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An alternative site for the Suddie Car Park is desperately needed

Jan 25, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
The Region Two Administration should take a positive step, as a matter of public convenience, to provide a suitable alternative site for the Suddie Car Park, where a worsening situation is continuously developing, with detrimental effects to the society.
With so much idle land ideally suited for this purpose within the area, an ugly reflection is being cast to see, unto this day in a civilized society, only the sides of the road parapet by the market junction being used to accommodate vehicles.
From the limited space being available, and with an increase in vehicles almost every day, there is too much congestion and confusion, paving the way for a traffic hazard as well.
A portion of the parapet is also encroached upon illegally and permanently, by nearby business owners, in making it all the more difficult for drivers to get more parking space.
With so many conspicuous signs by the roadside of the nearby hospital being a silent zone, it was not the rightful place, from the very inception, to have such a park, where tremendous lawlessness emerges from disorderly behaviour; cursing and noise nuisance is very much evident.
A day hardly passes without drivers complaining about harassment by traffic ranks for committing offences within the cramped parking area, while maintaining their innocence for being at fault.
The drivers so affected have bluntly refused to pay a ticket fine, and are defending the charges instituted against them in court.
Such incidents could well have been avoided by having a proper parking facility.
For more than a decade now, approaches were made to the relevant authorities to have a new site; but for what reason nothing is being done is still unknown.
A spanking new park can be seen in the Anna Regina town, and a similar one for the Suddie area should be given priority for this year, with the earlier the better, as to delay could prove to be dangerous.
Baliram Persaud

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