December 24, 2013

The enforcement of parking regulations in Tecom has been postponed. Fines were due to be issued to those parking off-street, such as on sandy areas, without a permit from Sunday. The affected areas are Knowledge Village, Media City and Internet City. “Tecom is currently rezoning the area, which has forced us to postpone implementation of

They’re out there somewhere – misunderstood men in teal with little machines that push out expensive bits of paper to be tucked under your windscreen wipers. But now the officers of Mawaqif have a message for the people of Abu Dhabi: trust us, we don’t want to fine you. The Department of Transport’s parking scheme

Drivers will be able to park in any bay in their neighborhood at any time without paying additional charges when they buy a resident parking permit from Mawaqif. However, a parking permit does not allow the customer to park in the premium parking area and does not entitle them to reserve a bay. The permits,

Abu Dhabi is getting ready to build five multi-storey car parks in the most populated areas across the city in a bid to solve its long-standing problem of parking space shortage. The car parks are to be set up on top of already existing parking spaces. However, they will be built as makeshifts, so they

A Dh100 million underground parking facility was opened in Al Ain yesterday which it is hoped will ease residents’ traffic woes. The 9,000 square metre multi-storey Mawaqif building, which took 18 months to build, has 424 parking bays and is located on Zayed Bin Sultan Street, close to the city’s key cultural and historic attractions,

The paid parking system that brought order to Abu Dhabi’s streets is coming to Al Ain. Work on painting Mawaqif bays has already begun and parking inspectors will assess where more are needed. Heavily congested areas will be targeted first and the scheme will be extended to key commercial, social and cultural areas. Parking will

The steady expansion of Mawaqif, Abu Dhabi’s parking-control system, has brought many benefits to the capital. But not everyone is cheering, as regular readers of our Letters to the editor feature will have noted. Much of the densely-populated Tourist Club area has just been brought under the purview of Mawaqif, and the howls of complaint

Tired of driving around in circles looking for a parking spot? A last resort for some residents is a sandy area in one of the capital’s busiest commercial and residential districts. Dozens of sport utility vehicles, company vans and smaller saloon cars line both sides of an unpaved plot in front of the Lulu Centre

Today marks the second anniversary of “Fog Tuesday”, when the country’s worst traffic accident in its history occurred on the Sheikh Zayed Road near Ghantoot. Eight people were killed, 280 injured and hundreds of cars were damaged or written off. Everybody agreed that this must never happen again. The anniversary was marked yesterday with a

One man died and hundreds were injured in road accidents yesterday as thick early morning fog blanketed the country. Police are warning drivers to take extra care as more dense fog is expected in the early morning and late evenings on Tuesday and Wednesday. In Ras Al Khaimah an Arab man, 34, died instantly when