly 580 four-wheelers and 500 two-wheelers, the facility was inaugurated by the Chief Minister while still only partly built: at opening it could handle just 34 cars and 50 two-wheelers. It then sat largely unused for years: BBMP ran at least seven failed tenders to find a private operator, halved the reserve price to attract bidders, floated electric buggies to ferry users to shops as a "last-ditch attempt," and eventually handed it to a firm on terms under which BBMP expects to take about 50 years to recover its investment.
The official record states: "Officials and residents attributed the rushed, incomplete 2018 inauguration to the upcoming state Assembly election; the subsequent low usage was blamed on poor location/access and low public awareness."
“Inaugurated before the election with room for 34 cars in a building designed for 580.”— Blunderlust Editorial Desk
Sources
- https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/bengaluru/cm-inaugurates-half-finished-projects-1922712
- https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/bengaluru/7-failed-tenders-later-bbmp-to-self-manage-multi-level-parking-lot-1192065
Visitor reviews Satire
“Inaugurated before the election with room for thirty-four cars in a building designed for five hundred and eighty.”
“Seven failed tenders, a halved reserve price and electric buggies to tempt people in. I parked there alone.”
“BBMP expects to recover its investment in about fifty years, which is optimistic for a car park nobody can find.”
