Since becoming a MPSJ councillor a year ago, one of my priorities has been to resolve parking issues, especially in Zone 3 (USJ2 to USJ15).

To date, with the cooperation of MPSJ's Engineering Department (which oversees the modification & creation of parking bays) and MPSJ Finance Department (which oversees car park payments, rates & ticketing), we have worked towards improving parking in the following areas:

1. Taipan - thru the creation of 1 hour parking policy, long term occupiers such as employees have begun to occupy the multi-storey car park, freeing the street level parking for customers on short visits. This is probably the first of its kind by any local government in Malaysia, and it took me months of persuasion to push it through.

2. USJ 2 commercial area. This is the shoplots near Petronas & Shell. We have put in a one way system on the outer road facing the shoplots, and with that created more parking bays. This has helped with traffic management especially during the lunch and supper crowd.

3. USJ4/6 commercial area - also introduced a one way system, creating enough bays to satisfy the needs.
The last "problematic" commercial area is USJ9, both the 9/5 area, where there is a big lack during office hours, and 9/3 area (Tanjung/Pizza Hut) during supper time.

After months of going back and forth, today MPSJ's Infrastructure committee approved creating parking bays in the back lane and side lanes for USJ9/5 area. This is a wonderful breakthrough, as once fully implemented, will create approximately 300 new parking bays.

Implementation should start early next month, and will move in stages. Many parts of the backlane roads are in poor condition, and needs resurfacing.

Another problem that needs to be tackled is illegal renovations and restaurant operations encroaching the backlanes. As the licensing and building control depts clear this, lane by lane, Engineering department will move in and create the parking bays.

After this, in the area of parking, the lack of parking at Goodyear Courts needs to be looked into, especially those at USJ14...