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IFP Editorial: Roadside parking should be banned not only in the commercial zones, but in residential areas also. In many parts of Imphal, one will find vehicles parked in the main roads and leikai roads.
IFP Editorial: Roadside parking should be banned not only in the commercial zones, but in residential areas also. In many parts of Imphal, one will find vehicles parked in the main roads and leikai roads.
IFP Editorial: Whatever measures are being taken up or training given, those in charge of traffic needs to shed the security mindset first and become imaginative. As Imphal is at the threshold of becoming a Smart City, one needs to be imaginative and innovative even in terms of managing traffic.
Despite the state government order on parking restriction, vehicle owners have once again started parking their vehicles along the main market stretch, where they do not have to pay parking fees, instead of using the allotted parking space.
IFP Editorial: The business lobby do not seem to understand that shops thrive when shoppers buy their goods and more importance should be given to shoppers. It is their bounden duty to provide more elbow space and easy accessibility for the general public who come shopping.
The state government on April 5 issued an order that residents and shop owners in both the stretches of Paona and Thangal bazaars should park their vehicles at the western side of Johnstone Higher Secondary School and on public parking space of Naga Nullah respectively. However, the government order remained effective for hardly two-three days and the vehicles were parked as usual.
One shopkeeper told the Imphal Free Press that as per an assurance made by authority concerned in presence of both superintendent of police, Imphal West and traffic police, the shopkeeper took the decision to reopen the shops along the Paona Bazaar stretch
IFP Editorial: Perhaps, the time has come for the government and municipal authorities to enact a law to prohibit vehicle parking on all roads and to make it mandatory for every vehicle owner to have own parking spaces for their vehicles in their Ingkhols or rent commercial garages.
Steps must be taken to ensure that all illegal structures/ obstacles are removed, irrespective of the individuals whether he is connected or not. A few cases of nepotism or corruption in the process can derail the whole effort. The need to maintain public space must be made to be felt and once a system is put in place and properly monitored, it will become a habit.
IFP Editorial: Instead of availing their own parking spaces, commercial establishments encroach upon the footpath also for display of their wares and the adjacent public road for parking of their staff vehicles and of the shoppers.
IFP Editorial: The time has come for the government and municipal authorities to enact a law to prohibit vehicle parking on all roads and to make it mandatory for every vehicle owner to have their own parking spaces for their vehicles.
IFP Editorial: Imphal city has a history of land grabbing by powerful persons in connivance with city officials and it is happening because of the delay in finalising a city master-plan with legislative backing.
Pedestrian-only streets prioritize people and are typically most appropriate in corridors with commercial activity on both edges of the street.
