During the past year, 2023, the Al-Ahsa Municipality Services Agency removed (730 abandoned and damaged vehicles) in squares, public parking lots, and roads, while it received about 690 requests from citizens to drop their damaged vehicle plates, benefiting from the corrective period approved by the General Traffic Department, which ends on March 1, 2024.
The official spokesman for the municipality, Khalid bin Muhammad Boushal, explained that the removal of neglected and damaged vehicles comes as an extension of the implementation of the initiative to address visual distortion and improve the urban landscape, and within the ongoing scheduling of comprehensive programs carried out by the municipality to raise the level of services in the city, stressing the importance of community awareness and the contribution of its members to preserving the environment. Among the elements of visual distortion and enhancing their role towards public cleanliness, in light of the municipality’s continued efforts to implement the goals of the Ministry of Municipal, Rural Affairs and Housing in removing elements of visual distortion and improving the urban landscape, in order to achieve the quality of life program.
It is noteworthy that the municipality, in integrated partnership with the Al-Ahsa Traffic Department, and in line with the objectives of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, seeking to automate procedures and organize work, and enhance the role of technology in developing and achieving the aspirations of digital transformation for all municipal services through an integrated electronic system, has re-engineered the procedures and administrative work in the service of removing damaged and abandoned vehicles. And including it within the digital municipality system with the aim of raising the quality and efficiency of service.