Finally found a parking space only to find that it’s a reserved parking bay? Those “DBKL Sewa” parking bays are legally tenanted from the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL), but they are not supposed to be blocked 24/7 and there are designated hours.
According to the council’s economic planning and development department director Azmi Abdul Hamid, the bays are only rented to businesses from 7.30am to 6pm from Mondays to Saturdays. “After 6pm daily, Sundays and public holidays the bays are open to the public,” he told Malay Mail.
The DBKL man said that there have been many complaints received from the public about the reserved bays with red lines locked with a pole beyond the time frame. He added that as a start, all car park tenants will be sent a notice to remind them of the valid times as this was not enforced before. After a warning, the next step will be to not renew their tenancy, which is due every three months.
“There will never be enough parking and the idea is to not create more available parking so people will take public transport. But for this, we have to ensure there is fair enforcement,” he said.
There are a total of 3,883 parking bays leased out for RM400 per month in the central business district, while bays outside the city centre are to let for RM215 to RM240. Azmi said many reserved parking bay tenants complain that if they don’t block the bays after business hours, the reserved bays will be occupied the following day. “We have a few times got the tow trucks to tow the vehicles away. But they have to adhere to the law, it’s for official operating hours only,” he stressed.
As for business owners who block parking bays for their own use without applying from DBKL, they will face enforcement. “The enforcement team has disposed of all sorts of items like car tyres, bins, broken furniture that were used to block the parking bays but it is back to square one days later,” he said, adding that several business owners have been fined RM500 for obstruction.
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I go Bangsar all the ulat rizab the bays. DBKL and Polis got no balls to halau them.
They ask RM5 and some RM10. Once I did not pay, they scratched my car teruk teruk.
So much for PDRM and DBKL
Many illegal keropok & burger stalls operate on KL parking bays and pedestrian walkways..
In Damansara Utama, MBPJ officers to scared to sound the workshops who put tayar and cones to reserve up to even 5 bays each. This is day time somemore. Bays are not even reserved. Yellow box mah
Last time I complained, MBPJ officer just smile and say cannot do anything
then lunch time, I saw MBPJ officer having makan with the car workshop owner and laughing away happily
Of cuz got no balls. Its reserved by them.
Park at yellow box parking lots, or theres plenty besides the BHP/ TOMS/ SHELL, or the rows of parking at Lorong Maarof or Jalan Telawi up to Jalan Terasek or go to Lucky Gardens, or behind the mosque (but sometimes they do pasar malam there), or multistorey parkings at BV1&2 and Jolly Green, or infront of closed showrooms facing main road. As a commercial area, Bangsar has ample parking spaces if u dun lazy to walk. Stop whining and exercise instead.
Yellow box also ulat reserved. So what to do? Polis and DBKL so scared to touch the ulat.
By the way, did you read the article? Reserved parking is only for business hours.
Hahaha. Sorry to burst ur fake news bub, but those places I mentioned got no ulats except ur kind.
Oh, and “Reserved parking is only for business hours.”
Have u even been to Bangsar dude? Do u even know what business hours means at here?
Does it matter what’s the business hour at Bangsar? Read the article please … “from 7.30am to 6pm from Mondays to Saturdays.” irrespective of how you define your business hour.
see who are the DBKL workers and PDRM workers. You will understand why
U picked the wrong place when u quoting Bangsar dude. Its my ‘hood yo. No messing with my ‘hood.
Pantai Dalam aka bangsar south..
Marketing gimmick. Check the address and its still Kampung Kerinchi. Im a true blue Bangsarian.
Go pick somewhere else far like Georgetown.
Ulat rizab supporters detected…
Try parking in front of Ken TTDI. Those “Valet Parking” gangsters from Ken will claim the public road belongs to them, must pay them parking fee.
More like a “Private parking” then..
Really good seeing those ppl abused the oku parking being tow’ed, now those double parkers should be expected next, their convenience in the expense of others’, bloody fools.
For those abusers who wanted to save parking fee then stay at home, use the public transports with some walks. You’ll save alot n burn your fats stucked in the brain.
I bypass this problem completely by not driving into KL at all and choose to drive to more parking-friendly spots in urban Selangor. The only time I’m in KL is via MRT/LRT or merely cutting through to get to other states. Besides, there is hardly a reason for me to go to KL anyway because I can get things done elsewhere or online. Luckily I dont live and work in expensive KL.
Public transport > All
Oug pasar area, some shops expanding their business until a few parking bays are taken…pls do something
one word to all of us – uber.
Poor infrastructure planning , over development , short term thinking etc led to all this….no foresight
go to hartamas and you can see those jaga kereta boys asking for money for those who park at public places. police and dbkl dare not stop the extortion.
kalau siap dikunci, bermangga bagai how? dbkl can unlock?
My view is to go, where possible, online/digital.
All over at Klang Valley mamak restoran/other restoran use parking bay as makan place. Dah lah ppl wan Park no parking. Pls stop them mis use tis parking bay.
all said, shop owners are still blocking the bays on evenings and sundays, is this all talk? or some actions will be taken?
Same la with those ulat at front of APW. Gangsters valet snatched couple of public parking bays for their valet parkings..wtf
where to complain those who offense the rules?
How about mpsj what is the rules
Nie dbkl jgn buat buta jer…..Di tengkat tong shin skrg Sudah ramai ulat parking…..bila Tanya mereka kata Sudah bayar pow dgn pegawai dbkl Dan polis…..harap pihak bertanggungjawab dpt selesai Kan hal nie….
How do i complain about ppl parking in my reserved parking during my working hours? i run an animal clinic with a lot of elderly clients and elderly patients who cannot walk and need to be carried. Especially with big dogs, this is very problematic.
The article is actually incorrect. I have private parking. My contract states for the duration of my working hours. Perhaps its different for clinics, im not sure. But i double checked with DBKL and confirmed it.