With less than one month un­til Christ­mas, wreck­ing has re­sumed in the cap­i­tal city.

Yes­ter­day, over a dozen mo­torists were left $500 poor­er af­ter their ve­hi­cles were wrecked by the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion.

Wreck­ing in the cap­i­tal stopped af­ter re­sum­ing in June. It came to a halt af­ter the wreck­ers were down for re­pairs.

The lat­est re­sump­tion was an­nounced by Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne this week dur­ing the City Cor­po­ra­tion's month­ly meet­ing.

Guardian Me­dia fol­lowed the lone wreck­er around Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day and saw first­hand sev­er­al mo­tor ve­hi­cles be­ing wrecked from Ari­api­ta Av­enue and sur­round­ing ar­eas.

Mo­torists said it was a huge in­con­ve­nience and some claimed it was all about State agen­cies mak­ing mon­ey dur­ing the Christ­mas sea­son.

One mo­torist who got his ve­hi­cle wrecked yes­ter­day said, “I didn’t even know wreck­ing start­ed back. I thought my ve­hi­cle was stolen. How they ex­pect peo­ple to even know where to go? When we fi­nal­ly find out it's down here (Dock Road), it’s cash on­ly. So, we had to go find an ATM, then come back. Then we were told we have to go to the Wood­brook Po­lice Sta­tion to pay the cashier then re­turn for the ve­hi­cle. It’s a lot of run around. How do you ex­pect some­one to do all of that run­ning around with no ve­hi­cle? It’s very in­con­ve­nient.”

An­oth­er dri­ver said, “I think they’re just look­ing for rev­enue. I don’t think it’s noth­ing else but rev­enue. I think it’s a hus­tle. It might be a le­gal hus­tle but a hus­tle.

If you’re block­ing en­trances and stuff yes but how do you ex­pect busi­ness­es to car­ry on? This is a busi­ness area, it’s a com­mer­cial area. Look­ing for a park around here is the hard­est thing to get.”

How­ev­er, Port-of-Spain City Po­lice act­ing Sgt Ravi Maraj said they are tar­get­ing law­break­ers.

“Our main con­cen­tra­tion is the taxi stands. Most of the ve­hi­cles you’re see­ing be­ing towed, they were parked on the St James and St Ann’s taxi stands and that is a prob­lem that we’ve been hav­ing since we start­ed op­er­a­tions. We’re al­so con­cen­trat­ing on the bus stops, and park­ing on the cor­ners. We have a lot of de­liv­ery trucks that tra­verse Char­lot­tle Street and Hen­ry Street, that are un­able to turn the cor­ners, which are caus­ing a lot of prob­lems. We al­so have con­cerns com­ing from the Av­enue on Fri­day and Sat­ur­day nights, where a lot of Wood­brook res­i­dents com­plain about a lot of peo­ple park­ing by their gates and they are un­able to ac­cess their garages. There was an in­ci­dent where an am­bu­lance was un­able to ac­cess a per­son that need­ed to go to the hos­pi­tal. So, these are the ar­eas that we are pay­ing par­tic­u­lar at­ten­tion to. I want to ad­vice the pub­lic to pay at­ten­tion to the traf­fic signs that are placed and to ob­serve all traf­fic reg­u­la­tions.”

The Port-of-Spain May­or said two wreck­ers will be in op­er­a­tion.

How­ev­er, Guardian Me­dia ob­served on­ly one wreck­er in use yes­ter­day.