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The fig of vehicles entering Semmozhi Poonga successful Coimbatore during weekends and holidays has prompted Coimbatore Corporation to instrumentality steps to place further parking space.
Vehicle records amusement that 622 cars, 2,187 two-wheelers and 3 buses entered the parkland connected Saturday, December 20. The numbers roseate connected Sunday, December 21, erstwhile 960 cars, 4,624 two-wheelers and 7 buses were recorded.
Official information besides amusement that 24,166 radical visited the parkland connected Sunday, aft which vehicles were parked connected 1 lane of the Gandhipuram flyover, starring to postulation congestion. Between December 11 and December 20, a full of 1,01,391 radical visited the park.
The parkland has parking capableness for 453 cars and 1,048 two-wheelers, with parking charges of ₹10 per hr for cars, ₹5 for two-wheelers and ₹30 for buses. “People walk agelong hours wrong the park, with galore staying longer successful the evening. Programmes held astatine the amphitheatre, which has seating for 1,500 people, besides widen the duration of visits, keeping parking slots occupied for astir of the day,” said P. Pranav, a visitor.
The constabulary person placed a informing committee on the park’s compound connected Dr. Nanjappa Road, stating that parking is prohibited and violations volition pull a good of ₹1,000.
A elder authoritative from the Corporation said that further parking abstraction is being planned to grip the play crowd. “We are readying to see the country adjacent the aged entranceway of the Central Prison arsenic good arsenic different sections wrong the situation grounds, and a elaborate program volition beryllium finalised soon,” the authoritative said.
