Garages taking over roadways, making driving difficult!

[supercharged turbo]

Saw a video this morning of some scrapyard down Princes Town on fire..cars parked all over the road...ppl in the area probably fedup or somebody get bad parts with no refund

[FrankChag]

for you its garages
for me its sealands and containers (though not always, but when it bad, it bad)

for some of my fam in the east, its literal trucks parkup on the road overnight.

another friend of mine, its the nighbour cow that frequently in the road

lawlessness all over.

[pugboy]

they saying the child bully grandpa
the infamous scrapyard king

Saw a video this morning of some scrapyard down Princes Town on fire..cars parked all over the road...ppl in the area probably fedup or somebody get bad parts with no refund

[bluefete]

Everybody hadda eat.
As much as I’m inconvenienced by it, I won’t try to take a honest man’s bread and butter from him. As long as they’re not absolute BUGWAANAAS, we can figure out a way to coexist.

If you’re at the breaking point for some reason, talk to your councillor and possibly TCPD

And this is why we are a banana republic.

The honest man has to operate within the law. Making excuses otherwise makes him/her a lawbreaker just like any other.

The problem is that our systems encourage this foolishness to happen, instead of enforcing the relevant laws to keep the honest man honest.

I’m inconvenienced daily, but I’m trying to wrap my head around this….

What law is being broken? We’re referring to street parking specifically here, right? Which is the inconvenience most of us face. Unless there’s explicit no parking signs it’s a free for all. Unless they’re blocking your gate, the road is free to use, not so?

The issue is the lack of law then. Get the MOWT or the corporations to designate no parking zones, put signage and actually enforce it.
They’ve been doing this in urban areas. Parking violations are towed at owner’s expense.

So what you are saying is that anyone can take a derelict vehicle and put it on any roadside anywhere, and never go back to claim it and that is fine. So the people in the back of Grand Bazaar who have derelict cars on either side of the road are well within the law?

[VexXx Dogg]

Everybody hadda eat.
As much as I’m inconvenienced by it, I won’t try to take a honest man’s bread and butter from him. As long as they’re not absolute BUGWAANAAS, we can figure out a way to coexist.

If you’re at the breaking point for some reason, talk to your councillor and possibly TCPD

And this is why we are a banana republic.

The honest man has to operate within the law. Making excuses otherwise makes him/her a lawbreaker just like any other.

The problem is that our systems encourage this foolishness to happen, instead of enforcing the relevant laws to keep the honest man honest.

I’m inconvenienced daily, but I’m trying to wrap my head around this….

What law is being broken? We’re referring to street parking specifically here, right? Which is the inconvenience most of us face. Unless there’s explicit no parking signs it’s a free for all. Unless they’re blocking your gate, the road is free to use, not so?

The issue is the lack of law then. Get the MOWT or the corporations to designate no parking zones, put signage and actually enforce it.
They’ve been doing this in urban areas. Parking violations are towed at owner’s expense.

So what you are saying is that anyone can take a derelict vehicle and put it on any roadside anywhere, and never go back to claim it and that is fine. So the people in the back of Grand Bazaar who have derelict cars on either side of the road are well within the law?

Nope read the other comment I posted after.

[trinigamer]

The regional corporation might be able remove derelict iirc.

On another note, if I see a mechanic with a set of old cars park outside gathering dust. I take it that he can't or won't fix them because he takes on too many cars. Best to avoid them.

[timelapse]

The rubbish owner is none other than the infamous Neck who is alleged to deal in 'borrowed ' car parts since I was a child.His son owns a Casino as well as other businesses in the area. That place is a dump,it was only a matter of time before a bush fire got to it.

[h1tach1]

So...one of the topics that is actually triggering for me.

First to answer the question about the Regional Corporation removing the derelict vehicle. When the RC was contacted, the feedback was that once the vehicle has a number plate on it, they cannot move it. I have seen it happen for years. A vehicle rotting away and it just remains on the road as a hazard and eyesore. In areas where they is limited parking is goes beyond being an annoyance. If anyone has information to the contrary, please share it.

