Old vehicles taking up parking bays in Sime UEP industrial area

“Finding a place to park used to be easier before but lately things have got out of control with more used cars being dumped here,” said Lim. These workshops, he said, would take up several parking lots each, resulting in a shortage of parking space for office workers.

“Sometimes we have to park a few blocks away from our offices,” he said, adding that the whole area was in a mess.

To make matters worse, a fleet of abandoned executive taxis has been left parked at a back lane off Jalan TP7/7.

The taxis are blocking the road, almost entirely.

A check on these abandoned taxis revealed that most of them had expired road tax on their windscreens while only a handful were actually left there for repair works.

Lim said the taxis had been in the area for close to 10 years. However, recently more taxis have been spotted at the site.

Lim said these taxis were parked at the back lanes because the area was empty and spacious.

“It used to be just one row but now they have double and triple parked the cars there. Sometimes we cannot even drive through the backlanes,” said Melvin Yap, who also works in the area.

Complaints have been made to the Subang Jaya Municipal Council, which conducted checks on several occasions but no concrete action has been taken as yet.

When contacted, MPSJ councillor Keshminder Singh, who is in charge of the zone, said MPSJ had taken action against the workshop operators in the past and might need to do so again.

“Each time we summon them, they will lie low for a while but the problem will resurface soon after,” he said.

Keshminder said the area was between Shah Alam and Subang Jaya, hence these operators often move locations.

“When one council takes action against them, they move to another location to escape the summons,” he said, adding that he would look into the possibility of asking the enforcement department to tow the vehicles away if the problem continued.