How do you issue a summons to a car without a
licence plate? You can't.
So some
workshops in Sin Ming Industrial Estate have taken to removing the licence
plates on vehicles waiting to be serviced or repaired and leaving the vehicles
in a public carpark, it appears.
Even
the road tax discs which bear the vehicle's plate numbers have been removed
from the windscreen.
Residents
with season-parking coupons are angry that these "unlicensed"
vehicles have taken up spaces in their carpark, forcing them to either wait
longer for an empty space or to park further away from their home.
Residents
told The New Paper that the parking woes surfaced in the last one to two years.
Mr Ang
Eng Seng (right), 53, a plumber who lives in Block 25, Sin Ming Road, said it
was especially difficult to find parking between September last year and the Chinese
New Year festive period, when business was brisk at the workshops.
He said
he saw more cars being sent to the workshops to be spray-painted during that
time and sometimes more than 10 parking spaces would be taken up by such cars.
Some of the cars were parked overnight to let the paint dry.
The
situation has since improved slightly but he said sometimes he still needs to
wait up to 30 minutes if he wants to park directly under his block.
Otherwise,
he would have to park near Block 26, which is about 10 minutes' walk from his
flat. Said Mr Ang in Mandarin: "If they remove the vehicle licence plate,
it means that they are not paying road tax right? So they should be towed away.
"It's
not fair for those of us who buy season parking. What's the point of buying
season parking if I have to park so far away?"
Another
resident who wanted to be known only as Mr E Lee, 24, an undergraduate, said
that when he alerted HDB to the problem about six months ago, he saw some
officers in the carpark pasting towing notices on the vehicles.
But it
didn't solve the problem, he said, as those vehicles were simply moved away and
replaced by other vehicles from the workshops.
Said Mr
Lee: "On weekends, the cars are still there and it irks me.
"The
ones doing the enforcement are the carpark attendants, but when they see a car
without a licence plate, what can they do? They cannot possibly write down the
specifications of the vehicles on their devices."
Lediati
Tan
AsiaOne
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