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So you are obviously not aware that in many HDB estates,the free parking was abruptly removed overnight by the HDB? These are places where shopping malls are built. One of the latest being nex at upper Serangoon/Serangoon Central. Practically overnight ALL the parking lots in the vicinity became paid parking with the parking entry barrier conspicuously blocking the entrance to all car parks.
So the HDB requires at least 80% of residents to opt for it before it would allow free parking on weekends and PH but thought nothing of unilaterally and arbitrarily overturning it overnight because of COMMERCIAL interest –in favour of the malls?! It is the easiest solution for the HDB,but no so for residents. Why can’t the HDB GO THE EXTRA MILE to seek residents’advice and feedback instead of acting so high handedly. While the malls proximity may be convenient,it is at our expense!
By the way who pays for the installation,running and maintenance of the barriers when previously there were no such cost or requirement? The taxpayers?
I DON’T SEE WHY THE HDB CANNOT ISSUE EACH HOUSEHOLD AFFECTED BY THE REMOVAL OF FREE PARKING WITH UP TO THREE (EG) ENTRY PASSES FOR WEEKENDS FOR LEGITIMATE VISITORS TO THEIR HOME?
YET ANOTHER WAY IS TO ISSUE US WITH A SPECIAL PASS THAT WE CAN USE TO FACILITATE OUR VISITORS’ENTRY? i WOULDN’T MIND GOING DOWN TO THE BARRIER EACH TIME TO ‘ZAP’THEM IN WITH THIS PASS AS AT LEAST OUR RIGHT TO FREE PARKING HAS NOT BEEN ARBITRARY REMOVED. WITH THIS THERE WOULD NOT MINIMUM ABUSE,IF ANY AT ALL!
This would be a good issue for the next GE,that’s for sure.
Not only is the free Sunday parking removed at HDB blocks in the vicinity of malls,the parking entry barrier has also contributed a lot of traffic conjestion due to cars queuing to enter such carparks when they are full and many a times it becomes a gridlock when buses join in the queue in their bus lanes.
Car owners are often penalised in the form of paying for ERP fees when traffic conditions worsen,but what if the conjestion are caused in part by the authorities ? Who pays ?
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