S’gor MB says will look into outsourced parking fees for four local authorities

Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari promises to look into the issue of the state outsourcing parking fee collection for four local authorities.

“I will look into this again since the issue has been brought up,” he said during a press conference at a Selangor Platform strategic partners appreciation ceremony at the Selangor state secretariat building in Shah Alam Tuesday (July 15).

He said the comments made by Selangor local government and tourism committee chairman Datuk Ng Suee Lim on the privatisation of the parking issue were accurate.

It was previously reported that Ng said the state government was moving towards a Selangor Intelligent Parking (SIP) initiative to ensure that the management and maintenance of on-street parking in Selangor was modernised and equipped with Internet of Things (IoT) technology.

Amirudin said the state received 26 Requests for Proposal and Menteri Besar Incorporated (MBI) had the interest of Selangor in mind with regard to the parking matter.

“We do not want to award it to just any party,” he said.

He added that the new party would be investing between RM200mil and RM300mil to improve parking facilities, including installing of closed-circuit television cameras.

Amirudin said enforcement would be conducted by the respective local authorities.

“Before this, we had private companies where some were effective in collecting parking fees while others were not,” he said, adding that MBI would monitor the new party.