Permai Villa Residents Associa-tion chairman Mohd Razali Hamid said many of the apartment dwellers owned two cars and they usually parked outside the apartments.

“The main road is not very long and cars line the whole stretch and this has led some of the apartment dwellers to double park as a result,” he said.

He added that the cars completely blocked the view of the motorists leaving the apartments and this had resulted in vehicles being hit by on-coming cars.

Mohd Razali said the accidents though minor had caused residents a lot of money in repairs.

He urged the council to create parking bays for those who had more than one car or for visitors to park.

“Now, there are not enough bays inside so we have to offer the residents alternative parking bays which they have to use discriminately and not pose a threat to others,'' he said.

MPSJ councillor Awtar Singh, who is also the MPSJ Residents Committee zone chairman for the area, said the problem was not just at Permai Villa.

“There were similar reports from Pusat Bandar Puchong and Bandar Puteri as well.

He said he had proposed that the council build parking bays at the road shoulders that could be fitted with parking meters.

He added that if people continued to park haphazardly after the bays were constructed, the council could then tow the vehicles away or fine the vehicle owners.

Awtar Singh said he had also proposed that the council meet the apartment management committees to urge them to lower the charges for the second parking bay as some of them charged high fees.

However, he said the council had yet to act on any of the proposals despite the matter having been raised months ago.