Municipal teams step up efforts to remove abandoned vehicles

More than 800 vehicles were found to be illegally abandoned on the streets across Manama in the first four months of the year, it has emerged.   

Special teams assigned by the municipal authorities carried out an inspection, which found 812 abandoned vehicles at various locations in the capital. The Capital Municipality has been engaging in a campaign to tackle violations with regard to abandoned vehicles on the streets.

According to statistics obtained from the municipality, 812 notices were issued to violating vehicle owners. “Of the 812, 521 vehicles were removed by the owners in response to the notice while the remaining are at risk of losing their vehicles,” municipal authority sources said.

“Until now, 64 percent of vehicle owners have responded. Forty-five cars were offered for sale in public bidding. Sixty-five vehicles were removed by the municipality while the remaining would be removed soon,” the sources added.

Meanwhile, the municipal authorities also removed over 1,000 advertisements that were posted on public walls in the capital in the first two months of the current year. Head of the Capital Municipal Council, Shawkiya Ibrahim Humaidan, said 1,020 advertisements were removed during the months of January and February.