trichy the alternateside parking initiative launched by trichy city traffic police has failed to achieve the desired result thanks to poor enforcement which encourages vehicles to be parked on both sides of arterial roads causing traffic congestion the haphazard parking of load carriers twowheelers and cars on salai road near main guard gate and madurai road near marakkadai flouting the parking rule has left road users perplexedaccording to traffic police the salai road stretch between l a cinemas and main guard gate junction was supposed to allow vehicles to be parked only on one side of the road after 15 days vehicles would be allowed to park on the other side the turns change every 15 days however for the past few weeks vehicles including trucks loading products from home appliance shops on salai road are parked on both sides of the road leaving minimal space for buses and other vehicles to commuteboth wrongside riding and haphazard parking choke vehicular movement on salai road senior citizens cannot drive cars as buses are speeding despite the narrow width of the road s ramakrishnan a resident of annamalai nagar said as minitrucks visiting the shops situated on salai road are parked over the carriageway for hours twowheeler riders said they are prone to be mowed down by buses from behind of the total 35 feet to 40footwide road only 25 feet is available for vehicles to commute the same is the situation on madurai road connecting marakkadai with main guard gate junction the alternate days parking allowing vehicles to park on the left side of the road on a day and the right side of the carriageway on the next day was not followed we will deploy traffic police personnel on both stretches to warn and divert load vehicles from being parked on the carriageway more sign boards will be placed a traffic police official told toi