The Lusaka City Council has abolished reserved parking slots in the city with effect from January next year.
Council Assistant Public Relations Manager Mulunda Habeenzu said the action was in response to complaints from members of the public.
He told ZANIS in Lusaka today that the decision was arrived at to solve the problems of parking in town experienced by motorists adding that the parking spaces would instead be open to every motorist at a fee.
Mr. Habeenzu noted that the Council would only allow companies that have paid upfront to possess reserved parking slots until February when agreements expired.
He said it was sad to note that some companies allocated themselves reserved parking slots without authority from the Council.
However, Mr. Habeenzu appealed to companies that were in an agreement with the local authority and still owed the Council to finish paying their outstanding arrears.
He also urged the public to work with the Council by paying the parking fee that would be arrived at.
ZANIS
long overdue bcos you cannot find parking space in the central business dstrict. this should also be extended to second hand car dealers who have taken up most space downtown. I hope LCC wont relent like it did on cross boarder traders who smuggle in illegal beer at comesa market
it important that LCC improves their revenue collection and should deliver on their obligation. i also hope that these rules will not be changing every day
Good LCC,Its so frustrating to drive around the whole city looking for parking space when some chaps are busy keeping parking space to them selves. Great decision
Good! Tomorrow I am coming to park on Sata’s reserved slot. What? The man is in South Africa and he doesn’t need that slot, and from LCC directive, it is not his slot anymore. So stop whining
LCC should also ensure that parking lots do not become permanent parking places for Taxis, as it becomes so frustrating to the other users.
Miracles do happen, some thing usefull comming from PF run councils. I am shocked. Or has this got nothing to do with PF running LCC.
Please LCC start thinking about highrise parking buildings. This measure will have very little impact if any.
These slots will soon be taken over by pirate taxis and car dealers and nothing will have been resolved in as far as shortage of parking slots is concerned.
Best decision ever. These chaps set up businesses around the city and then take all the parking space in front of his shop for him and the family. What about the customers you dummies? Thank you LCC!
# 5 well said,great move Council,first come first serve.
Hmm, kwalibako nefyo pa zed?…yaku!
You see there are so many ways of LCC to generate income for improving the city but nobody seems to take the initiative. Can you imagine how many cars drive in and out of Lusaka city. Ask a mare parking guard in S.A how much they make by the end of the day. You will be shocked
ITS GOOD NEWS FOR MOTORISTS BUT IT WILL NOT HELP MUCH AS MOST OF THE MONEY THAT IS COLLECTED WILL ONLY END UP IN THE POCKETS OF THE PARKING ATTENDENTS AND THERE BOSSES .MANY OF THE STREET BOYS ARE ALSO MAKING MONEY OUT THE CAR PARKING SLOTS .THESE KAPONYA BOYS WILL CHARGE YOU AS LITTLE AS 500 KWACHAS UNLIKE THE COUNCIL CHAPS WHO CHARGES 1000 PER HOUR THATS IF THEY HAVENOT HIKED IT IN 2010.
CHI Pasa Ulemu N’ganga Iwe # 4, how dare you, you mention MC Sata even in your dreams?
LCC well done I have gotten frustrated everytime I am in Lusaka and need something in the CBD. Most front of shops and pharmacies are reserved parking for shop owners. Where do these BAD BUSINESS MEN/WOMEN expect their customers to park? There is more that you can do to raise money, continue making implementing initiatives.
# 5 well said.
But does anybody see a business possibility here? Under ground or those ma spiral parking garages?
This should be extended to all cities mwe.
very good move LCC…yeeepppp!!
#7 you are right on . LCC should embark on an ambitious programme and put a six storey parking on that stretch from Findeco house all the way down to the post office and half the problem of parking will be solved.
Some parking slots are around Cairo road are controlled by young men who have been collecting money for themselves. Just train them and make them to be council car park tax collectors. #16, Over time the university will built both underground & up building car parking
The parking attendants must just be a given a daily cashing target to meet and be allowed to use their medula oblangata on any excess amounts. After all they have families to look after from their meagre take-home pays!
Next thing city council shd do is raise parking fee to K50pin and rid town of all the free to air moto cars.
Implementation ba LCC. Please implement this to the letter.
Hell has frozen over. Is the PF controlled LCC actually working?? Anyway good development.
Yaha yaha.
its time zambia developed by having auto machines at carparks and some areas in town.for me i feel the rule the have brought will make pipo mark for along time doing nothing in town.but a machine will charge arccording to the minutes and hours one parks.the building of a big car park will also reduce on congetion like manda hill car park
I’m i the only person who thinks this is wrong. I know parking is hard in the CBD BUT where are the people who work there going to park? Imagine parking your car several blocks away from your office. I believe the LCC should do a thorough reveiew of the companies that need and have paid for the slots and then look at freeing up some space, not all! Anyway thats just my opinion.
Nice one LCC start thinking out of the box. Also encourage private participation where people can invest in constructing modern fee paying parking areas. Money is slipping through your fingers to these old street boys who took advantage of the porous situation.
Am surprised nobody is talking of leaving reserved parking only for the disabled.We give them a raw deal if they have to park far away from their intended building and even most pavements in Lusaka are not wheelchair accessible.Also leave areas for no parked cars at anytime exclussively for use by emergency vehicles.It would be foolish to see every parking slot in terms of money instead of lives saved especially in crowded areas in order to make emergency services efficient.
:d this is the best idea in 100 years that LCC will ever make
Excellent move LCC. Please include some time in your implementaion for educating the masses on the actual rules. We all need to be on the same page in order to follow the same path towards success. Please no kaponyas involved, only attendants or qualified designated pipo. Great move!!
was it there in the first place? Am only learning about it now. FISUSHI
Facilitate increase car parking at Farmers’s house..like one we have at Manda Hill.. We can do with a small fee shared between city council and Farmers house. I wonder how customers are not allowed to park at farmers house in the biggest location
Now we are moving forward bit by bit. My suggestion is that there should be no parking along Cairo Road. People backing out of the parking spots cause traffic delays unnecessarily. Credit card equipped meters must be installed and must be programmed for 30 minute time intervals up to a maximum of 8 hours. The credit cards to be used must be bought from the council and other resellers. The other suggestion I have is that the City council must seriously think of building fee parking structures around the city. As someone has already pointed out, this for sure is going to be a source of revenue for the council.
RECIPE FOR ANARCHY. Your office is at woodgate house. All slots taken up by cab drivers . Then were do you park. THINK BEFORE YOU COMMENT.
suntwe are you also sitongwani ol hyna, hehehe, i love yo name, it reminds me of sumthing.
Great development, glad there progressive minds at the council after all
well done………………
Companies should also consider procuring staff buses for their employees. It doesn’t make sense for every Jim and Jack in the company to park their cars in the little spaces that Lusaka has in the Central Business Area. This can also reduce on congestion in the city.
good, but for as long as the payment system for the slots is not automated, this is a none starter. those kaponyas will still harass us. Start thinking of automation!
I stopped doing bussines in cetral town long ago, better to get your stuff done in the periphery. They need to expand the town and road network, no other way about it.
That will only free a few parking slots as companies still owe the majorie chunk of parking slots in the city, for me it’s not a move worth celebrating as i will still be clumped tomorrow dahhh!
#29, you have good points. #40, automated payment system is the way to go to avoid misuse of funds. #34, do u mean bank credit card like visa or master card? not everyone with a car will have a bank credit card. i wouldn’t use my bank credit card to pay for car parking. what people need is some kind of cards like the talk time cards