Dozens of illegally parked and abandoned vehicles at Estonia’s southern border crossing with Russia have been removed by the Transport Administration.
The government agency started the work at the Koidula crossing in October. Since then, nearly 50 vehicles have been towed, and the situation has significantly improved.
Vehicle owners are not pleased.
Siim Jaksi, head of the Transport Administration’s supervision department, said: “Just imagine, you’re coming from the Russian side, you reach the parking area, and discover your car is gone. That fear and panic or uncertainty throws you off completely, and then you start trying to figure out where it might be. You turn to the police, to the Transport Administration. In the case of our contract partner, I think they have been met with some harsh words and sent off to all sorts of lovely places.”
More than 10 owners have already come to retrieve their cars from a storage site in the southern city of Võru. Jaksi said they have mostly been Russian-speaking individuals from Latvia, Finland, and Estonia.
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