More spaces only way to improve parking chaos

THE GOVERNMENT of Jinan in East China's Shandong province solicited public views on how to strengthen the regulations covering parking in the city. Xinhua.net commented on Monday:

The aim of the stricter regulations is to end the chaotic parking in the city. However, some large and medium-sized cities already strictly punish drivers for parking illegally but this has failed to improve the situation; the bottleneck is a serious shortage of parking spaces.

According to the Jinan municipal parking inventory last year, 741,500 parking spaces were needed in the city while the revenue from charging drivers to park remained low. Increasing the number of parking lots will undoubtedly ease the pressure from chaotically parked vehicles and ring in more revenue.