Beware the vehicles
Some of the housing schemes have become parking areas for private buses, staff vans, school vans etc. and some of these vehicles are parked throughout the day or night and the authorities seem to turn a blind eye to this practice. There are no wardens to charge parking fees from those who park these vehicles.
At the Anderson Golf Links Housing Scheme, this has become a major problem for flat dwellers for the following reasons:
Flat dwellers do not have space to park their own vehicles and are compelled to find a vacant space elsewhere. Flat dwellers are disturbed at all times of the day and night with the raising of the vehicle engines and also when minor repairs are done.
Flat dwellers do not have walking space because vehicles are parked on both sides of narrow roads.
Internal roads such as the roads connecting Park Road to Chitra Lane/Kirula Road have become roadways for normal traffic and with vehicles parked on both sides of the roads; even schoolchildren who walk to the Dudley Senanayake College are at risk. There are no pavements for pedestrians.
Flat dwellers are required to hand over their garbage to the CMC. Those who park such vehicles throw their garbage including leftover lunch packets, water and liquor bottles etc. into the side drains and there is no one to clean them resulting in blockage of drains and flooding of flats on the ground floors, during heavy rain.
This matter should receive the immediate attention of the CMC and other concerned authorities as well as politicians of the area.
V. Amarasinghe
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