HIBAPRESS – Mohammed Manfalouti
Citizens of Settat and visitors to the city who are drivers are finding it very difficult to park their vehicles, and some of them have become lost, searching for a place far from the clutches of tow trucks and falling into the trap of violations as a result of the lack of parking spaces and the spread of no-stopping signs.
On the level of Hassan II Street in Settat and the surrounding streets, drivers find it very difficult to park their cars, and some of them are forced to stop in unauthorized places, only to be surprised by their disappearance by being transferred to the municipal warehouse, even if the method of towing them by some of these tow truck drivers, which is often done randomly, may cause losses to some vehicles, which requires those in charge of managing local affairs to look for alternative solutions, and to speed up the establishment of other parking spaces to ease the pressure. Faced with this dilemma, Facebook activists demanded that local affairs managers look for solutions, such as working on expanding the space allocated for parking cars adjacent to the Moulay Ismail Secondary School on the level of Hassan II Street in parallel with reducing the area allocated to pedestrians, with the possibility of allowing stopping on the opposite side to ease the pressure on parking, while others demanded the establishment of underground parking, especially under the ground of Mohammed V Square in the city center. Many of those interested believe that no one disagrees that applying the law to violators of traffic rules, without exception, is in the nature of the correct and sound implementation of the contents of the constitution, which no one should bid on or protest against the good and proper implementation of it in the face of all types of violations, but the observation that must be dealt with, and so that drivers do not fall into the trap of illegal parking violations, is that the city of Settat is experiencing a terrible shortage of parking spaces, especially in front of public administrations, not to mention the spread of the phenomenon of occupying public property by the owners of some shops and stores who have become skilled at reserving even the places allocated to parking cars. After the security authorities in Settat took a series of legal measures to deter violators of the traffic law, by imposing penalties and issuing violation reports, which affected even those who were forced to stop in front of bank branches or in front of their public administrations as employees, many citizens, especially drivers, found themselves facing legal questioning with the payment of fines, all of this is happening in light of the shortage of parking spaces in the city compared to the volume of traffic it has come to know, add to that the increasing phenomenon of reculage to transport passengers and tracking them in the streets and at sensitive points, which in turn contributed to raising the level of obstruction of traffic, especially on the Royal Army Street.
