NO PARKING

No parking means a place or a road reserved for only movement of traffic and not any vehicle to stop completely.
The formal meaning goes this way
NO PARKING: This sign is erected where parking is not allowed but vehicles can stop for short duration to allow passengers to get into or get out of the vehicle. The sign should be accompanied by suitable kerb or carriageway markings.

An Addition to this symbol is the NO PARKING OR STANDING symbol.


Lets Define It
NO PARKING OR STANDING: This sign is erected where vehicles are prohibited to stop even temporarily.


Now lets add some colour to the blog . Defining Picture of the week !!
Place taken : Jayanagar 4th block Opp RV Dental College, Bus Stand
Time: 5:30 in the evening

The Picture says it all . What else can we say. If our lawful police was doing its duty this vehicle should have been right away in the nearest police station which is about 100 yards away. But unfortunately which was not done so. Instead they pick 2 wheelers which do not occupy space as much as these big vehicles .


THE PROBLEM : Lack of parking space, Parking Congestion


Time for some GYAAN on parking
CARS
There are 2 kinds of parking for cars
a) Horizontal Parking : Parking your cars horizontally or Angularly as we usually do it. This kind of parking is mainly useful when there’s less space for parking but the roads are wide enough to take the length of the car.
b) Vertical Parking: Parking your cars one behind the other is an example for vertical parking, Although this occupies more space when parking. We use

Please note that u need more practice with driving to park your cars vertically rather than parking them horizontally.


BIKES
What Parking Strategy can u employ for bikes ? ? ?
Well if you people were thinking that it what would be the ideal ideas to park a bike? The solution is really simple

Park your bikes on main stands in crowded places .

Are u thinking how this is going to work ? ?

An ideal bike takes just about 2 feet in width to park. But so called smart people always flamboyantly try to park it on their side stands which occupies 2.6 feet to park. If the parking space length is about 20 feet, only 7 bikes can be parked on side stand where as 10 bikes on main stand !!

More Pics....ARE WE EDUCATEDS?



THE SOLUTION :
What should the Citizens Do ??
Respect the “ No Parking” Signs more and abide them.

An alternative for them would be that they should park their cars a few yards away from their destination and walk till the destination which would result in some steps towards parking decongestion.
Respect the style of parking. Follow the order of parking If the parking is either vertical or horizontal meaning not to change the order in which it is parked.

What the Government can Do ? ?

Build more Multilevel Parking Spaces. Saying this is so easy. But implementing this is really tough. The Govt has to implement it only on new constructions. But to do it our Govt has to take sound advice from designers all over Europe where this plan is implemented excellently.Temporarily allocate Litigated land for parking in major busy junctions, so that the traffic and the parking scenario gets eased a little bit. The Govt gets a lot of parking revenue from vehicles every year which goes unaccounted. This unaccounted money can be diverted into an Accounted channel this way. With the renewal of insurance of vehicles each year they must have a fixed parking charge associated with the vehicle each year and collect it with the insurance when it is paid.
With this model, the, Govt is also saved of getting huge money cheated, which can be used for the betterment of the current state of affairs.With this We would like to conclude this week’s Problem of dealing with “ No Parking” .

Hope we find a better solution with more ideas from the readers’ end too.

Regards,

Sudheer & Ramanujan