Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 28: The residents of Gole Market Housing Colony today assailed the Government’s move of revising multi-tier parking complex at the exiting site of decades old central park and termed the proposal as ridiculous.
In a statement, IC Jandial, Secretary General of J&K Society of Technocrat and former Region Chairman Lions International said that nowhere in the country a traffic rotary-cum-park has been used for construction of such a monstrous concrete structure which is bound to create more traffic problems.
In an effort to utilize the space available in rotary-cum-park, the designers have ignored various functional aspects of a rotary and the traffic hazards which are bound to occur because of the wrong proposal, he added.
Jandial said that the existing park on the round about (rotary) has convergence of all types of traffic from six- roads coming from different directions. Taking into consideration the present traffic load in the area, the size of the roundabout is just sufficient and therefore there is no scope for any interference with it.
The proposed multi-tier complex envisages two entries for cars and one exit besides entry and exit for two-wheeler, which is bound to result in cross movement of traffic in the roundabout thereby affecting the smooth flow of traffic, he added.
The consultant has misled the Ministers and ERA about technical feasibility of the project, he said, adding that the residents are against this ADB funded ERA multi-storey project at the site of a park.
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