People have strongly criticised the City District Government (CDG) for launching a campaign of lifting vehicles without providing proper parking facility in different areas of the provincial metropolis.
People say parking facilities in all busy areas of the city are extremely inadequate, while the City District Government has no plan to develop direly needed parking lots.
Talking to APP on Sunday people said when the City District Government has not provided parking lots, morally and legally it has no right to impose fine and lift vehicles parked at different roads.
They said: "In the countries where road sides are used for parking, city governments properly mark roads, which can be used for parking and others as no parking places."
However, Lahore City District Government has not categorised any roads as parking or non-parking places, adding as such no rules are followed and no time is lost in lifting private vehicles causing hardship to the owners.
Mostly lifted on whims, some vehicles are left parked at a road, complained the citizens. They maintained that none is aware of the criteria of the city government in this regard.
One Naveed, lawyer by profession, said: "It is strange that the City District Government has auctioned some roadsides against huge sums to private parties for using as parking lots."
"It is not clear under what law it has been done," he said, adding "if district government can occupy any road then it has no moral and legal justification to take action against others."
He said: "If an action is against the law then no individual or organisation in the City District Government has the right to indulge in it."
One Mohammad Nawaz, a teacher whose vehicle was lifted from Ichhra by CDG staff the other day, said, "when there are no parking lots almost in any area of the city, the district government has no right to lift vehicles on charge of violation of so-called parking rules."
He said: "It is now about two years since the CDG started lifting vehicles, but no parking lot has been developed in any area of the city." He said in such circumstances motorists have the right to ask as to where the amount collected as fine for violation of so-called parking rules has gone.
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