PARKING PROBLEMS IN HDB ESTATES (Committee's findings)

Dr Tan Cheng Bock asked the Minister for National Development whether the committee that has been set up to look into the parking problems in housing estates has come out with any solution with regard to the parking of big vehicles like lorries, trailers and school buses in Housing and Development Board estates.

Mr Teh Cheang Wan: The objectives of the Highway Committee, which has representatives from the Traffic Police, Public Works Department, Registry of Vehicles and Urban Redevelopment Authority, are to study parking problems on an island-wide basis and to recommend a comprehensive parking policy.

The URA is currently conducting a survey in consultation with the Highway Committee to determine the nature and extent of the parking problem for lorries, school buses and other heavy vehicles. The survey will be completed in March 1983.

Pending the formulation of long term solutions to the problem and as an interim measure, the Highway Committee has recommended that overnight parking be allowed along public roads in HDB estates which have low vehicular flow. The URA will implement a pilot scheme for kerbside night parking of heavy vehicles in the Old Kallang Estate. The scheme will be effected in January 1983. If successful, it will be extended to other housing estates.