Haphazard parking of vehicles clog T. Nagar’s pedestrian plaza
The Hindu
The multi-level car parking lot, built at a cost of ₹40 crore with a capacity to accommodate 500 vehicles, remains mostly unused owing to various issues
The festival season is here and so are the perennial traffic snarls in T. Nagar, including at its pedestrian plaza.
There seems to be no respite for residents as by-lanes have been turned into free parking lots. The extended footpaths, including those in the plaza, have been taken over by two-wheelers.
For instance, rows of two-wheelers can be seen on the footpath near the Thankiachalam Road-Theagaraya Road junction when just across the road, the multi-level car park (MLCP), a structure built at a cost of ₹40 crore and can accommodate 500 vehicles, remains unused.
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