Friday, October 24, 2008

Contrast@PJ: Exclusive Car Park


Car parking is always a problem with urban folks especially in the high demand area. For example people used to make few rounds and spent more time to look for parking closed to their destination. They would prefer to spend time scouting for parking lot rather than getting a parking lot far away from the destination. This is a common phenomenon amongst the complacent urban people. While to me, it is not a problem as these people have a choice to get a car park, it is unforgivable of having some irresponsible to pre-book a parking lot exclusively for them, and at time even do not occupy it for a long period. It is a common scene at the town centres of PJ witnessing the placing of tyres, bins, barricades, sign boards, tables or chairs, and now the flower pot in the parking lot in front of the shop houses. The right of people is deprived.

The question is what to do? Shall stringent actions be taken against the intruders or shall we relocate the type of businesses such as automobiles service centres elsewhere to cure this problem and hence restore the beauty of cityscape? Or else the competition for urban space is not only happened between development and environment, but rather businesses and residents, a dilemma blocking the achievement for sustainable development.

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