By R. Chandra Prakash, MGP
Vehicular congestion in Central Business District (CBD) is escalating day by day. This has started to very adversely impact heritage, commerce and tourism of the city in general and of the CBD in particular. There is a feeling among the public that shop owners park their vehicles opposite their shops all through the day which worsens the congestion on these roads. Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has been threatening, though meekly, to remove all cellar shops, as they were meant for the parking in the first place. Further, MCC has been contemplating, for ages though, to introduce ‘pay and park’ under the premise that such a step would take away the lure of reckless day-long parking, which it considers to be the main reason for the traffic congestion in the CBD. As part of Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP)’s Traffic Study Project, it was considered essential to meet the merchants in CBD to have their side of the story.
