Parking space a big challenge in commercial and residential areas

Parking space a big challenge in commercial and residential areas

By Majd Othman

KUWAIT: Finding a place to park has always been a challenge for tenants who live in densely-populated investment areas, but now the problem has reached residential and commercial areas, with no action taken towards it. Mariam Saeed, who lives in Hawally, told Kuwait Times her building doesn’t provide parking spaces for tenants, which causes her daily suffering searching for a nearby place to park.

“Because we park in any available place, our cars get damaged by the sun, especially during the summer. This costs us yearly to repair our cars, not to mention the random scratches,” she added. Most tenants have more than one car, and due to the lack of parking spaces in investment areas, some of them use their neighbors’ parking spaces, which increases conflicts between them. Ahmad Sameer, who lives in Farwaniya, said “in order to find a solution, our building haris held a draw to distribute the parking spaces among tenants, which gave us a temporary solution to the problem of parking violations by other tenants”.

Asmaa Hassan said she makes sure before renting an apartment that it has at least two parking spaces. “It is almost impossible to find two parking spaces in investment areas,”