Drivers slow in adapting to parallel parking

It has been almost six months since the enforcement of parallel parking along some of the city’s most congested streets and so far 185 persons have been charged with breaching the new traffic rule, according to Traffic Chief Dion Moore.

Moore, in a recent interview with Stabroek News, said the disregard of the rule and continued diagonal parking by drivers is of concern to the traffic department, particularly in light of a noticeable increase in damage accidents. He explained that damage accidents often occur when drivers who have parked diagonally reverse in an attempt to get into the flow of traffic.

So far, parallel parking has been enforced on Carmichael Street, Robb Street, Regent Street, Avenue of the