Every city in the country is a mess when it comes to traffic. All roads are full of no-parking boards, and narrow single lines at the border of the road, showing that we shouldn't park there. But nobody cares, primarily because there is no option!
Writing challans and penalising drivers is one part, but the real solution should be to show them where to park, and then fine them if they don't follow.
I have a solution, @ncbn garu.
It is impossible to build parking decks across the city; we don't have the money. But here is a simpler solution - you have management students in every university. Give them a project. Get them to do a study of all busy areas in every city, come up with a demand analysis, and a suggested number of cars and two-wheelers for every area. Then please put your city planners to work, give them a deadline, and ask them to identify a parking place for that certain number of vehicles at every 2 kms across the city, and within 1 km of a market area. Then, give these lots to pvt contractors and let them charge a parking fee to maintain the area properly, add a toilet into the premises.
Clearly demarcate that area as parking, redraw lines, and then on every no-parking board, add an arrow showing parking place and the distance.
Parking Area - 500 mtrs ➡️
Lets do this scientifically. It's been done in all major cities of the world.
You don't show us where to park, and your departments give commercial licenses to any shop or establishment who applies, irrespective of the zone. Even if you lay 200 feet roads, it won't be enough! Lets please set an example.
Another part of this problem on our streets is of parked vehicles taking up what little space is available on commercial streets. People just park cars and autos and walk away for hours.
No more! People will relearn to walk. Or autos are anyway available for that short distance at minimum fare. You show a solution and then penalise, that's understandable.
I have a couple of illustrations - MVP Colony is among the Vizag's prime commercial areas. The entire main road, double road, venkojipalem, isukathota areas have zero parking, except for the tiny lot in the Rythu bazar premises, which is anyway unusable because of its terrible design entry-exit design flaw. And across all sectors, vehicles are parked two deep on both sides of the road.
The entire KGH to AVN College stretch is extremely busy, has zero assigned parking, and autos are parked on both sides throughout the day and night because those auto owners live in the bylanes and you sold them autos without asking them where they will be parked; thereby making the newly widened road effectively a single lane again.
Every city and town has such areas. Where will people park? You have the machinery to resolve this and greatly enhance the quality of residents' lives. Like all my suggestions, this one also doesn't need the Govt to spend big money.
If we are able to do this, next step is to make the areas walkable. Vehicle-free footpaths are walkable! It is a problem worth assigning resources to.
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