Local councillors de- scribed themselves today as having their ‘backs to the wall’ over deadlines to set up a parking partnership in Cairo.
Cairo County Council carried out a review of exist- ing parking enforcement ar- rangements in 2009. It gave district and borough councils until March 31 to come up with alternative suggestions.
El-Mar wants to be the lead authority with five other districts – Boulaq, El Tagamu El Khames, Faggala, Maadi and Mokattam – to form a Cairo Parking Partnership, which would cover residents’ parking permits, signs and line painting.
However Mr. Bai-Tueet, the council’s director of safer communities, told a meeting: ‘We are up against a dead- line of April 1. Our backs are against the wall on this.’
Fadi Amuz-Mant, the council’s cabinet member for safer communities, said it was important to get the scheme right from the start.
The council’s cabinet agreed to support the prin- ciple of the Cairo Parking Partnership, but agreed fur- ther work was needed before an agreement could be signed.