The traffic police claimed to have found a solution to the parking woes on Jawaharlal Nehru Street and the adjoining busy commercial districts by holding discussions with legislators, traders and Chamber de Commerce representatives. The new traffic arrangements will come into force from Monday.
It may be recalled that shopkeepers, traders and small time vendors had vehemently opposed the decision of not allowing two-wheeler parking on the Nehru Street as it affected their businesses badly. The parking ban was imposed after setting up of a parking lot in the Old Jail Complex.
Before amending the traffic rules, suggestions of the market traders associations, led by the Chamber de Commerce, were considered. Also, Congress MLA K Lakshminarayanan and AINRC MLA G Nehru had held discussions with with the traders, represented by the Chamder de Commerce president Shembakarajan along with secretaries Gunasekaran, Sivasanakaran and Sundar and advocate A S Munusami among others.
Superintendent of Police (Traffic) N T Sivadasan, SP (North) S Ramaraj and other inspectors were present in the meeting held at the Traffic Police office on Saturday night.
At the meeting, SP Sivadasan, announced the new arrangements for the parking of bicycles, two-wheelers and four wheelers on Jawaharlal Nehru Street.
The new arrangement was restricted only to the southern side of the street where separate areas were being marked for parking for all types of vehicles. No parking for any vehicle was allowed on the northern side, which had been kept as a vehicle free zone to enable free movement of traffic.
The two-wheelers belonging to the shop owners, employees/workers at the super markets and the traders of Nehru Street should be parked in the slots provided at the Old Jail Complex.
The space marked for two-wheelers, bicycles and four wheelers were intended only for customers visiting the Jawaharlal Nehru Street alone. If the parking places marked for two wheelers were full, the vehicles should be parked inside the Old Jail Complex only. Physically challenged persons could park their vehicles in any available space on the southern side of Nehru Street as they were also being allowed in the Goubert Avenue (Beach Road).
Further, parallel parking would not be allowed along the parking space on Nehru Street. Violators would be prosecuted under the Motor Vehicles Act.
However, parking issues on Bharathi Street, Canteen Street and Mission Street did not come up in the meeting. Sivadasan said the arrangements had been made to decongest Nehru Street and to ensure free flow of traffic on the street.
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