Amman municipality continues crackdown on unlicensed valet services

AMMAN — The Greater Amman Municipality has so far removed 30 kiosks providing illegal valet parking services to motorists under a campaign launched recently, a GAM official said on Tuesday. 

Mohammad Faouri, director of joint management at GAM, said the municipality will press on with the campaign, launched in cooperation with the Public Security Department (PSD) and the Traffic Department.

The campaign, he said, targets unlicensed entities that force motorists to use their valet parking services. 

“We will keep working to close down any illegal kiosk that provides such services,” Faouri told The Jordan Times over the phone. 

He noted that GAM’s campaign does not cover malls or restaurants that designate a specific area within their premises for valet parking services. Unlicensed valet service providers, in contrast, take up part of the main street to park cars or use a plot of land that they don’t own.  

Faouri previously told The Jordan Times that the municipality has announced a set of regulations for commercial establishments seeking to obtain a licence for valet parking service. Any establishment that wants to offer this service has to obtain insurance, own or rent a piece of land as a parking lot, and the employees have to wear a uniform with a badge. 

He called on motorists not to use unlicensed services, advising them to contact GAM or the PSD to complain against anyone who forces them to do so.