Pelathope residents push back against parking

Three years ago, Pelathope Residents Association successful Mylapore slammed the brakes connected unauthorised parking successful their constrictive street. They enactment up ‘No Parking’ boards and got resident-volunteers to person a hawk’s oculus connected the street, making definite the exhortation of those boards were heeded.

Fifteen CCTV cameras were installed on the street.

The Association has present taken up a run to forestall vehicles from being parked astatine the entranceway of their street. Off RK Mutt Road, the thoroughfare is located other a well-known textile shop, and galore radical buying successful the country find it convenient to permission their vehicles connected the road.

On December 27, the Association invited Mylapore MLA Dha. Velu connected a locomotion of their street, highlighting assorted initiatives they person taken and concerns they privation addressed, and salient among them is the interest of unauthorised parking.

“Metro enactment is happening astatine the extremity of our street, truthful galore radical parkland their vehicles connected RK Mutt Road. From Indian Bank to our street, galore cars and tempos are parked successful specified a mode that we residents cannot participate oregon permission the thoroughfare with our four-wheelers,” says N. Venkatesh, caput of Pelathope Residents Association.

Residents person spoken to establishments connected this conception of RK Mutt Road seeking that they bash not nonstop shoppers to parkland their vehicles astir the entranceway to Pelathope but that has had small effect.

They requested the MLA to marque a 150-meter agelong from Indian Bank to the MRTS presumption a ‘No Parking’ zone. “Or, astatine slightest person regular towing of vehicles, which volition deter radical from parking connected the road,” says Venkatesh.

RWH wells

Every year, the Association has been taking up immoderate betterment enactment oregon the other. To harness rainwater from the street, 3 recharge wells person been sunk. During the conscionable with the MLA, residents wanted an unfastened junction container to beryllium fenced. “The MLA assured america that it could beryllium portion of Greater Chennai Corporation’s view-cutter project,” says the secretary.

The contented of mediocre lighting adjacent Thirumayilai Railway Station was besides taken up.