A steel facility that can at once hold 90 cars in a space which could originally hold nine cars. Electronic lifts pick cars and embed them within a structure that is believed to have cost $2.2m – or 52 million birr.
It is a continental first, a facility meant to ease vehicular parking and to keep with global trends in the area of vehicle safety. This is Africa’s first smart parking facility located in one of the continent’s fastest growing cities. Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.
A recent CGTN Africa report showed the Smart Megenagna Parking where a modern lifting systems safely parks cars in a huge steel storey building.
The simple steps in using the facilty involves payment via credit card system then one’s car is placed on bed and taken up for parking. The charge for each hour is less than 2 US cents.
The ground area around the facility can also take 120 cars at full capacity. An official of the Addis Ababa transport bureau allays fears of possible accidents as cars are lifted to be parked within the facility.
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