10 major roads to become ‘no parking’ zones soon
The municipal corporation along with traffic police plans to declare over 10 arterial roads as ‘red zones’ where parking vehicles will not be allowed, to ease prominent traffic bottlenecks in the city. Although the authorities have still not concerned to come up with a substitute parking solution.
Kumar said, these areas are of core traffic and they should be declared as ‘no-parking’ zones. He told that he has already spoken to police commissioner and together they have decided to declare 10-15 odd city roads as ‘red zones’. Though we have already recognized a couple of roads such as the one connecting Sadar Bazaar to the bus terminal, Jail Road and Atul Kataria Chowk, we will zero in on more roads soon. Mostly roads will be from old city and few will be from Gurgaon, as per MCG commissioner Praveen Kumar. Kumar added this concept is popular in many other countries including England. The ‘red zones’ will have signboards painted in red and CCTVs to monitor any violation, following which our enforcement team will take necessary action.
However, he did not mention anything about the alternatives. “This is to discourage people from parking anywhere they like. They will have to park elsewhere and walk. The proposed multi-level parking lots will take at least another year to get ready.”
In Gurgaon people are forced to use their vehicles, whereas developed countries have excellent public transport system and adequate parking lots. The major task for the municipal corporation is first to provide efficient public transport and then come up with such ideas, as alleged by Jagat Singh, a Sector 15 resident.
Source: Times of India
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