Roadside parking continues
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Despite the communications minister's directives and widespread protests from the citizens, the practice of parking vehicles, mainly private cars, has been lingering the people's woes in the overburdened city. Apparently, it has come to this state due to poor implementation of the related laws and directives given by the DMP alongside other government agencies. Taking advantage of this, wealthy people park their cars haphazardly on the streets. It is frustrating for us, who have neither cars nor do contribute to the nagging gridlock on the streets, that "those influentials do not care". So what would we do after buying a car? Seeing the current situation, we might also be tempted to dodge the rules. The government might rhetorically say that they can't manage the roads due to lack of adequate manpower - a very common excuse, or some other new reasons, but it's true that only strict law and its execution in public is the most crucial thing to be addressed. All the DMP members should be given the authority to drive away unauthorised vehicles from the streets and pavements and in case of failure warn them or inform their senior officers of it.
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