Shillong, Feb 6: The Chief Minister, Conrad K Sangma, today inaugurated the state’s first Automated Multilevel Car Park, at Vivekananda Road, Additional Secretariat, Shillong.
Speaking during the inauguration, Chief Minister, Conrad K Sangma, said that among the many challenges that the city of Shillong faces one of the biggest problems is congestion and traffic in the city.
“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 said. 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 create more parking places the Chief Minister also 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 but added that people have to given designated parking spaces where they can park their cars.
The Chief Minister also highlighted about the different approaches of the government to ease traffic and decongest the city the chief 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,” he said.
