Shortage of paid parking lots

Srinagar city continues to face shortage of paid parking lots. Whatever paid parking space is available is insufficient to meet the demand. The number of multi-layer parking lots is only a few. The tiny parking slots created on the roadsides under Srinagar Smart Project too are proving insufficient.

There is a need to create more parking space so that the people do not face problems in safely parking their vehicles. The demand for such spaces is increasing day by day because of the increase in the number of vehicles on the roads. Earlier, the motorists would park their vehicles on roads without bothering about its the effects, including disruption in smooth flow of the traffic.

Now the traffic police is dealing strictly with wrong parking of vehicles and imposing fine on the vehicle owners for doing so. At times the officials lift the wrongly parked vehicles. Such steps have helped in smooth flow of the vehicular traffic.

Most motorists now avoid parking their vehicles wrongly on roads. In absence of paid parking space people face lot of problems. Since parking slots get occupied in early morning hours, those coming later have to move from one place to another in search of some space in parking lots. That way their time and fuel gets wasted. Sometimes they fail to get any space in parking lots and they park the vehicles on roads.

This creates problems for others and at times leads to traffic jamming also. All government and private hospitals too must have adequate parking space within the complex or in the vicinity. The patients and attendants visiting hospitals should not face any problem.

Even the shopping complexes must have sufficient parking space. It has been noticed that a number of shopping complexes do not have adequate parking slots. The concerned departments must identify vacant government land, wherever available, for creating more parking lots.