It is a tight squeeze for motorists driving along Lorong 4/47A to enter Jalan 4/48B in Section 4, off Jalan Penchala in PJ Old Town, as cars are parked on both sides of the road including the road shoulders.
WORKERS in Section 51, Petaling Jaya, who park their cars daily on the sides of the narrow residential roads of Lorong 4/47A, Jalan 4/47 and Lorong 4/48A in Section 4, are causing a nuisance for residents in the neighbourhood.
Residents and motorists who use these roads daily have lodged numerous complaints with Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) and the traffic police, as the parked cars hinder the smooth flow of traffic.
Worse still, the indiscriminate parking on the road shoulders of Lorong 4/48A and Jalan 4/47 is a cause for concern as numerous accidents had occurred at this place.
Rukun Tetangga (RT) Section 4A secretary Mithila Devi Nagendiram, 77, said the lackadaisical attitude of the authorities had allowed the situation to worsen.
“The MBPJ Enforcement Department and the Petaling Jaya traffic police should issue summonses to vehicles parked on the road shoulders of the three roads. Strict enforcement will deter those who work in Section 51 from parking their cars here from 7.30am to 7.45pm daily,” she said.
Mithila said motorists would ignore the yellow lines along the roads and park their vehicles from morning to evening on weekdays.
RT Section 4A vice-chairman David Savarimuthu said the cars parked on the road shoulders of Lorong 4/48A and along Lorong 4/47A caused much difficulty to other road users.
Jalan Penchala station at Jalan Penchala chief Mohamad Akmal Mohamad Khairi said the cars parked haphazardly on the road shoulders of Lorong 4/48A occasionally blocked its fire engines from passing through.
“This hampers our efforts to get to people who are in urgent need.
“Motorists parking their vehicles along Lorong 4/48A are encroaching onto pedestrian footpaths. I would suggest MBPJ to put up concrete bollards to keep cars off the path,” he said.
On another issue, Mithila said the RT had requested MBPJ to remove a tree next to its hall as the branches were rotting and falling onto the roof thus damaging it, but the council had not responded.
David also said MBPJ’s contractor did not complete the fence around the playground.
“Work on the fence had been left half-done. The side along Lorong 4/47A has been completed but Lorong 4/48A has been left with just the metal bars. We need the fence to be completed as vagrants enter the playground at night and vandalise the outer wall of the hall,” he said.
He added that the playground was littered with liquor bottles and posed a danger to children.
David also complained about the damaged bus shelter along Jalan Selangor opposite the MBPJ’s public library, where the shade has been missing for more than a year and commuters had to stand in sweltering heat waiting for their buses to arrive.
