Egypt parliamentarian criticises expensive parking fees

The new regulation allows car owners to rent a place designated for their cars in front of their homes.

Member of Parliament’s culture and information committee, Amal Salama, called on the Ministry of Local Development to review the parking fees that were imposed on citizens in Cairo.

In a press statement, Salama criticized the large exaggeration in the fees announced by the Giza Governorate on car owners, stressing that the Ministry of Local Development, to which the streets are under its jurisdiction, did not achieve the goal of the (police law), which aims to protect citizens from bullying the politician and forcing car owners to pay excessive parking fees.

Salama explained that the law approved by the House of Representatives in the first legislative term aims to help achieve discipline in the Egyptian street in the capitals of major governorates.

A member of the Media Committee called on the Ministry of Local Development to abide by its commitments to evaluate practices and contracts and review the negatives of implementing the Law No. 150 of 2020 regulating parking in the streets and its executive regulations, and to correct errors, including holding those responsible for not implementing the recommendations of the Local Administration Committee to hold the necessary training courses before implementation.

Egypt implemented the car regulation law, the “valet law” in the streets in the governorates, after issuing its executive regulations, and Law No. 150 of 2020 gave the vehicle owner the right to rent a place designated for his cars in front of his home or shop for a monthly fee of 300 pounds.

The citizen applies to reserve a parking spot in front of his place of residence for the technological center in his neighborhood, then the request is presented to the traffic and the head of the neighborhood, the place is inspected and a sign is placed in the name of the citizen in the waiting place.

The law gave the right to pay the subscription on a monthly, annual, half or quarterly basis as desired, at the same monthly subscription price.

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