Illegal parking

According to media reports illegal parking of vehicles occupy as much as 30 percent of the city streets and naturally is seriously hampering normal traffic flow in addition to causing nuisance to pedestrians. Experts said lack of monitoring as well as inadequate parking facilities and the weakness in traffic management are responsible for the growing illegal parking. In absence of car parking facilities, vehicles are being randomly parked on the streets adjacent to shopping malls, schools, financial institutions, business establishments and government and private offices. Both the criminals and sections of the police are minting money through extortion from these illegally parked vehicles. On certain occasions, like the Police Week for instance, we see traffic cops being extra active and resort to towing illegally parked vehicles. However, after a few days the status quo returns.
Illegal parking, in whichever form, poses a threat to the safety of other motorists and pedestrians. Indeed, we have received much feedback from members of the public on the dangers caused by illegal parking.
In all busy areas of the capital car parking is a major hassle due to the administrators’ lack of vision and people’s indiscipline. In a city where owning a car is now a necessity rather than being a luxury, there are few authorised multi-stories car parks (which, too, are not being properly utilised), when their numbers should have been in the scores.
The traffic police have failed miserably to remove the illegal parking, which seems to be a major cause of traffic jams. A significant number of illegal parking spaces has sprung up in various areas of the city not only causing hurdle in the smooth flow of traffic blocking the pavements of main thoroughfares but are also a liability on the revenue source of the government.
Urban planners say that there is no discipline in car parking in Dhaka. Most drivers and vehicles’ owners seemed to be oblivious of the parking rules and regulations, and they just parked their vehicles on roads according to their own sweet will. Most shopping malls lack enough parking lot and shoppers very often leave their cars parked either in front of them or on both sides of the road, being least concerned about a free and smooth movement of other vehicles. This goes on under the very nose of traffic police.
The situation has become unbearable and prompt steps are must to put a stop to illegal parking.

Illegal parking

According to media reports illegal parking of vehicles occupy as much as 30 percent of the city streets and naturally is seriously hampering normal traffic flow in addition to causing nuisance to pedestrians. Experts said lack of monitoring as well as inadequate parking facilities and the weakness in traffic management are responsible for the growing illegal parking. In absence of car parking facilities, vehicles are being randomly parked on the streets adjacent to shopping malls, schools, financial institutions, business establishments and government and private offices. Both the criminals and sections of the police are minting money through extortion from these illegally parked vehicles. On certain occasions, like the Police Week for instance, we see traffic cops being extra active and resort to towing illegally parked vehicles. However, after a few days the status quo returns. Illegal parking, in whichever form, poses a threat to the safety of other motorists and pedestrians. Indeed, we have received much feedback from members of the public on the dangers caused by illegal parking. In all busy areas of the capital car parking is a major hassle due to the administrators lack of vision and peoples indiscipline. In a city where owning a car is now a necessity rather than being a luxury, there are few authorised multi-stories car parks (which, too, are not being properly utilised), when their numbers should have been in the scores. The traffic police have failed miserably to remove the illegal parking, which seems to be a major cause of traffic jams. A significant number of illegal parking spaces has sprung up in various areas of the city not only causing hurdle in the smooth flow of traffic blocking the pavements of main thoroughfares but are also a liability on the revenue source of the government. Urban planners say that there is no discipline in car parking in Dhaka. Most drivers and vehicles owners seemed to be oblivious of the parking rules and regulations, and they just parked their vehicles on roads according to their own sweet will. Most shopping malls lack enough parking lot and shoppers very often leave their cars parked either in front of them or on both sides of the road, being least concerned about a free and smooth movement of other vehicles. This goes on under the very nose of traffic police. The situation has become unbearable and prompt steps are must to put a stop to illegal parking.