Bulkan suspends city parking project

Following City Hall’s delay in acting on a direction that it suspend the controversial metered parking by-laws, Communities Minister Ronald Bulkan last evening announced that he had signed a new order to effect the suspension of the parking meter project for a period of three months, with effect from today, while government said that the police force would help to ensure that vehicles are not clamped. “This is a done deal and on the basis of this new Order, the Council would be clearly advised to inform the company [contractor Smart City Solutions] that paid parking would be suspended. The company would be invited to enter into negotiations and at that stage it would be up to the company to determine what its response to this new action of the Government would be,” Bulkan was quoted as saying last evening in one of two statements on the issue released by the Ministry of the Presidency.