Having tried various ways to decongest the city's roads and junctions, the BMC has now appointed a town planner to do the job in Dadar. The G North ward wants to decongest the major hub and push citizens towards Public Parking Lots. It also plans to include local shopkeepers and businessmen in the process.

Through the urban planner's study, it has figured that there are 22 traffic generation points in the ward and about 38 small lanes and arterial roads are within a 500-metre radius of the PPLs. However, the two PPLs in the ward have a total capacity of 1,100 vehicles, the lanes see around 4,000 vehicles parked across them every day.

The study undertaken by ward officials, a civic official explained, revealed that most of the parking in these lanes is done by locals residing in the old buildings here. Data also points to vehicles parked here for a few minutes. These include people who visit restaurants, taxis waiting for passengers, gas cylinder delivery tempos, and garbage vehicles among others. These will certainly not be considered for the PPLs. While a comprehensive solution is being discussed, the BMC plans to develop Taxi Bays to cater to the pick-up and drop-off vehicles. This will be done by identifying 26 setback areas (area to be handed over to BMC after the redevelopment of any building if space is reserved for road widening).