India, March 22 -- The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) plan to introduce a pay-n-park scheme on the cycle track opposite the Shanmukhananda Hall along Flank Road has hit a bureaucratic hurdle over revenue sharing. The BMC's hydraulic engineering (HE) department, which owns the land, has requested detailed projections on the expected earnings from this section of the cycle track in their letter to F North ward on March 4.

The initiative for pay-n-park on Flank Road had come after requests from resident groups in Sion, who were increasingly frustrated by the huge traffic congestion outside the popular Shanmukhananda Hall in Sion East, which accommodates around 2,700 visitors. The assistant engineer (maintenance) for the F North ...