Parking woes spill over to several residential areas
The Hindu
Citizens term paid parking permits as problematic
There have been several instances when Meera K.D., a resident of Malleshpalya, has been unable to take out her own car parked inside her compound. More often than not, her front gate is blocked by illegally parked vehicles. “There are play schools and coaching classes in a residential area. Parents who come to drop off their children often park their vehicles in front of gates, blocking the residents,” she fumed.
With increasing commercialisation of residential areas across the city, people living in residential areas are grappling with parking woes. The problem is not restricted to popular neighbourhoods such as Indiranagar, Jayanagar, Malleswaram, HBR Layout, Kammanahalli, HSR Layout and Koramangala, but has spread to the side lanes of Banaswadi, Sanjaynagar, Vidyaranyapura and others.

Currently, only the services in the 32 series stop at the section of the road adjacent to the Broadway terminus, temporarily closed on account of reconstruction work. Small traders association tells R. Ragu that ensuring the services now accommodated at the temporary terminus at Island Grounds stop at NSC Bose road would benefit visitors to the markets in Parrys

The silent reading movement in the Mylapore-Mandaveli-RA Puram area showed up first at Nageswara Rao Park around two years ago, with modest ambitions, when Balaji launched it along with other reading enthusiasts from the region. This initiative has now moved parks, and seems to set to get entrenched in one. Due to renovation work at Nageswara Park, the reading session became irregular. With the Nageswara Rao park work gaining more surface area, it had to be shifted elsewhere. And it seems set to continue with a newly discovered green patch in RK Nagar in the Sundays to follow.











