KL wants you to use public transport and may ban parking bays in new buildings

By THE STAR | 17 May 2017


KUALA LUMPUR: Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) may ban parking bays for new buildings in the central business district, says mayor Datuk Seri Amin Nordin Abd Aziz.

“It is still in the planning stage. It is being considered for future development," he said.

“After the mass rapid transit (MRT) line is completed, we would not need parking bays anymore,” he said at Menara DBKL.

Amin Nordin was commenting on reports that DBKL was looking at ways to disallow parking bays in an effort to reduce traffic congestion and encourage people to use public transportation.

Asked whether the move would affect shopping malls and other commercial buildings, he repeated that the idea was still being studied.

Previously, Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor had said that not having parking bays in buildings had become a trend in developed cities around the world. He commented that Kuala Lumpur would follow suit.

The idea has been brought up by DBKL several times over the past few years.

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