Thursday, January 31, 2008

19 paid parking lots for four-wheelers


IN SESSION: A view of the Chennai Corporation Council meeting at the Ripon Building on Monday.

CHENNAI: Nineteen new paid parking lots for four-wheelers were approved by the Corporation Council on Thursday. They would be operated by the Tamil Nadu Ex-Servicemen Association.

The association had sent a list of 26 proposed locations. After zonal officials pointed out that seven of them could contribute to traffic congestion, the list was whittled down to 19.

The area near the Marina swimming pool alone allows parking of buses and vans as well.

MUC Ground, the stretch between Rattan Bazaar and the MMC Hostel Gate, and parts of Wallajah Road, Khader Nawaz Khan Road, Greams Lane and Wallace Garden 2nd street are earmarked for parking. In Anna Nagar, stretches adjacent to Santhosh Super Market, Hotel Saravana Bhavan, Anna Plaza, and between Sugsagar Restaurant and Tamil Nadu Mercantile Bank are the places that have been chosen.

Stretches near Citi Bank on Anna Salai, between the Whites Road-Anna Salai junction and the TVK Salai junction, under the overbridge on Peter’s Road near Hotel Saravana Bhavan, near the Indian Oil Petrol Bunk on Venkatanarayana Road and MS Salai in T. Nagar, near 11th Cross Street and Hotel Planet on the beach in Besant Nagar and a part of the Pattinapakkam South Canal Bank Road are the other proposed locations.


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