No streetlights in many bylanes complain DIP 2 residents, management responds

  • Date: 26-May-2023
  • Source: Gulf News
  • Sector:Real Estate
  • Country:UAE
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No streetlights in many bylanes complain DIP 2 residents, management responds

Dubai Investment Parks (DIP) has recently emerged as a clean and green community area, attractive to families for its residential buildings, community parks, schools, clinics, and other amenities. However, there is an important issue that people living and working in DIP Phase 2, a sub-community of DIP, seem to be facing – dimly lit streets and the lack of enough streetlights. When Gulf News received complaints regarding this issue, we went around DIP 2 to investigate and speak to tenants to find out more. We discovered that while there are some street lights dotting the main roads, there are many inner bylanes which lack any lights at all. Moreover, roundabouts are also not entirely lit. Katherine L. Domingo, a 42-year-old Filipina expatriate, told Gulf News: “Our family moved to DIP 2 in 2019. We chose this location because the rooms were spacious and everything was close by – a supermarket, a salon, a pharmacy, and the rents were affordable. I work in Jumeirah Lakes Towers and drive back every evening, it gets so dark on the streets, sometimes it’s hard to see people cross the roads. “After sundown, I also don’t send my children out to buy something from the