CAR DEALERS , GARAGES , REPAIR SHOPS AND TAXI STANDS PARKING IN PUBLIC LAND

Residents of our colony  make it a point to leave home for work with ample time in hand. Not an unusual practice for a Delhite, but one has to be extra careful as it takes 20-30 minutes to just get out of our colony to the main road . The same is the case while returning home as one may be stuck on the road in the colony itself for about half an hour. With the pavement in front of the houses and the market areas blocked by cars, one has to maneuver the way out of a maze of irregularly parked vehicles.

Chittaranjan Park is not alone in its suffering. The congestion and resultant space constraint are difficult to miss on most of the adjoining colonies. Pavements and roads are choked with cars. But what many may not know is that most these cars do not belong to the residents. They belong to second-hand car dealers who encroach upon public land with impunity. Each dealer parks 10 to 15 cars on public land on an average. Also, car repair shops without proper garage space eat up a substantial part of the public road leading to narrower driving spaces. Taxi stands  are equally responsible for encroaching public land and parking spaces .

Another culprit, is the running of commercial activities from residential areas where the customers  park  their vehicles in front of others houses, gates,  and turning points. Leaving a car on turnabouts, pose a high-risk of accident as the moving cars cannot possibly see if any other vehicle is approaching or not.

These encroachers of public land need to be removed by the concerned authorities to resolve the congestion on the roads and residents should be able to drive comfortably in and out of the colony.