Motorists to face five new ERP gantries
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Motorists to face five new ERP gantries
http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_194130.html
They are mainly in the heart of residential areas.
By Christopher Tan
MOTORISTS can expect to pay more over the next few months to use the roads when five new ERP gantries are up, many in the heart of residential areas.
The gantries are in Upper Bukit Timah Road (outside Hume Park), Toa Payoh Lorong 6, Upper Boon Keng Road, Kallang Bahru Road and Geylang Bahru Road.
All except the ones in Toa Payoh Lorong 6 and Geylang Bahru Road have been completed.
The Land Transport Authority has not announced when these new gantries will be switched on, but already residents are concerned why their neighbourhoods are targetted.
Commenting on the gantry outside Hume Park, Bukit Timah resident Mr Burven Lee, 43, said: 'The road here does get jammed up. But will a gantry solve the problem?'
'My feeling is that it will just redistribute traffic around,' the director of a statutory board added.
Toa Payoh resident 68-year-old retiree Tony Chan wanted to know why the gantry at Toa Payoh Lorong 6 is sited near the entrance to the residential area.
The LTA spokesman explained that the location of the gantry is unlikely to affect residents as it charges motorists entering into Toa Payoh from Braddell Road who add on to the traffic in the area.
He added that if gantries were at exit points, more Toa Payoh residents would be affected. Also it would plug a gap in series of gantries forming an outer cordon around the city.
The new gantries are part of the LTA's plans to have an 'outer cordon' to control traffic going into the city. -
Loads of rubbish excuses.Originally posted by fishbuff:Motorists to face five new ERP gantries
The new gantries are part of the LTA's plans to have an 'outer cordon' to control traffic going into the city.
Gantries near residents neighbourhood made no sense at all. -
wtf! My future working place just beside only! And it is not like Geylang Bahru and Kallang Bahru are congested areas...
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the surcharges r getting scary le
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Our LTA shows that they only know how to increase ERP and build more gantries ... What's new ?
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Foresee that 30 years down the road, someone will succeed in bringing TNT to Sg and destroy all the ERP gantriesOriginally posted by Trump_Card:Our LTA shows that they only know how to increase ERP and build more gantries ... What's new ? -
Just like our govt shows that they only know how to increase ministers pay and collect more taxes... What's new ?Originally posted by Trump_Card:Our LTA shows that they only know how to increase ERP and build more gantries ... What's new ? -
Our LTA shows that they only know how to increase ERP and build more gantries ... What's new ?
Talent in government indeed. -
Increase GST, increase ERP, increase bus fares, increase taxi faresOriginally posted by Poh Ah Pak:Talent in government indeed.
Then they say
Foresee inflation of up till 5%
So smart leh... Multi-million dollar paid talent wor. -
Next time there will be gantries at the door of each HDB flat.
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This reminds me of that edited picture with an ERP gantry right outside a multi-storey carparkOriginally posted by mistyblue:Next time there will be gantries at the door of each HDB flat. -
I support the erection of gantries very strongly ONLY IF the money collected is used to improve our public transportation.
They discourage people from driving, better for the environment -
Who knows in 2050 there'll be a ERP gantry every 1km in Singapore
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Earth calling Faroukaladad...Originally posted by faroukalhadad:I support the erection of gantries very strongly ONLY IF the money collected is used to improve our public transportation.
They discourage people from driving, better for the environment
Earth calling ..
Ah forget it.... -
On CTE and CBD, still grudgingly understandable, although unpopular
But on normal roads????? -
Bit ERP gantries can collect millions...
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if they seriously wanna discourage pple from driving, there are definately many other ways to make sure that happens & not by increasing the number of gantries.Originally posted by faroukalhadad:I support the erection of gantries very strongly ONLY IF the money collected is used to improve our public transportation.
They discourage people from driving, better for the environment
so what do you think
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i think the erp is to support part of the 21% pay hike for the ministers.Originally posted by de_middle:if they seriously wanna discourage pple from driving, there are definately many other ways to make sure that happens & not by increasing the number of gantries.
so what do you think
newer erp is to support another part of the 21% for the next year. -
what i think is, the high COE in the 90s was a good way to discourage ppl from driving.Originally posted by de_middle:if they seriously wanna discourage pple from driving, there are definately many other ways to make sure that happens & not by increasing the number of gantries.
so what do you think
but they do the bidding system - thinking it will give way to higher COE prices but alamak, skali it goes down hence less money for them.
so now they need to recover all those lost monies from ERP
anyone agree with my theory? -
help singaporeans own more cars mah.
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The scourge of the FAP, continues...
>> ERP is to ease traffic congestion, but at the same time, help Singaporeans to own cars... -
if you want people to drive less
increase the bloody number of trains and buses and lower the fare -
Oops... I'm afraid they are "too smart" to wanna implement such simple solutions...Originally posted by laurence82:if you want people to drive less
increase the bloody number of trains and buses and lower the fare -
Now why would the ministers want to drive less in their shining new cars?Originally posted by laurence82:if you want people to drive less
increase the bloody number of trains and buses and lower the fare -
think heard it that rumoured to have 300 ERP island wide
