More tigers to roar on City roads

More tigers to roar on City roads
S Lalitha

The increasing snarl of traffic on the City’s streets has prompted the Traffic Police to consider introducing more Tigers to rein in violators. News of vehicle being towed away by a Tiger that runs on wheels, is no good news to any motorist or driver. Vehicles owners actually dread the Tiger, but the Traffic Police is keen to have more of them.

More Tigers
“The 21 Tigers in the City are just not enough to handle the huge number of parking violations that take place daily,” says ACP (Planning) Narasamaiah. Each vehicle has room capacity for a maximum of four two-wheelers while the four-wheelers are towed away along with the vehicle. “We need more Tigers to take care of parking violators or atleast bigger vehicles.”

“This is likely to be sanctioned in the next State budget. We may try through the B-Track route to get more vehicles.”

The number of vehicles being towed away has decreased when you compare it with the previous year. Up to June this year, 4,198 towing cases have been booked and a fine of Rs 8,89,800 collected.

This is almost half of that booked the previous year. The half-yearly statistics for 2006 were: 7,998 cases with a fine amount of Rs 16,55,100 collected.

MG Road and Chickpet are areas where parking violations are rampant and and the towaway vehicles are seen here almost daily.

When you take into account, the statistics of the last seven years, the year 2001 seems to have the maximum violations with 1,69,439 towing cases booked and a fine amount of Rs 1,84,079,50 collected while the year 2006 had 85,973 cases booked with the towing charges collected being Rs 1,77,51,200.

“Go to a parking lot. Do not indulge in double parking or parking at intersections,” the ACP advises. But does anyone care to listen?