Mangaluru: Cars were regularly being parked in a street, measuring less than 50ft, adjoining Kasturba Medical college Hospital at Attavar, for the past few years. The traffic police taking a stubborn step, have started levying fine on cars that were found violating parking rules.
According to the traffic police squad on wheels, it had followed up their action, almost every day, forcing the hospital administration last week, to make use of their big playground with ample space for parking the students’, staff and the officials vehicles. The hospital authorities had to knock down a portion of the playground to make way for the vehicles to get to the parking space.
A dental college and the playground, behind the KMC hospital at Attavar, also has its entrance in the street. A number of cars come to drop children to a school situated at the dead end of the same street. A resident said that vehicles were often involved in regular traffic jam in that street.
Because of the cars parked in a haphazard manner, the residents in the street had to experience great difficulty of wading through such traffic jam on their four wheelers, once in the morning and again in the evening. Many a times, vehicle owners passing through this street, had heated exchanges, when they were unable to reach the school or their offices in time due to traffic jams .
Like a lesson well learnt, a flex banner appears at many places on compound walls, in the entire street, which reads “No parking – KMC parking at KMC Attavar grounds”.
An activist, who is a resident of Bendoor said that, at the signal near SCS hospital, a number of cars are being regularly parked on the main road, in the evening to pick up school children 15 minutes before the school gets over. Such parking violations create a bottle neck in the free flowing of traffic. It has remain unchecked till now. The activist wished that a traffic squad is pressed into service to ensure free flow of traffic. The activist also said that traffic squads should ensure such enforcement of traffic rules all over the city.
