Kingcraig parking to take another year

MUSSOORIE: Three-and-a-half years and several hiccups later, the much-awaited multi-level

parking

facility at Kingcraig in

Mussoorie

is finally taking shape. However, authorities have said that it would take another year for the project to be complete.

Being constructed at a cost of Rs 32 crore, the facility with a capacity to park 400 vehicles has suffered several setbacks since 2015. There was first a rumour of the rocks not being stable, then the

construction company

being blacklisted, the labourers had also stopped work several times owing to “delay in payments”.

Pankaj Kumar Aggarwal, assistant engineer of Public Works Department, said, “The facility will be ready by July next year. The project is very challenging as it is being constructed on two bends. It is also a very busy stretch and hence we are constructing one pillar at a time.”

Parking has remained an old issue in the hill town. The number of cars is growing with each passing day and the parking spaces are falling woefully short.

City resident Sandeep Sahney said, “The hill town has parking capacity for only 1,500 cars and the total vehicles here have touched 4,500.

Every weekend

another 2,000 tourist cars add to the burden. Construction of the multi-level parking is on since 2015 and the authorities are saying that it will take another year to be complete. We are at the receiving end of things because of their incompetence.”