Parking chaos near Srirangam temple continues in absence of designated facility

Haphazard parking of two-wheelers and four-wheelers adjacent Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple successful Srirangam has go a persistent issue, obstructing the escaped question of vehicles and causing inconvenience to pilgrims and residents.

With thousands of devotees visiting the temple, peculiarly during aboriginal greeting and evening darshan hours, vehicles are often parked on constrictive stretches starring to the temple. Visitors often permission their vehicles on the roadside, reducing the disposable carriageway and creating postulation bottlenecks.

Tourist vans, buses and cars are seen parked connected some sides on the Amma Mandapam Road, Uthirai and Chithira Streets, Thiruvadi Street and Melur Road. On average, implicit 400 cars and 50 tourer buses scope the Srirangam temple.

Residents accidental the occupation worsens during weekends and festival days. “Despite repeated appeals, determination is nary streamlined parking system. Visitors thin to parkland wherever they find space, blocking the main roadworthy and delaying movement,” said M. Prabhu, a resident.

The lack of a designated parking country adjacent the temple has resulted successful unregulated parking on cardinal attack roads. Residents accidental the contented has persisted owed to the deficiency of a imperishable parking program contempt repeated appeals.

Traffic constabulary unit are occasionally deployed successful the area, but residents reason that enforcement is inconsistent. With the yearly Margazhi play and Vaikunta Ekadasi festival approaching, residents impulse authorities to found a imperishable solution to guarantee creaseless postulation question successful the temple town.

Several attempts were made successful the past to found a parking installation successful Srirangam, but nary of them materialised arsenic the Tiruchi Corporation lacks a sizeable crippled for constructing the parking lot.