This letter was sent to Today paper but not published due to lack of space.
3 February 2012
Editor, Voices
Today Paper
Many office buildings and multi story car parks in HDB estates
locate the parking spaces for visitors at the higher levels
and reserve the lower levels for seasons parking.
This does not make sense, as the visitors stay for a short period
and there is a high turnover of the parking space for visitors. Why waste
fuel in making many visitors drive through many levels of the
car park, especially of some season parking spaces are left empty?
As visitors are not familiar with the building, they may find scratch their vehicles
against the narrow ramps while driving up many levels.
This type of arrangement reflects a disregard for the
convenience of the visitors and the selfish attitude of the
building planners.
I am aware of one notable exception in the car park in
Nanyang Junior College which I visited two years ago. the visitors
car park was located near the entrance. The visitors
do not need to go round the premises to search for a
parking space.
Tan Kin Lian
1 comment:
as a 'permanent' user, one will find it inconvenient to have to travel the many levels each working day.
visitors may not necessarily visit every day.
on the other hand, it is probable that whether be it a perm user or a visitor, he or she may only enter once and exit once each visit to the carpark.
from the visitor's point of view, it may not make sense.
just like a newly appointed CEO may not have an in depth or balanced view of a long time ground staff's daily work and efforts.
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