Local News: Enhancements Made to The Park & Ride Scheme

These new initiatives serve to encourage more car owners to park at designated P&R sites, before hopping onto a train or bus to continue their journey. This helps to reduce traffic demand, as for every motorist who participates in the scheme, there is potentially one less car on the road or expressways.

LTA and TransitLink (TL) will be implementing an online system for the purchase of P&R sets. This is targeted to be ready in the second quarter of 2010. With the new channel, motorists will be provided with an additional and more convenient option of buying their P&R sets online, and do not have to personally queue at TL Ticket Offices when sales are open. Motorists who purchase the P&R set on-line can go to any TL Ticket Office at a more convenient time to pick-up the Season Parking Ticket decal for their chosen P&R car park and to top-up the P&R ez-link card. More details on the on-line channel will be provided nearer the implementation date.

LTA has worked with HDB to introduce three new P&R car parks to the existing 37 in the vicinity of popular P&R car parks at Queenstown, Buona Vista and Yio Chu Kang. With the three new sites, the number of car park lots that are situated near popular sites will increase by an additional 90 lots from 1 May 2010. This brings the total number of P&R sites to 40 with over 4,800 lots. Sales of P&R sets at these three new sites will commence on 15 April 2010.

The new sites are:

- Buona Vista – Blk 16A, Ghim Moh Road
- Queenstown – Blk 53A, Strathmore Ave
- Yio Chu Kang – Blk 627, Ang Mo Kio St 61

To increase awareness of less popular sites and encourage more motorists to consider Park and Ride, LTA will implement the following initiatives from April 2010:

(a) Enhance the PublicTransport@SG portal to provide essential information for all P&R sites such as detailed walking path from the car park to the nearest transport node, estimate time required and the possible costs savings from using the scheme.

(b) Provide big foot markers to guide users to the nearest transport node at the less popular P&R sites. The markers will be progressively painted from April 2010.

(c) Install additional signages at P&R sites with map features to provide users with detailed walking path from P&R site to the nearest transport node. The maps will be installed progressively from April 2010.

(d) Send P&R leaflets to motorists from April 2010 by tapping on the road tax renewal process

Credits: wilswong