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Police help organize parking for driving commuters
From:Shine  |  2020-02-24 17:29

A traffic police officer works on Monday morning outside the Ping'an Finance Center in Lujiazui.

As more workers return to their offices and drive to work instead of taking the Metro or buses, parking problems have worsened in some parts of the city.

Parking had never been a problem at Huawei’s Shanghai Research Center, which is located in Jinqiao Town, Pudong New Area, where over 13,000 people are employed.

The company has 3,000 parking spaces, and some of its staff took shuttle buses arranged by the company to work before the outbreak of the coronavirus. But now over 4,500 cars look for parking space every morning.

As the surge of cars began to block the streets at the company’s three entrances, Pudong traffic police stepped in and coordinated solutions.

Now, four smaller streets nearby have been opened up for parking, and traffic police officers patrol major streets during rush hours to streamline the flow of vehicles.

The same problem occurred in the core business district of Lujiazui.

At Ping’an Finance Center, its 450 parking slots were soon filled up during morning rush hour, leaving cars lined up on the streets to block traffic.

Here, traffic police in charge of the area addressed the problem by making the nearby Foxconn Building open up its surplus parking spots to people working at Ping’an Finance Center.

Similar efforts have seen results elsewhere in the city.

By the end of last week, a total of 37 temporary street parking areas with 1,142 parking spots had been opened for motorists, marked by a blue sign with the letter “P.”

Police said they will continue to work on setting up such parking spots according to traffic flows and conditions on the streets. They will also look for available parking places within residential complexes.

By the end of last year, there were over 3,300 street parking areas around the city with about 100,000 parking slots, police said.

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A temporary streetparkingspot marked by a blue sign with the letter "P" on it.

Streamlining entrances

The BRICS Tower in Lujiazui isn't short of parking spaces for people working there, but cars often lined up and blocking the streets as they waited to be checked in to the building.

Pudong police say the problem was that all people who enter the building have to have their identity verified and their temperatures taken. This caused cars to quickly become backed up.

Police have addressed the problem by advising the property management firm handling the building to better sort out names of people working there for more efficient identity verification and to let verified people enter the compound first and have their temperatures measured at the entrance to the garage.

The traffic pressure around the building has been relieved after this measure was taken.

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