Green light for new car park

By MOHAMMED AL A'ALI
A NEW mutli-storey car park building could be built soon at the Manama suq, it was announced.
The Manama Municipal Council gave its initial approval for the project at Al Fadhel neighbourhood to offer people visiting the heavily traffic congested area more parking spaces.
The new building, which could accommodate hundreds of cars, will be located opposite Al Fadhel Mosque.
"The project, which has been initiated by the Sunni Waqf (Endow-ment) Direc-torate, is something we believe would help create more parking areas for visitors to the suq," said council technical affairs committee chairman Sadiq Rahma.
"Whether the directorate decides to rent the building to companies and establishments in the suq or into park meters is something up to them, but it would be certainly better than parking on the pavement or blocking the road.
"The suq has been facing this problem for a long time, because of the expansion of businesses and offices there, without parking areas being taken into consideration.
"We have inspected the place and found it to be convenient for the project.
"It has not been decided how many storeys the building would have and it would be up to the municipality's engineers to decide about its height."
Mr Rahma called on other investors to carry out similar projects in view of the areas need for more car park areas.