Parking, long neglected problem

 

 

THE number of private vehicles from out-of-town drawn to the city presently is evidently on the rise proportionate to the increase of crowd-drawing establishments mushrooming here and there, like mega malls, student dorms and boarding houses. These, in addition to the three  growing universities sitting together as virtual neighbors,  have tended to  spawn in return more problems of car-parking, especially considering that development authorities have so far not done anything beyond lip service to expand the range of the city proper.

The parking space problem here, however, has probably not reached the stage yet where scramble for available parking space would result in untoward incidents, like cursing and gun-shooting which are rampant in bigger cities, like Metro-Manila.

That this has not yet happened here, while serving as cause to remain smug and complacent, should be cue for POSO authorities and LTO to do something before the situation becomes worse.

The LTO, which is supposed to take the basic steps, should resort to stricter implementation of its resolution to rid the streets of kolorum trikes and passenger jeepneys. Less kolorum carriers would mean more parking spaces.

Traffic law enforcers too, like POSO, should determine the proper places in the city to designate as legal parking space or as loading and unloading zones, including parking areas for trikes awaiting fare.
There’s the diagonal style of parking for private motorists that POSO officers have not grown wise to yet and it would be well for them, for the sake of our many car-riding shoppers here, to determine the avenues in the city wide enough to allow diagonal parking.

Diagonal parking, if properly implemented, would allow accommodation to more vehicles and make traffic less dense. At least it’s far more accommodating that parallel parking, which is tolerated or legalized here.
 

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