Even as shop owners in Lake Market on Rashbehari Avenue vow to hit the road to struggle for the purchasers' right to park in front of the market, there are few who prefer the parking lot 12 times the size in the market basement.
“Even when all of the parking a lot get stuffed up, there is ample unused house in the underground facility. Shoppers don’t like to pressure down the steep ramps. Instead, they wish to park on the doorstep, purchase what they want and go away. It’s how all consumers behave,” points out Lake Bazar Sanjuktya Byabsaye Samiti joint secretary Monotosh Banerjee.
On Thursday, the 400-odd shop owners of Lake Market had blocked Rashbehari Avenue, difficult the restoration of the parking lot for six vehicles in front of the market. Just after they were agitating, greater than part the basement was vacant. Only twice every week — on Wednesday night when a division retailer gives giant reductions and on Saturday night when the mall draws cine-goers, foodies and consumers — that the underground parking lot is going complete.
The mall control has tried to encourge more consumers to park their vehicles in the basement by first switching the entry and exit gates after which by slashing the parking fee from Rs 30 in step with hour to Rs 10. But it has not borne any result.
Rimjhim Sanyal, who has to on occasion spend upto part an hour to locate an empty slot in some of the within sight alleys however by no means drives right down to the basement to park, stated girls felt unsafe coming into a basement.
Acop stated it wasn’t near to the six parking a lot however the spillover that caused visitors snarls. “The proposal to prohibit the parking was first mooted eight months in the past. When we tried to put into effect it on Thursday, the shop owners resisted,” stated a sergeant KMC has knowledgeable police that if there is any unauthorised parking, it will take no matter action it deemed fit. But it has not commented at the 4 VIP parking slots on Rashbehari Road.
“Even when all of the parking a lot get stuffed up, there is ample unused house in the underground facility. Shoppers don’t like to pressure down the steep ramps. Instead, they wish to park on the doorstep, purchase what they want and go away. It’s how all consumers behave,” points out Lake Bazar Sanjuktya Byabsaye Samiti joint secretary Monotosh Banerjee.
On Thursday, the 400-odd shop owners of Lake Market had blocked Rashbehari Avenue, difficult the restoration of the parking lot for six vehicles in front of the market. Just after they were agitating, greater than part the basement was vacant. Only twice every week — on Wednesday night when a division retailer gives giant reductions and on Saturday night when the mall draws cine-goers, foodies and consumers — that the underground parking lot is going complete.
The mall control has tried to encourge more consumers to park their vehicles in the basement by first switching the entry and exit gates after which by slashing the parking fee from Rs 30 in step with hour to Rs 10. But it has not borne any result.
Rimjhim Sanyal, who has to on occasion spend upto part an hour to locate an empty slot in some of the within sight alleys however by no means drives right down to the basement to park, stated girls felt unsafe coming into a basement.
Acop stated it wasn’t near to the six parking a lot however the spillover that caused visitors snarls. “The proposal to prohibit the parking was first mooted eight months in the past. When we tried to put into effect it on Thursday, the shop owners resisted,” stated a sergeant KMC has knowledgeable police that if there is any unauthorised parking, it will take no matter action it deemed fit. But it has not commented at the 4 VIP parking slots on Rashbehari Road.
No takers for Lake Mall basement parking lot
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Reviewed by Kailash
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May 06, 2018
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