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If you want to take stock of the Nanyang Urban Complex, Xinhua City Square can't get around the coordinate origin.
Completed and delivered on the eve of New Year's Day in 2010, the complex was formerly the indelible urban memory of generations of Nanyang people - Xinhua Mall, and Nanyang people still have an inextricable emotional connection to it.
In fact, it also lived up to expectations, and in the period after its opening, with the earliest Oscar Cinema in Nanyang, Dennis Department Store, and the indoor pedestrian street upgraded from the old Xinhua Mall, it attracted a large number of the most fashionable young people at that time.
The most surprising thing is that after the upgrade from Xinhua Mall to Xinhua City Square, a large square covering an area of 3.2 hectares has been opened, with greenery and fountains.
For a long time, it has also become the preferred venue for various large-scale events in Nanyang.
Street dance flash mobs on Xinhua City Square
Smart Drill TV Dance Contest in the square
Supergirl 20 tour on the square
Nightly shows in the square
In previous years, Xinhua City Square was mentioned, which can be called the commercial pride of Nanyang and the fashion punch card in the minds of young people.
However, in recent years, with the rise of emerging complexes such as Xintian 360 Plaza and Jianye Triumph Plaza, the aura of Xinhua City Square has gradually dimmed.
It has to be mentioned that the original open and spacious large square has now become a dense and large parking lot.
Therefore, netizens joked that Xinhua City Square became "Xinhua Parking Plaza".
This phenomenon has been going on for several years, so that people seem to have slowly forgotten that Xinhua City Square was once really a veritable "square", open and stretched in this city.
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In fact, this strange phenomenon is not unique to Xinhua City Square.
At present, Nanyang City, but all the vacant land, most of which is covered by various vehicles, not to mention the wide and wide squares (except for the iconic municipal squares that cannot be entered, such as Tahrir Square).
Another cultural palace square, which is well known to Nanyang people, has also been quietly transformed into a "cultural palace parking lot" for many years.
If you have to find the reason from the source, there are no more than three words:
Parking was difficult.
Take Xinhua City Plaza, for example, although the popularity is not as good as before, the difficulty index of parking has increased by more than one level compared with before. Although there was originally an underground parking lot of 14,000 square meters with a total of 553 parking spaces, it is far behind the times today.
If you go to Xinhua City Plaza on weekends and holidays, you must have had the experience of looking for a parking space everywhere, or waiting in line at the entrance of the parking lot.
Parking difficulties are not exclusive to Nanyang. Any public place in any city, hospitals, shopping malls, schools, office halls, public venues... Such images are commonplace.
As far as Nanyang is concerned, the parking difficulty has also caused a relatively special, but very common phenomenon, that is, parking arbitrarily charged or charged irregularly.
When colleagues stopped their electric vehicles on the Roadway of Xinhua City Square last year and asked for invoices from toll collectors, they were pushed and insulted by the other party for no reason. After leaving a message on the leader's message board, the reply you get is as follows.
The content of the reply said that the parking charges around Xinhua City Plaza belong to the category of "legal operation and legal taxation". However, in fact, no invoice is provided. It's a bit puzzling.
If the square becomes a parking lot, it is more or less reasonable. So how can the uncles and aunts who charge fees on the teeth of major hospitals and business circles be so righteous and fearless, which has almost become an unsolved mystery that has plagued the people of Nanyang for many years, so that some citizens jokingly called "I owe my mother a dollar".
Just opposite Xinhua City Square, at the gate of Gangda, the author has experienced a similar scene.
On the road teeth at the entrance of the Gangda store, there are obviously eye-catching non-motorized public parking spaces, yes, it is the kind of road that is uniformly marked on the road teeth of each city road, standardized and convenient.
It is not good to make it here, a bully who charges the old man was rejected by the author, dragged the author's tram not to let go, the author asked for an invoice or show the voucher of the legitimate charge, he could not take it out, asked urgently, horizontal and vertical is a sentence:
"Everyone else has paid, why don't you pay when you are young"?
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Few parking spaces, parking difficulties, squares become parking lots, "I owe big mom a dollar"... These have become a series of public problems that Nanyang cannot avoid in the process of civilized city.
There is no way to get around it, only to face it. At this time, in addition to the need to improve the quality and consciousness of the citizens themselves, the supporting management of relevant departments is probably more important and more effective.
Urban public facilities such as parking spaces, a certain degree of lag is also normal, after all, in the rapid pace of the times, no one can accurately predict tomorrow's situation, the difficulty coefficient of preparing for the rain is higher, but it is not too late to make up for it.
Citizens with a heart must also find that since last year, there have been many more convenient parking spaces on the street (whether motorized or non-motorized), which has greatly alleviated the parking difficulties of citizens.
In crowded public places, the relevant departments have also determined that a number of free parking spaces will be added in due course, and the plan to add 4 new public underground parking lots is also being accelerated. The special governance of key areas with prominent parking problems has finally been put on the agenda.
Soon after, the uncles and aunts who treat the road as their backyard to collect parking fees are likely to be disbanded on the spot and go home to enjoy their old age.
Many times, we unconditionally love a city, not because of how high its GDP is, how dense its high-rise buildings are, and not just because it is our hometown.
It is because we can see that it continues to improve in all aspects, and can continue to surprise and comfort us - just like the Nanyang in the past two years.
Back to the issue of parking. Compared with the expedient measure of turning the square into a parking lot, the urban chaos such as "I owe my mother a dollar" is really a moment of incurability.
In fact, in the face of parking problems, the city has begun to move, once moved, even the thorny problems will be gradually solved.
Let the square return to the square, Daoya do back to Daoya, and all the public areas in Nanyang really return to the side of every citizen, the author believes that it will not be too long.