No respite from traffic snarls even as Admn allows parking in schools

A visitor in the Sector 22 market said, “We came around 2.30 pm when we were told to park our car in the government school, but nobody actually wanted to go so far away. We just managed to find parking space on the roadside.”

The worst were the roads passing through Sectors 15, 19, 22, 26 and 45. In Sector 18, the situation was better as the government school is on the main road, close to the market and, therefore, convenient to shoppers.

In Sector 17, all parking lots were full, and visitors had to use the parking space in front of the Municipal Corporation. In Sector 26, which attracted crowds of cracker buyers, people had parked cars on the main road.

Although the traffic police challaned vehicles, and also towed away wrongly parked cars, it had little effect as there were too many vehicles parked on the roads all over the city.

Similarly, the municipal corporation challaned those who had put up stalls in parking spaces, but the fine was only Rs 250 per pipe erected to support the stall which the shopkeepers did not mind paying.