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kambwali
kambwali
8 years ago

Yet engineers are graduating yearly ku poly ndipo ali duuuuu kumalila nawo pagulupa

Ndinunkha
Ndinunkha
8 years ago

Parking management enforcement is very poor in Blantyre. The city has parking bays that are not being fully enforced or are being used for free. The private partnership should also look at ways of enforcing traffic movement, management and enforcement. Those that dont adhere to bylaws should be heavily fined and this should include impounding vehicles and owners again heavily fined. It happens in Lusaka, Johannesburg, Durban, and Harare that is what modern metropolis do. You cannot imagine that around the old Nandos complex in town we have a used vehicle market and yet authorities do nothing about it. How… Read more »

onachi
onachi
8 years ago

not only in Blantyre, here is Lilongwe we have to wait for a car to leave the Lilongwe Central Market to get a paid parking spot… Mind you this car park was created when the city had very few cars…. even the market is very small for the current population in Lilongwe… it seems our town planners have been caught slumbering

Sapitwa
Sapitwa
8 years ago

Blantyre was designed to accommodate not more than 500 cars at the time and nothing has been done to expand the city to accommodate the influx of dumping from Japan. The city could introduce control measures like : Introduction of buses for the working class only to use to go to work than by cars. Construct parking in the outskirts of the city and encourage people to use only designated taxis allowed in the inner city. Issue permits to allow number of cars to enter the city. Long term: Expand the city by relocating critical amenities away from the congested… Read more »

charlie hebdo
charlie hebdo
8 years ago

You haven’t mentioned about pedestrians. They walk and cross roads everywhere and anyhow. Now they are using car ways like they are magalimoto. There is chipwirikiti in Limbe. Now Kapenga in Limbe is a nightmare…minibuses own that piece of road.City council are lying… they are doing nothing to sort out this mess. Cry My Beloved Malawi. Thinking of relocating to Zambia

jj
jj
8 years ago

Btz central roads is exactly London type. The difference is that London has vry good public transport that many pipo never get their cars into twn. We contonue buying cars and even with more roads & car parks, that wont work in the coming 10 yrs. Unless we were talking of Jorburg like road network, then the way out is public transport. Else we are yet to become another nairobi in congestion in our cities

basa
basa
8 years ago

in your story, you have not mentioned car vendors who park their cars around Nandos area and Limbe post office parking space.

Chris
Chris
8 years ago

You must remove those car dealers who occupy parking spaces as a market for selling their second hand cars. They have to be relocated to other designated place rather than causing congestion in town. Because those spaces are designed mainly for shot stay not full day as it is now.

GONANI
GONANI
8 years ago

Please let us redesign Blantyre – making it look like Lilongwe. Lilongwe has wider roads,beautiful city views and plenty of space for expansion. On the other hand Blantyre looks very old fationed and ugly. Narrow streets engulfed by zimabwinja zokhazokha. What kind of city is that?

I think Lunzu is a good cite for better and well designed CBD, don’t you think!

Jabu
Jabu
8 years ago

Where are going to construct the multi storey car lot building,Mbayani?

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