Staff Correspondent
Port Blair, July 21: The Port Blair city is becoming too congested for vehicles day by day. Everyday one can see hundreds of vehicles parked along the road side, jamming the already narrow and congested roads of Port Blair city. Not only this, branch roads like, Supply Line road also remains jam-packed because of illegal parking of four wheelers along the road side.
In fact the Supply Line road, which starts from Annapurna Cafeteria and ends in front Bharat General Stores, has become a parking zone for most of the traders and public.
The Administration has recently constructed a huge parking area infront of the SAI hostel, Netaji Stadium but sadly the parking area largely remains empty while city roads remain fully occupied with illegally parked four wheelers.
Although the top portion of the parking area, situated opposite New Light House Restaurant remains occupied with some vehicles, but in that parking area too, due to illegal parking most of the area in the back portion remain unoccupied.
This is high time for the traffic department to make it mandatory for people visiting Aberdeen Bazaar and adjoining areas to park their vehicles only in the new parking area, opposite SAI Hostel, Netaji Stadium. Parking of four wheelers must be banned inside Bazaar area so that movement of vehicles become easy inside city and cases of accident could be minimized.
“People have the mentality to park their vehicle just in front of the shop they visit. Same is the case with shop owners they want to park their vehicles in front of their shop. Nobody wants to walk even for 50 mtrs. This mentality has to be changed,” said a resident of Aberdeen Bazaar.
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