The Municipality of Sharjah City has carried out continuous inspection campaigns to monitor all distortions of the general appearance and all negative practices in all areas of the city of Sharjah to ensure the provision of an ideal environment in line with the visions and orientations of the Emirate and ensure the comfort of residents and visitors. A number of residents stopped their vehicles inside the closed dirt yards through boarding and entering the sidewalks. This phenomenon spread recently and immediately the municipality started taking the necessary measures and distributing awareness leaflets to all the vehicles. To sensitize the owners of the need not to repeat these actions because of their negative effects.
Ali Ahmed Abu Ghaziz, Director of Public Parking Department at Sharjah Municipality, explained that a campaign was organized to prevent parking in closed dirt yards where some owners of vehicles, especially high or four-wheel drive vehicles, climb on the sidewalk and park the vehicle inside the yard. Conducting a study of the yards, and ensuring the availability of adequate regular parking in the areas, whether subject to fees or in the investment yards. Accordingly, parking was prevented in these yards after following a series of alert procedures in the targeted locations and distribution of leaflets to the boat. Stalled for a whole week at different periods of the day.
Abu Ghazizin pointed out that these behaviors have negative effects such as the destruction of sidewalks as a result of the ascent and continued descent and the destruction of public property. As well as monitoring a number of vehicles that have been destroyed in these yards and the storage of prohibited materials, this phenomenon has also led to an increase in the number of complaints as a result of parking vehicles behind other vehicles, which impedes the movement of traffic in these yards and disrupt the movement of residents to their destinations.
The Sharjah Municipality called on customers to stop their vehicles in the regular parking available in the emirate and not to stop in such prohibited sites to avoid violations.