City Manager awaits legislation to resolve parking issues
City Manager Ms Janice Bratwaithe-Edwards on JTV CH 55 Big Story with Peta-Gay Coombs and Cathy O. Richards on July 14, 2017, said that among other covert works being done is the setting up of a committee that is tasked with the responsibility to work out a master plan as instructed by the responsible Minister, Honourable Mark H. Vanterpool (R4).
"We are actually looking at proposed sites for parking within the confines of the city. Parking to the extent where we can look at the outskirts of city and have people shuttle into the city."
Multi-storey car park
One of the things Mrs Brathwaite-Edwards said they are exploring is the construction of a high rise building along DeCastro Street that would accommodate as much as 630 vehicles.
“Once those are inside there then all the other parking spaces in Road Town would be a little more lucent because people would be able to go and come a little more freely,” Brathwaite-Edwards said, adding that such parking facility would be more utilised by persons parking for at least a full working day.
Awaiting legislation
Additionally, the City Manager said plans are also in the making and papers are being put together to take their ideas to the people who they recognise must be consulted in the process, but more to it becoming a reality is the required legislation.
"I am just waiting on a piece of legislation, and once that goes through then I will be well on the way to getting things to happen in the city."
However, in the interim, Mrs Braithwaite-Edwards said that immediately following the Emancipation festivities this year the Road Town Festival Grounds will be utilised as an official parking lot and an aggressive remarking drive will be the order of the day.
The City Manager also agreed that the issue of persons having several vehicles at once is causing a problem but it is an issue out of her domain to speak about.
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