Policeman makes a mark in traffic management

Parking plan based on officer’s experience in U.K.

The vehicle parking woes of Kozhikode city have laid the seed to several multilevel parking plaza projects that are taking too long to materialise. Even when the vehicle density in the city was increasing day by day, there seemed to be no sustainable solution to the parking issue, until sub inspector Manoj Babu stepped into the picture.

It was this traffic policeman, who first thought about putting the road sides to better use, thus reducing traffic congestion as well as the workload of the traffic policemen. That is how the comprehensive parking plan for Kozhikode took form, with the aim to convert the city into a parking-friendly one.

The project being implemented by the Traffic Police with the assistance of the Kozhikode Municipal Corporation is based on the experiences of Mr. Babu during his decade-long stay in the United Kingdom. “I noted that there was enough space along the roads in many parts of the city which could be conveniently used for parking, but were marked as no-parking zones. The first step was to mark the spaces where people could park their vehicles”, Mr. Babu said.