10-11-2010, 06:04 AM
Does this park and ride actually work? Any forumers here actually used it before?
Nov 10, 2010
Two more carparks for Park & Ride scheme
ANOTHER 40 parking spaces will soon be added to the Park & Ride scheme, which encourages motorists to leave their vehicles in carparks near where they can hop onto public transport to get to work.
Two carparks, each with 20 spaces, will become available in the next two months. They are at Block 11A Pine Close near Mountbatten MRT station, and Block 320 Shunfu Road near Marymount MRT station.
This brings the total number of Park & Ride sites to 41, with 4,793 parking spaces.
Under the scheme, motorists pay $70 a month: $30 goes towards the season parking ticket valid at the designated carpark for the month, and $40 into a stored-value transit card for use on buses or trains to get to their workplaces.
Sales of Park & Ride ticket sets for Mountbatten start next Monday for use from Dec 1; sets for Marymount will be available on Dec 15 for use from January.
The scheme, launched 20 years ago, aims to get more motorists to drive shorter distances and use public transport.
About 1,600 Park & Ride ticket sets were sold last month, with about 30 per cent purchased through the online booking system launched in June.
Motorists who buy their sets online may pick them up at any TransitLink ticketing office.
Up until plans were made to add the Pine Close and Shunfu Road carparks to the Park & Ride scheme, the carparks most recently added were those in Queenstown, Yio Chu Kang and Buona Vista.
The Land Transport Authority said reception to these three carparks has been positive, with three in four spaces taken.
CHONG ZI LIANG
Nov 10, 2010
Two more carparks for Park & Ride scheme
ANOTHER 40 parking spaces will soon be added to the Park & Ride scheme, which encourages motorists to leave their vehicles in carparks near where they can hop onto public transport to get to work.
Two carparks, each with 20 spaces, will become available in the next two months. They are at Block 11A Pine Close near Mountbatten MRT station, and Block 320 Shunfu Road near Marymount MRT station.
This brings the total number of Park & Ride sites to 41, with 4,793 parking spaces.
Under the scheme, motorists pay $70 a month: $30 goes towards the season parking ticket valid at the designated carpark for the month, and $40 into a stored-value transit card for use on buses or trains to get to their workplaces.
Sales of Park & Ride ticket sets for Mountbatten start next Monday for use from Dec 1; sets for Marymount will be available on Dec 15 for use from January.
The scheme, launched 20 years ago, aims to get more motorists to drive shorter distances and use public transport.
About 1,600 Park & Ride ticket sets were sold last month, with about 30 per cent purchased through the online booking system launched in June.
Motorists who buy their sets online may pick them up at any TransitLink ticketing office.
Up until plans were made to add the Pine Close and Shunfu Road carparks to the Park & Ride scheme, the carparks most recently added were those in Queenstown, Yio Chu Kang and Buona Vista.
The Land Transport Authority said reception to these three carparks has been positive, with three in four spaces taken.
CHONG ZI LIANG