There is a garage by a main road but no parking except for the vehicles that are being worked on. So on one side of the road there are about four to five cars. Traffic has to alternate on one lane of the road because of this. One night I am passing in front of the the garage. A man from the garage come out in the road to block my car, so a car that is higher up on the road can drive into the garage. While this is happening traffic is backing up behind and in front of me.

After the car enters the garage, they try to get the car facing me to back up a little so my lane can pass. The woman refused to move (I do not fully blame her). So finally the man that originally stopped me, threw his hands in the air and said he give up. He went back to the garage. So for like five minutes or so, nobody is moving. I was angry. And there is no one to call because, you know. Finally the owner of the garage comes out and moves another vehicle that he has parked on the side of the road, a little more off the road, so that I could squeeze through. Keep in mind this man built his garage on squatting land (private).

Another mechanic, doing working out of his home. But like some of you have mentioned, he takes on more cars than he can handle. So the cars are parked on the road for months. Plus he owns multiple cars so they all cannot fit in his yard. It inconveniences the residents, but he does not care. It almost came to a fight in one instance. So now people are parking any way they can even if it means inconveniencing others.

As for the argument that people are just trying to make an honest living. It is not an honest living if you have to break the law to do it.

It all needs to be reigned in. The garage thing as well as other law breaking is happening all over.

In Chaguanas, they are vending on both sides of the pavement, so pedestrians only have about a square foot of space to walk. And if you can't fit, you have to walk in the road.
In Sangre Grande, they are on both sides of the road.
In POS, vendors have now built tents on the road. I guess the pavement was not enough for them. Stores are using their personal cones to block off parking spaces on the road. One store actually using a TTPS no-parking sign. Parking is still a free-for-all.
In Sea Lots, residents have built either homes or shops on the pavement.
In Beetham, they are building houses on the wall that the government had built as a separator.
In Maraval, just after the MP's office on the main road, they started squatting on government land. It is so close to the river, it might be the road reserve. Nothing was ever done about it. It causes terrible traffic. Now people are building on the other side of the road. On that same road, a vendor has his parked vehicle in the turning lane and is selling from there. TTPS buying from the vendor like normal.
The vendors on the highways were always a hazard and the increase in their numbers just makes it worse.
The squeegee hustle is in no way legitimate. It is a straight up intimidation game.

We have to get rid of this "bligh" mentality. The law cannot be only for some of us.
The people in power have to do their jobs. They are seeing the same things we are but why are they not doing anything about it and why are they not being held accountable?

[zoom rader]

U think raj & larry can do that sĥìť in westmornings

[PariaMan]

Interesting take in Japan

[Dizzy28]

Interesting take in JapanScreenshot_20241113_071836_Chrome.jpg

Japan is a high trust society, they can implement those type of laws easily
here you would need constant police/traffic warden presence

[MG Man]

We have to get rid of this "bligh" mentality. The law cannot be only for some of us.

age-old strategy for buying votes

[zoom rader]

Interesting take in JapanScreenshot_20241113_071836_Chrome.jpg

Japan is a high trust society, they can implement those type of laws easily
here you would need constant police/traffic warden presence

Very high trust.

I remember once I saw an open minimart with produce but no casher. Later from my Japanese friend she told me u take want you want and place the money in the bin provided.

Plus they are a cash society.

[android79]

I does always say is the mind set of the people have 75% to do with how Trinidad and Tobago how is today. We are experts at justifying law breaking. We are the most lawless in the Caribbean. Quite a few people I have heard express the view that nothing wrong with a man turning the public road into a garage, don't mine he could only work on one at a time but he take ten and park them on the road. Also a PH taxi(which is illegal) will watch you straight in face and tell you he making and honest dollar whilst breaking the law. Everything could slide as long as is in the name of "eating ah food". And these same people when the go away the comply with everything. And Governments letting it continue till a next female turn victim and there is a public uproar. So let the stupidness continue!