GURUGRAM: To ease visitors motion, the Gurugram Metropolitan Growth Authority (GMDA) has put in almost 2,000 no-parking indicators throughout the town over the previous couple of weeks.
Based on GMDA, each residents and different authorities had raised issues concerning disruption in visitors stream and frequent jams as a result of unlawful parking of automobiles on roads.
“Aside from putting in these indicators, we may also be sure that automobiles discovered violating norms are towed away by visitors police in affiliation with GMDA,” mentioned a senior GMDA official.
Highway security consultants who TOI spoke with mentioned that enforcement is important in guaranteeing the effectiveness of any signage. “For any initiative, engineering adjustments and enforcement must go hand in hand. Putting in indicators is an efficient transfer, however the GMDA must implement the rule, else there can be no impression,” mentioned city-based highway security knowledgeable Sarika Panda Bhatt.
Residents, in the meantime, identified that as a substitute of simply addressing the parking difficulty in isolation, the GMDA wants to take a look at the matter at a broader degree.
“Persons are parking on the perimeters of roads as a result of there isn't a facility to park automobiles anyplace else. Should you put up indicators and take away the automobiles from one place, they may discover one other comparable location to park. Somewhat than putting in indicators, GMDA ought to have a look at growing areas the place folks can legally park, whether or not these are floor parking or multi-level amenities,” mentioned Nirmal Bakshi, a resident of DLF 5.
GMDA has these days been engaged on a plan to develop sensor-based parking administration and steerage system within the metropolis. At current, the authority is exploring the opportunity of such a facility in Sector 44. Moreover, the Municipal Company of Gurugram (MCG) is engaged on developing three multi-level parking within the metropolis, two in Sadar Bazar and one in Kaman Sarai. Town presently has just one multi-level parking in Sector 29.