Double Parking
By: JC
I
live in a baranggay very near to Makati Central Business District.
The upside is that we are near the fire stations, police stations and
hospitals. However our location is also strategic such that the storage
houses of restaurants are also conveniently located here. Right beside
where I live is the warehouse of one popular restaurant in Metro
Manila. Aside from their fine dining restaurants located in the malls,
this food business also caters during weddings and birthdays. Our resto
neighbor has 3 big trucks which transports tents, tables and chairs for
large catering contracts, they have 3 smaller trucks for food delivery
to their restaurants and 5 motorcycles which I assume serves as runners
for urgent restaurant needs. All these trucks and motorcycles then park
in our street because thir warehouse parking space is only enough for
one truck.
These parked trucks and
motorcycles obviously create severe street congestion inside our
baranggay. The traffic annoys the car drivers passing our street,
and this often makes them honk their horns mercilessly keeping me awake
all night. In order to solve this recurring noise barrage in our street
at night, I suggest that the restaurant stops parking their trucks on
both side of our street. Every time I hear the horns of the car
outside, I force my self to think of the solution that I can present to
our neighbor-owner. My goal is to create a solution that will minimize
his investment and is very simple to implement. I have came up with
solutions such as parking on the street near the church in our
baranggay. But I know he wont allow it since it would be too far
and his security guard can no longer watch over his trucks.
Here
is the best solution I have thought of. We are given 3 big trucks, 3
small trucks, 5 motorcycles, one parking for big truck and a two-lane
street. I will now assume that the owner of the restaurant does not
want to lease an extra parking space. So, my suggestion is to utilize
his own trucks as his parking space.
Since
we are only left with 3 big trucks to think about, 1 truck will go to
the garage and only the remaining 2 will be parked on our streets. I
know that it is illegal to park in the streets in the first place. But
since it appears that the restaurant has the backing of the baranggay
and nobody bothered them for 10 years, minimizing the nuisance these
trucks are making in our Baranggay will be more than welcome. I have
made some visual estimate of the car sizes and I know my solution will
work. This proposal is very simple, workable and will employ very
minimal investment from the restaurant owner. I am planning to talk to
the owner about this in a very casual way. I hope I'll see him soon. 4
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