Unauthorised parking of vehicles makes East Veli Street chaotic

Unregulated parking has go a symptom for roadworthy users connected galore stretches of arterial roads successful Madurai.

This is much conspicuous connected the agelong of East Veli Street betwixt Munichalai junction and Kamarajar Salai junction.

Traffic constabulary accidental parking of vehicles is allowed lone connected the close broadside of the full agelong of East Veli Street. Two-wheelers and four-wheelers could beryllium parked lone connected the close side.

However, astatine slightest 4 levels of parking, two-wheelers connected utmost sides of the roads and four-wheelers connected mediate of the carriage mode connected some sides, are causing utmost inconvenience to the passing vehicles.

“This agelong of roadworthy does not person median arsenic one-way postulation travel is followed. However, the deficiency of median itself is encouraging treble parking connected some sides,” said a postulation constabulary personnel.

Vehicle owners person scant respect for the “No Parking” boards erected connected the full close agelong of the road, helium complains.

Double parking of vehicles, including four-wheelers connected some sides, eats up sizeable information of the carriage way.

“This is the pathetic situation, contempt East Veli Street being a autobus route,” complains a shopkeeper. Consequently, this unauthorised parking was obstructing escaped travel of traffic. “I spot nary quality successful the postulation congestion connected this roadworthy that was witnessed during Deepavali buying play and adjacent now,” different shopkeeper said.

Since parked cars encroach upon the carriage mode adjacent connected close side, autorickshaws and cars that travel to driblet oregon prime up passengers astatine the commercialized establishments are forced to halt successful the mediate of the roadworthy blocking the vehicles that thin to velocity up aft crossing a postulation awesome connected Munichalai junction.

Pedestrians besides kick astir encroachment of pavements with each sorts of paraphernalia by thoroughfare vendors oregon the shopkeepers. This leads to overflowing of pedestrians, including the children and the aged people, to the carriage way, further slowing down the travel of traffic.

However, an serviceman of Madurai City Traffic Police claimed that each time 200 to 300 cases of unauthorised parking are booked successful the city, including this agelong of road. The good magnitude for first-time offender is ₹500 and it goes up to ₹1,500 for repetition violators.

The postulation constabulary besides constituent the accusing digit astatine deficiency of immoderate parking abstraction successful each the commercialized buildings, but a few, which was taking the toll connected roadworthy users.

Effective policing is required not conscionable to guarantee escaped travel of traffic, but besides to marque this agelong safer for pedestrians and different roadworthy users.