Deadline extended for government to regulate parking laws

CAIRO – 21 September 2017: The head of the local administration committee in the House of Representatives, Ahmed al-Sejaini, approved the request of Hamdi Al-Gazzar, Secretary-General of the committee, on Thursday, to extend the deadline for the government to respond to the draft law regulating the parking areas and the parking facilities.

The local administration committee called on the government to provide it with detailed data on the number of official and non-official taxi parking lots in all governorates in the state.

During the meeting of the local administration committee, Al-Gazzar stated that the government endeavors to organize parking areas and to regulate car policies, in all governorates.

He stated that the government requested extending the time to 30 days to respond to the draft law submitted by deputies and to finish preparing a bill to be submitted to the Committee.

Al-Gazzar also stated that they will work to legalize the status of parking attendants and will instate aggravated punishments for whoever violates the new law. They will also solve the issue of unemployment and work to protect society from bullying by some of those working in this business.

Seeing taxis park is a waste of public money, Al-Gazzar said, adding that, "the truth of the matter is that they are harmful to the states hence the need to issue a law regulating them," Al-Gazzar added.

This law came at the request of MP Mohammed al-Husseini, a member of the local administration committee, who said: "We want a detailed statement of the number of parking lots in 27 governorates and the revenues and expenses of each. There are millions of pounds wasted on them especially that there are many informal parks everywhere."