Indore: Parking has always been a huge problem along the road from Palasia police station trisection to Saket square. The road becomes narrow as people who visit shops park the vehicles haphazardly on roads leading to traffic jams.
Many school buses, during afternoon hours, pass through this road leading to high traffic in this area. Two wheeler riders ride on the wrong side up to trisection, which adds to traffic congestion and increases chances of accidents. The loading vehicles and autorickshaw drivers who visit shops also park vehicles haphazardly.
The road houses residential and commercial complexes including Navneet Tower, Classic Crown and has restaurants, shops selling electronics, furniture, stationery, and other goods. The vehicles parked on footpaths also obstruct vehicular traffic.
The road connects to Anand Bazaar, a commercial area, also receives heavy vehicular traffic. Praveen Jain a trader said, “I visit Navneet Tower building for work atleast one a week. The building parking is not sufficient compared to number of people visiting the offices. The civic authorities should plan a public parking facility in the area to solve this problem.”
Madan Kasturi a businessman said many people do not hesitate to park their vehicles in front of shops or on the footpaths. “The problem caused to the commuters can only be solved if traffic police will take regular action against violators,” he told Free Press. “Congestion leads to accidents. The traffic police officials should impose fine and put wheel lock on vehicles of violators,” daily commuter Piyush Morya said.
Vikas Jain a businessman said two wheelers ply on wrong side to avoid U-turn. “They obstruct traffic, cause inconvenience to pedestrians and hinders the ongoing traffic. There is no traffic police to check violators,” he said. ASP (traffic) Pradeep Singh Chouhan said traffic police will install wheel lock in the vehicles that are wrongly parked. “We will soon start the drive against illegally parked vehicles in this area,” he told Free Press.