Parking outside schools, colleges annoys commuters

Avneet Kaur

Jalandhar, July 18

The haphazard parking outside schools and colleges by students and parents who come to pick up their children at school/college closing time has become a nuisance for residents, who are caught in long traffic jams every day.

The managements of schools and colleges have failed to solve the problem, rather they allow the parking of two-wheelers outside the campus. Owing to wrong parking, a narrow passage is left for a single four-wheeler. At such points, the driver cannot even cross a cycle rickshaw going ahead of him.

Though the traffic wing has asked the school and college managements to deploy some persons to manage the school transport and not to allow the students to park their vehicles on the roadside, but to no avail.

Sahib, a commuter on the BMC chowk, while talking to The Tribune said: “Traffic chaos is everyday evident outside Apeejay College during closing hours as students coming out from the college and those taking their vehicles parked outside generally don’t care about other commuters and the security personnel and traffic cops fails to control the situation.”

“At the Urban Estate Phase II, outside Cambridge School and MGN School, a large number of people prefer to park their cars on the roadside where no-parking boards has been installed resulting in constricting the passage for vehicular flow,” said another commuter Shubham. “Despite the fact that a spacious parking facility is available inside the school, the road remains chock-a-block due to vehicles parked there,” he added.

He said: “The Traffic Police should take strict action against the school and colleges which are violating the traffic norms and also initiate a drive to challan vehicles.

When contacted, Ashwani Kumar, Additional DCP (Traffic), assured that action would be taken against the college and school managements who are allowing parking of vehicles outside the premises on roadside. Challans would also be issued to those students who park their vehicles on roads.