BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – THE Traffic Department of the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force is appealing to drivers not to park their vehicles between noon and 9:00 p.m. along the designated route for today’s (Jan. 3) Las lap.
This appeal comes in the wake of a number of vehicles that were towed away and impounded on Saturday after they were illegally parked on West Independence Square Street, Liverpool Row and the Bay Road in the vicinity of the Post Office.
According to a release from the Traffic Department stated, “These vehicles were parked in a manner calculated to impede the free passage of the Carnival Parade, hence the decision to have them removed”.
It also stated that some owners had quickly removed their vehicles on seeing the towing system in progress.
At about 11:50 on Saturday, SKNVibes was present when a Sergeant was walking through Liverpool Row in an effort to advise owners who had parked their vehicles along that thoroughfare to remove them before the arrival of the parade. However, only a few of them were present and adhered to his instructions.
Speaking with Head of the Traffic Department Inspector Cromwell Henry, he told this media house that the six vehicles were impounded in the compound of the Fire and Rescue Services in Basseterre, but at the end of the night the owners retrieved them upon payment of EC$150.
Henry noted that the EC$150 was not a fine imposed by the police for violating the law, but payment to the recovery truck’s owner for having towed the vehicles from where they were illegally parked.
He declared that a similar exercise would be carried out today and is appealing to drivers not to park their vehicles on Fort Street, Cayon Street between College Street and West Independence Square Street, Bay Road between Adlam Street and College Street, Lower College Street between the Bay Road and Liverpool Row, and Church Street.
