The government-appointed Taipa and Coloane Community Service Consultative Council hosted this year’s first regular meeting yesterday, during which two of its 15 members voiced their concerns about the city’s “insufficient” motorbike parking facilities.
The meeting was held at the Islands District Public Services Centre in Seac Pai Van estate in Coloane.
Council member Lo Chung Yee said that she had received complaints from residents about the lack of auxiliary sign 12a at motorcycle parking areas in Coloane, thereby failing to guide riders to park their vehicles in motorcycle parking racks there, resulting in illegal parking. Consequently, Lo urged the government to raise the number of the auxiliary signs in Taipa and Coloane, especially in densely populated neighbourhoods or narrow streets such as Rua de Tai Lin in Taipa, in order to reduce the impact of illegal motorcycle parking on residents.
Lo also urged the government to install more motorcycle parking facilities in the two islands to alleviate the problem of residents’ parking woes, while launching a feasibility study on the utilisation rate of a public underground carpark in Estrada Governador Albano de Oliveira in Taipa for coaches and other heavy vehicles, and releasing the results of the study on the carpark’s optimisation scheme as soon as possible, in order to avoid wasting limited resources by releasing more parking spaces for cars and motorcycles.
In view of the fact that there are many riders who often park their motorcycles on the pavement or park two motorbikes in a single rack, fellow member Lei Man Chong urged the government to gain a better understanding of the demand for motorcycle parking and to implement remedial measures in line with the actual situation to ensure an adequate supply of legal parking spaces. He said the measures would help identify areas with greater demand for motorcycle parking spaces.
Lei also urged the government to strengthen public awareness of parking regulations, the importance of legal parking and the advantages of carparks by organising public events such as community talks and campus seminars, adding that during the events, parking regulations could be better explained, correct ways of parking could be demonstrated, and the public could be reminded of the possible consequences and seriousness of illegal parking.
Members of the government-appointed Taipa and Coloane Community Service Consultative Council hold their first regular meeting of the year at the Islands District Public Services Centre in Seac Pai Van yesterday. – Photo: Yuki Lei
