Time to act against illegal parking

 

A YELLOW sticker will be stuck on cars parked illegally on pavements and in spaces designated for disabled drivers on Saturday as a new group tries to highlight drivers’ shameful act.

“We decided that we want to make people aware,” said a member and of Cyprus Act, which is organising the campaign, adding that they want it to be a continuous effort “until people become aware, if they do.”

Cyprus Act is currently made up of about four people who want to take action on issues that concern them, “problems we face in everyday life that nobody does anything about.” The idea was inspired by a similar group in Athens.

“We’re an open society and we would like to tackle new ideas,” the ACT member said.

The group will begin their work by meeting between 11am and 11.30am this Saturday to strike out against illegally parked cars in Nicosia’s Jumbo toy store car park, where cars are regularly found in the disabled spaces right in front of the store. The group will be working with the Cyprus Social Ecology Movement.

So far the group’s Facebook page has managed to attract around 80 “likes” along with plenty of comments, and the founder is hoping that at least some of these people will join them on Saturday.

The group is not just concerned with illegal parking but also with other issues such as the environment.

 

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