Shillong: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma inaugurated the state’s first Automated Multilevel Car Park, at Vivekananda Road near Additional Secretariat in Shillong on Friday.
Addressing the gathering, CM Sangma said that traffic congestion remains one of the biggest challenges that Shillong faces.
He explained that a multi pronged strategy has been devised to gradually decongest the city, adding that the newly inaugurated multilevel car park is one component of this broader plan.
Conrad Sangma said, “A multi pronged strategy was developed to slowly and steadily decongest the city and to address the problems that lead to the problem of traffic and the multilevel car park that we are inaugurating today is just one part of the solution.”
He also informed that there are about nine more multilevel car parks in the pipeline that will create parking spaces for about 1300 vehicles.
To further augment parking infrastructure, the Chief Minister informed about the parking policy where individuals with lands can partner with the government to create parking places where the land owner can collect revenue from the parking space.
“Different aspects are being looked into and one of the factors that lead to traffic is because people park randomly,” he said, adding that people have to give designated parking spaces where they can park their cars.
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The Chief Minister also highlighted about the different approaches of the government to ease traffic and decongest the city.
He said that the prime among them being creating of parking spaces for public transport buses and taxis in Kyndailad, relocation of hawkers from the roads, expansion of the road from Umshyrpi to the seventh mile, an elevated or a four lane road from the Rhino Museum Point till Civil Hospital and Barik and the shifting of administration to the New Administrative City.
“All these proposals are at an advanced stage and are being taken up in a manner to ensure ease of traffic movement not only for immediate traffic relief but for the next few decades,” CM Sangma said.
