00:00like the saying goes check yourself before you wreck yourself it's just about noon and already
00:11several motorists in the capital will force to shell out hundreds of dollars to retrieve
00:17their vehicles after being caught parking indiscriminately across port of Spain
00:22the active activity operation here this morning around 10 years thus so far we have wrecked 10 vehicles
00:28we want to urge the public to please utilize the parking facilities around the city
00:36there are plenty of parking facilities available within the city so they're going to go through this exercise
00:42and we're going to pay 500 hours to this in order to retrieve the vehicle
00:48port of spain mayor chinwa alane says the first phase of the program focused on west port of
00:54spain where impounded cars were taken to dock road but to expand the operation the south key
01:01impound lot located just opposite courts needed additional investment and preparation
01:07last financial year through our development program we use our resources
01:18to be able to build a police force here to support not just parking enforcement in the city of port of
01:24spain but also to support the deployment of officers from the city police or from the other national
01:30security agencies to be able to deploy from this space the mayor stresses this is not a cash grab system
01:37which many on social media claim but it is a necessary enforcement tool given the chaos caused by illegal
01:44parking we frequently get complaints from the ptsc that buses are stopped stopped on the street corners
01:51that they can pass we get complaints from the fire service that their appliances are not able to
01:56traverse the city just as we were making our way to this facility we witnessed an ambulance struggling to
02:03make its way across independent square north and the taxi drivers in particular have reached out to us by way of
02:09phone call by letter we have meetings with different taxi driver associations they are complaining that
02:15the taxi stands are being used as parking lots and they are not able to apply the trade city officials
02:21are urging workers and visitors to make use of the various paid parking facilities across port of spain
02:27we have in the past received correspondence from music court relative to the parking uh on richmond street
02:34uh and the indiscriminate parking that is happening in the city of the parking so that we are aware that as
02:40people park indiscriminately there are legal parking spaces available that we cannot make use of uh that is not
02:47necessarily the focus of our initiative the focus we need here is ensuring the safety and security of the
02:53motoring and traveling public in particular street quarters by hydrants pedestrian process but still
02:59the clampdown caught some off guard including this bank worker who parked in the wrong place i did park
03:07somewhere with a new parking sign initially but when i realized that i did move my car closer to my job
03:13because i thought it would have been safer but i guess not um so yeah i still get wrecked still here first
03:20christmas time who has actually 500 to just jump out to get back to their own car but i mean it is what
03:26it is right now with a newborn she says the inconvenience will definitely affect her routine
03:35try to reach early on gap better park i don't know i i did ask and they said if we can't find
03:41parking on the streets you have to utilize paid car parks but is that an option for you realistically no
03:48because these car boxes are not very pricey already lighting towers have been installed to ensure
03:54vehicles are properly secured at the impound lot for now only cash is accepted but by weeks and
04:02drivers will also be able to pay via links and a final warning for motorists this crackdown
04:09isn't just for the christmas season the operation will continue straight through to carnival
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