12 major areas including Abdullah Haroon Road, Schon Circle to Boat Basin and Empress Market
Staff Report
KARACHI: Charged parking will be renewed along 12 major roads, according to a resolution passed by the city council Wednesday.
The charged parking will be allowed on Abdullah Haroon Road, Zaibunissa Road, Tariq Road and Bahadurabad, Park Towers Clifton, Empress Market, Queen’s Road and its adjacent areas, Talpur Road, Mumtaz Hassan Road, Hasrat Mohani Road, Beaumont Road, Aga Khan III Road and from Schon Circle to Boat Basin.
The chairman of the transport committee, Nadeem Hashmi, moved the resolution to the dismay of the opposition in the council’s session Wednesday. He said that after the charged parking system was started the problems of illegal parking and traffic flows would be resolved and more than 1,000 people would be employed under the contract system.
Opposition leader Saeed Ghani said the issue had been discontinued by the previous city council but if it needed to be brought up again another resolution should be tabled at another session and a committee should be formed to debate the issue. “The previous city council had cancelled the agreement with the contractor,” he said, adding that this move was greatly appreciated and if the city government brought charged parking back it would be greatly resented by the people.
Naib Nazim Nasreen Jalil said that some groups of citizens had approached her with the request for charged parking at these spots. She ruled out the idea of forming another committee in the presence of a committee that had already presented a report. She ordered that only three members from each side would be allowed to speak on the issue