(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The Central Municipal Council (CMC) has asked Woqod (Qatar Fuel) not to allow outlets within the premises of its petrol stations to store and sell cooking gas cylinders to ensure people's safety.
Woqod, a listed entity, has a number of petrol filling and service stations across the country and they have shops and restaurants as well.
In some stations, there are outlets that retail the transparent cooking gas cylinders (Shafaf) whose sole distributor is Woqod.
The services committee of the CMC has told Woqod to remove Shafaf from those outlets warning that gas cylinders stored and retailed by outlets within its petrol stations can be dangerous for people's safety and hence the practice should be stopped.
"It is an unwelcome practice," the services panel of the public representative body has said. Woqod has been encouraging people to increasingly use the transparent cylinders in place of the metallic ones because they are safe.
While agreeing that they are indeed safe, the CMC stressed that they must not be sold at petrol stations.
The CMC panel also urged the government not to demolish old petrol stations and build other structures at their site.
New petrol stations must be built depending on the population of an area, the CMC panel has said.
For example, if one petrol station has been planned for an area which has a large population and it actually needs two or more petrol stations, that requirement should be fulfilled, reports local Arabic daily Al Watan.
The daily quoted CMC member Saeed Mubarak Al Rashdi as saying that the area of new petrol stations should be big and exit and entry lanes should be spacious enough to allow vehicles to pass through easily.
There are petrol stations with such narrow inlets and outlets that vehicles are stuck in traffic jams for hours on end, he said.
Then, there are petrol stations on highways and their inlets and outlets are built in such a way that vehicles coming out or going in can cause accident, said the CMC member. "There is, thus, the need to review and expand the inlets and outlets of these petrol stations," he said.
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