[Resolved] Mumbai Rto — Taxi Parking

ashishkh

from Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Oct 4, 2010

Address: Mumbai Suburban, Maharashtra

This is every days problem in my area (Mahakali Caves Road, Andheri East), i am staying in a chawl, opposite to takshila bldg gate 1. There is a taxi stand just by our chawl enterance. There is hardly any space to walk on the main road due to taxi parking. The chawl memebers which includes senior citizens are unable to even walk or cross the road. Taxi drivers hardly provide any space for navigation.

Due to road concreting the road height has been raised by about 1.5 feet. The taxi drivers does parking in our chawl enterance street which creates space problem. The residents having two wheelers do not get parking place for our own vehicles. The taxi drivers were adviced to keep a space to the chawl enterance, but he did not agree and started fighting and it still continues. Additionally, thanks to BMC for illegal hawkers sitting here, causing a lot of inconvinience to the people staying around here.

Problems:

1) Washing and reparing or taxi in front of the gate. Which leads to undue logging of water which leads to mosquito problem and chocking the BMC drainage holes.

My simple question is: Why it is such that all facilities are provided to the resident staying in building and poosh areas. We are also categories as tax payers. The banners as NO PARKING IN FRONT OF THE GATE, NO HAWKERS ZONE, which we simply find near the building area. There is a lot of space avaiable adjusent to takshila gate no 1 and no 2. The taxi parking can be easily shifted to this area. This is my complaint to the concerned RTO authority, who can look into this matter, and help us out.

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Aug 13, 2020

Complaint marked as Resolved

Apr 17, 2014

Updated by ashishkh Fed-up residents tell the BMC / Traffic police to prevent illegal parking on footpath and in front of gate

The senior citizens of Mahakali Kutir Chawl, Opp. Takshila Bldg, Gate 1, Andheri East, Mumbai-93, have come together to fight against the menace of illegal parking at entrance in their area, leaving no space for pedestrians. The residents of Mahakali Kutir Seva Sang, Andheri East, Mumbai-93, recently sent a letter to BMC's K-East ward office demanding immediate action against taxi/two wheeler's shop owners who have parked in front of the gate. The complaint is primarily against the shoppers on rental basis in our area.

A majority of the complainants are senior citizens from the area, who have taken up the issue on a war footing. "It's been just a few months since the footpaths and roads at Mahakali Kutir Chawl were resurfaced for the benefit of the residents. We had hoped that at least now people will stop parking their taxis / two wheeler's on the pavement and our entrance. Unfortunately, the opposite has happened, " complained Ashish K Hatkar, a resident of the Mahakali Kutir Seva Sang Chawl.

"There is no space for us to walk as the lane is very narrow. When we brought this to the notice of the traffic police, we were asked to approach the BMC. We had no choice but to register a complaint against the owners, " said Ashish.

Ashish, a resident of Mahakali Kutir, said. “There is a taxi stand in front of our chawl entrance, all the day taxis has parked otherwise shop owners, park their bikes in front of our entrance. The condition is the worst in the evening, " he added.

A prompt action will be highly appreciated.