bengaluru women driving fourwheelers can now enjoy the privilege of parking in slots reserved exclusively for them on brigade roadon sunday mayor sampath raj and shantinagar mla n a haris inaugurated the reserved section of the automated payandpark facility the bbmp aims to reserve 20 of the slots for women and in the first phase 10 of the total 85 parking slots have been set aside for themi come to brigade road area often with my kids and its very hard to find parking slot sometimes we have to park 12km away and then walk back to the car once we are done with this this last mile of travel has been eliminated ensuring our safety said vidya r l who was one of the first to make use of the facilityas of now 15 of the slots have been reserved on the mg road side of the stretch in a phased manner and based on the response we will reserve slots on the other end as well apart from a security guard cameras have been installed here to ensure safety this is the first road in the country to have reserved parking slots for women suhail yusuff secretary of the brigade shops and establishments association saidthe bbmp plans to implement the reservation system for the disabled too in many areas women have to park cars in deserted stretches and then walk from there which can be unsafe this new system will help make the process safer we will also implement this 20 reservation for women and a percentage for the disabled in bbmps parking facilities in other parts of the city said the mayorhowever soon after the inauguration which took place at noon only one or two slots had been filled up many women drivers frequent this area since today is a sunday there are not as many people as usual from monday these slots will be full said a security guard working nearby