the impound saturates, the wrecks of cars remain in the street

The services of the pound and Bordeaux metropolis are no longer able to regulate the influx of car wrecks in the streets of the Bordeaux conurbation.

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How to deal with a surplus of abandoned cars? This question, communities, professionals and individuals are asking themselves in the Bordeaux metropolis. Because the wrecks are numerous. There would even be 2,500 permanently, in the streets of Bordeaux and its surroundings.

Abandonment in the street, “an easy solution”

The pound, it has only 700 places, and it is overflowing. Between the influx of new entries, and the large number of unclaimed vehicles, the situation has been straining for three years.

“We think that many of our citizens prefer to leave their vehicles abandoned on the side of the road rather than entering a convenience store or a mechanic who should be charged, considers Nicolas Adreotti, managing director of Metpark, the metropolitan parking authority.
It is an easy solution “.

Reduce delays

The taking charge of his vehicle by the pound has a cost for the owner: 226 euros. The latter sometimes does not respond to requests and refrains from paying his bill. A real scourge for the pound and the metropolis, which seized the prefecture.

Pierre Brebineau, from the traffic and parking department in Bordeaux metropolitan area, asks in particular for a shorter time between arrival at the impound and transfer to the scrapyard. Currently, up to six weeks can elapse between these two stages.

“This would allow us to regulate storage. And the volumes stored for a month would be quadrupled”, he believes.

Each year, around 7,000 vehicles are removed in the metropolis.

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