Arusha. Residents here have complained against the poor parking infrastructure and arrangement supervised by a private agent.
Speaking to this reporter in separate interviews
last weekend, they said that a uniform parking fee applied for all
motorists didn’t differentiate the type of vehicle.
A resident of Sakina along the Namanga Road,
Olalashe Laizer, said that the arrangement was chaotic because big
vehicles couldn’t fit in the allocated parking lots.
“If a vehicle does not fit the parking lot, it is
not our fault,” he told this reporter on Friday, adding that there
should be specific parking areas for different types of vehicles.
Meanwhile, other residents of the city, Kayusi
Stephano and Ather Sixtus, accused agents commissioned to supervise the
exercise and collect parking fee of harassing motorists, particularly
locking their vehicles for wrong parking.
The acting city engineer, Mr Hezron Kilumahama,
acknowledged the drawback, saying a contractor assigned to design the
parking lots in August last year focuses on saloon cars only.
“We have realised the problem and will act to
ensure there are parking lots wide enough to park other types of
vehicles, including big tourist vans,” he told this reporter.
Arusha is one of the fastest growing cities in the
country and has of late seen a spiralling number of vehicles which have
clogged its narrow roads and streets.
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