New Parking Lots Coming up in Patna to Ease Traffic Gridlock
Patna: Aug. 20, 2007
The Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC), in concurrence with the district administration, has identified nearly a dozen locations dubbed as 'Parking Spots' throughout the state capital where parking lots would be developed to relieve Patna residents from the city's never-ending nightmarish traffic quagmire.
The decision to develop dedicated parking lots in the city was taken at a meeting presided over by the City Commissioner Rana Awadhesh Singh and attended by the Traffic Superintendent of Police, Additional District Magistrate, PMC chief engineer R. K. Singh, and other officials.
The discussion mainly focused on the problem of traffic from Kotwali police station on Dak Bungalow Road to Gandhi Maidan, Frazer Road, Exhibition Road and the railway station, the busiest intersections in Patna where traffic, thanks to inadequate parking facilities, remains a nightmare from early morning to late night.
One-way parking was suggested between the Kotwali to Sinha Library Road and near the planetarium while new parking places would be built near Maurya Lok Shopping Complex and Bandar Bagicha.
Parking lot would also be constructed near the LIC building and Patna Radio Station on Frazer Road, near the old Bankipore Jail, and across from Patna Junction accommodating hundreds of cars.
The administration has also decided to crackdown on illegal parking in front of Vishal Mega Mart on Frazer Road and Hotel Samrat, and shops constructed between Veena Cinema and Patna Junction roundabout, officials said.
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