60+ additional parking spaces coming to TPP in time for Xmas
Management at the Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park (TPP) are creating an additional 60 parking spaces to accommodate more visitors to the multimillion-dollar facility as the festive season and cruise ship arrivals gear up.
According to TPP’s Chief Executive Officer, Vance Lewis, there have been complaints over the years about the lack of adequate parking spaces at the pier park and he and his team have sought to address that with the new parking lot expected to be ready soon.
“You know because Christmas is coming up, we are actually stepping things up a notch. We are in the process of ensuring that we have enhanced parking. Enhanced parking means we have additional parking opportunities. One of the perennial complaints that we have had in the pier park is that parking is limited. So, right at the entrance, there is a spot being cleared, rolled and paved and it’s going to be marked to provide some 60 additional parking spots,” Lewis said.
“Then we will actually open the gate to allow people to come straight into the pier park. So, you are going to be literally one step from the pier park. That’s in addition to the parking that we have within the facilities at the moment,” the CEO added.
Lewis noted that the festive season, which features the TPP’s annual Three-Days of Christmas event, means there will be a greater influx of customers in the park. He said this means more and safer parking is needed to make park users comfortable while they shop and enjoy themselves.
The CEO added that the reopening of the cruise ship has also resulted in increased activity in the pier park which also requires additional parking spaces for taxi operators; hence why the area is being readied in time for Christmas.
Lewis is hoping the parking lot will be ready to house vehicles this coming week as the postponed Three-Days of Christmas Celebration kicks off on Tuesday.
The event, which was scheduled to run from last Thursday, December 16 to Saturday, December 18 was postponed because of inclement weather.
However, according to the management, everything should go ahead as planned on December 21.
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make space in the hospital same way
Thank you. I need a place for my boat.
Thanks! I need a place for my trucks too
1) Require the persons who are employed in the TPP to park their vehicles outside the gates of the TPP and NOT in the parking spaces adjacent to their respective employer’s business. Visitors should be able to park adjacent to the TPP’s various businesses.
2) Paint parking lines on the pavement of the new parking lot
3) During business hours have a tow truck on stand by to remove parked vehicles that inconsiderately block correctly parked vehicles.
The workers take up all the parking and customers have to park down the road. All workers should be required to park outside. Why do you continue to ask customer to park outside whenever a ship is in. So we are not customers when the ships are in?
Can never park inside because all the business owners and staff taking up all the spaces.
The design of the parking lot is a joke – big waste of space.
Outside the pier park is a mud pit
and whatever suggested parking spots they have marked are a miracle to me, can’t figure out what is going on there.