How do you solve the shortage of overnight parking lot issue?
It’s been an issue that has been bugging my family for months. It seems like more and more people are owning cars around my house and that parking becomes an issue at night, especially if you home return late. I haven’t wrote to Town Council yet but I’m pretty sure that my neighbors have done that already. And if my MP shows up at my door 1 day, the overnight parking issue will definitely be one of the topic that I’ll bring up to him.
But sadly, I’ve never seen my MP at my doorstep before. Never in my life. Damn, why is it I always see other MPs at their constituent’s doorstep on the news. ANYWAY….
HDB and URA announced their brilliant solution to the insufficient overnight parking lot problem. Increase the parking fee for overnight parking lor. Or rather, doubling the overnight parking fee from $2 to $4. Wow, is that the best solution from the top brains in HDB and URA? Seriously?
Cars need to find a place to park at night. You increase the parking fee, they still need to park there if they have to. How is increasing the fee from $2 to $4 going to help? Besides, I think most of the cars are the car park are season parking. Make not much difference.
Increasing the fee for overnight parking is easy. It looks like action has been taken on the issue. But how effective is this measure?
Planning guys! Planning. Either you increase the number of parking lots or you decrease the number of cars on the road. Increasing the parking fee only give you a bigger bonus at the end of the year. It does not help anyone at all. End of the day, those car still need to park somewhere.
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Another thing in the article made my blood boils.
Another MP, Halimah Yacob of Jurong GRC, feels that while it would help to ease the parking woes of residents, the amount is not very significant.
WAH CIAO! Who voted this Halimah Yacob into parliament? Doubling the fees still not very significant?
Oh wait…. she is my MP. Oops. (But we walkover during last election. So don’t blame me. I didn’t vote for her. )
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I also face this problem! Instead of increasing the prices, they should build more carparks!
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They should seriously reduce the ownership of cars. Singapore is running out of land. It can’t even to build wider canals to contain flooding. And why shouldn’t parking charges go up? Does the government have a duty to keep car ownership affordable?