Call for more checks on delivery motorbikes and residential restaurants

TDT | Manama

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Stricter checks on motorcycle food-delivery riders and a clampdown on restaurants popping up inside housing districts are being urged after residents in Muharraq complained of noise, risky riding and blocked streets.

MP Mohammed Al Olaiwi said some riders on restaurant runs are unsettling people in residential areas and, at times, causing hold-ups on the roads.

He pointed to narrow back streets in towns and villages as the places hardest hit, saying fast riding there can endanger residents, especially children and the elderly.

Motorbike patrols

The lawmaker called on the Interior Ministry to bring back motorbike patrols by traffic police inside housing areas. That street-level watch, he said, once helped cut breaches and kept cars moving in order through local roads.

Al Olaiwi also criticised what he described as a messy spread of restaurants across Muharraq Governorate.

Space

Many outlets, he said, have opened without space for car pick-ups beside the shop and without proper parking, leaving drivers to stop wherever they find a gap.

The result, he added, is jammed internal streets and disruption for nearby households. He said drivers who park at random outside these restaurants on narrow roads should be held to account, and that the wider issue of restaurant growth inside housing areas needs action so residents are not left dealing with the noise and traffic spillover.