Camp Street next for police’s parallel parking initiative

Cars parked diagonally on Camp Street yesterday

Parallel parking will soon be implemented on Camp Street as the Guyana Police Force Traffic Department continues its efforts to ease congestion throughout the city.

Congestion on Camp Street between Middle and Quamina streets, which had been confined to school drop off and pick up hours because of the situation of St Margaret’s Primary, quadrupled just over two years ago when the Guyana Revenue Authority moved to the former Clico building on the opposite side of that block. There was also no respite during the day until the end of business hours.

No parking signs directly in front of the GRA are routinely ignored and there is seldom any traffic officer there enforcing them. Moves by the GRA to set up parking sites in Waterloo Streets for customers failed miserably, as no one used them. A further attempt was