Unauthorised parking of autorickshaws on East Aavani Moola Street stretch causes more than a traƒc problem
Unauthorised parking of autorickshaws on East Aavani Moola Street between Amman Sannathi junction and Nandhi statue junction is blocking free ow of vehicular movement.
Tra¡c movement on Aavani Moola Streets has been made one-way because of the narrow width of the carriage way.
Madurai City Tra¡c Police have provided only parking of two-wheelers on one side of the road leaving the rest portion of the street for movement of vehicles.
However, share autorickshaw drivers are audacious in parking the vehicles one after the other next to the row of parked two-wheelers on this small stretch of some 100 metres.
“The purpose of parking the autos at this stretch is to lure the devotees coming out of Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple through Amman Sannathi. In their competition to take more passengers, the drivers park as many as 10 autorickshaws here,” says a shopkeeper.
The parking of autorickshaws next to the twowheelers takes away a considerable carriage way space leading to chocking of tra¡c ow.
“Often, the autorickshaw drivers shout at customers who try to park their two-wheelers in front of the shops to buy goods and chase them away. The drivers ask the riders to park the bikes at the parking lot,” the shopkeeper said.
The autorickshaw drivers also gang up against the shopkeepers when they question them.
“This leads of frequent quarrels between the shopkeepers. Sometimes, it also leads to scu¦es,” one of them said.
Except for one ‘tall’ trafc police posted at this very Amman Sannathi Junction, no other tra¡c police take cognizance of the unauthorised parking even if it causes tra¡c jam.
“When the ‘tall’ policeman comes for duty, the drivers do not muster courage to park here,” the shopkeeper said.
Though the haphazard parking looks like only trafc rules violation, the organised way of unauthorised parking is threatening to snowball into a law and order problem.
The shopkeepers want the Madurai City Tra¡c Police to regulate tra¡c and put an end to the nuisance before it turns for the worse.