Car-park opposite Lake House in deplorable state

A large section of the public vehicle park at D. R. Wijewardene Mawatha, Colombo, opposite Lake House is not suitable to park vehicles, motorists complain.

An executive of a mercantile bank Ranjan Lokumanna who parks his vehicle at the park said that two temporary security check points have been erected at the car park to monitor moving vehicles and also to collect parking charges from motorists.

"We are not bothered about the parking charges, paid to the UDA but the authorities must provide a convenient place to park vehicles," a hospital employee Dayasena Peiris said.

He said during peak hours nearly 500 vehicles are parked and a person who comes to the car park could clearly see the pathetic situation. "Not only large potholes, the park has several shrubs and granite elsewhere and we have to park our vehicles among them," he said.

An employee in an airline company said even foreigners park their vehicles in the park and it cannot be used during rainy days. "Therefore I earnestly request the authorities in the UDA, the Colombo MMC and other relevant authorities to visit the place and make arrangements to convert it into a viable one, he said.

(AK)