Got a big car? Park it in no-parking zones
HERE'S A good reason to buy a big can Chances are the traffic police will not tow it away even if you leave it in a no-parking zone. And you'll save the Rs 800 fine, and the trip to the police station to get it released.
Almost all of the 11,978 vehicles towed away by traffic police in Delhi in February were either bikes, or small cars like Santros, Indicas and Marutis. The cops don't have specific numbers, but they have no hesitation admitting that very few big vehicles like SUVs, and high-end sedans like Accords, Corollas or Skodas were towed away.
So why do small cars get specifically targeted? Because most cranes the police have are simply too small to pull away big vehicles.
And why don't the police have bigger cranes? "We have more smaller cranes because they are easy to manoeuvre on congested roads," says Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) S.N. Shrivastava. "But wherever needed,
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Almost all of the 11,978 vehicles towed away by traffic police in Delhi in February were either bikes, or small cars like Santros, Indicas and Marutis. The cops don't have specific numbers, but they have no hesitation admitting that very few big vehicles like SUVs, and high-end sedans like Accords, Corollas or Skodas were towed away.
So why do small cars get specifically targeted? Because most cranes the police have are simply too small to pull away big vehicles.
And why don't the police have bigger cranes? "We have more smaller cranes because they are easy to manoeuvre on congested roads," says Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) S.N. Shrivastava. "But wherever needed,
To read the full article, click here...
To read the ePaper, visit: http://epaper.hindustantimes.com
Labels: antros, delhi, Indicas, Joint Commissioner of Police, Marutis, no parking Zones
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