City Hall takes control of parking

Dec 17, 2015 News

While some minibus operators are complaining of what they deem to be a major inconvenience of having to wait in line and not having enough space to park, the Mayor and Councillors of Georgetown (M&CC) has begun to

City employees working on the bus park lanes.

take control of parking in the City.
Public Relations Officer Debra Lewis, in explaining the move, said, “Over the years, the consistent increase in the minibuses and cars used for public transportation, the central area in the vicinity of Stabroek Market, has become very congested and disorderly”.
With a view to bringing order to the Capital city, she said the Council has commenced a process which aims at enforcing the parking regulations in several sections of Georgetown.
A special demarcation exercise has commenced, which allows for buses to be properly landed. “This would facilitate the smooth flow of minibus traffic at the Lodge/South, Lamaha, Hospital and Kitty/Campbellville minibus parks, this pattern would be repeated throughout the City.”
Lewis also noted that the M&CC is also considering several proposals to establish other bus parks around Georgetown.
The Municipal and District Councils Act, empowers the Georgetown Municipality to regulate and control the Council’s roads.
“A Council shall have power, subject to the provisions of the Town and Country Planning Act, the Road Act and the Motor Vehicle and Road Traffic Act to construct, maintain, repair, protect and carry out works for the betterment of Council roads in Council area and to regulate and control traffic thereon”.
Section 274 of the Municipal and District Council Act States that the Council can “establish, maintain and control parking; erect and maintain parking meters; regulate the standing and parking of vehicles on Council roads; erect and maintain traffic control signals and traffic signs on council roads; regulate the speed of vehicles on council roads; designate particular council roads as one-way roads or one specified direction; require vehicles to stop before entering or crossing any council road or to yield to other traffic; and also restrict the use of any council roads to vehicles of specified type or weights”.