Sunday’s event for school children witness heavy turnout of children accompanied by parents at Vestry school in the city. While the organisers claimed that they expected around 800 participants, the visitors’ count touched more than 1,000, and half-the-number of vehicles arrived at the venue near Major Saravanan Roundabout. Poor planning and management were cited as the reason for the traffic congestion on Sunday as the vehicles invade a portion of the arterial roads outside the venue."Though we insisted the organisers to direct the vehicle owners who parked the two-wheelers outside the school campus to move the vehicles to the campus, they did not listen to our requests. The organisers of events play a major role in causing traffic congestion in nearby roads," a traffic police person said. Sunday’s event disrupting the traffic was not first and certainly not going to be the last unless city police educate the managements of grounds and private halls to avoid disrupting public movement.Traffic police said that poor planning in hosting events by renting a hall that is too small to accommodate the visitors or hiring venues in arterial spots without proper parking facility have been causing difficulties to the public. "Hotels and marriage halls in the city should take responsibility in catering adequate space for visitors to park their vehicles. Police should host awareness meeting with such private hall owners to help city roads remain congestion free," A Anbarasu, resident of VOC Road said.Besides poor planning, callous attitude of public who park their vehicle on the city roads was cited as the predominant reason for traffic snarls. "People nowadays lack social responsibility while commuting and even parking their vehicles. Public cooperation is needed for us to address the traffic woes," a senior police officer said.

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