The preliminary findings of Mumbai's first-ever parking survey are out and surprise, surprise, it turns out that most of the parking woes in the city are of the BMC's making. The civic authorities, who never bothered to formulate a parking policy for the city, are now starting to realise that their chaotic decision-making has resulted in each of the 24 wards facing different problems. Certain wards don't even have residential parking, forcing locals to park on the road.

In most instances, haphazard parking on the streets is just a symptom of chaotic planning by the BMC. Instead of coming up with a standard parking policy for Mumbai, the civic authorities allowed different arrangements for different wards. This is why there can be no one-size-fits-all solution to the city's parking woes, which vary from ward to ward.