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Motorists to face five new ERP gantries

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.

Source: Straits Times

What an idea by our bravo group of intellects...placing more and more gantries instead of doing something to reduce congestion, reduce car ownership, and encouraging more people to take public transport or use other means such as bikes and car pooling!!!

What Singapore really needs is someone in the government who realises the inherent problems and tackle it, not using a simple way of adding more gantries to earn more revenue and 'hopefully' improve the situation?!?!?!

I thought staying in TPY, Kallang and Upp Boon Keng were good choices...apparently not. U can drive out but not drive back home 'cos of the stupid gantries. STUPID...

Maybe I should just save money to get a bicycle. But...riding bicycles in Singapore is another issue altogether, with the type of drivers we have, it's really scary to ride a bike on Singapore roads. So what does this mean for the commuter???








Another reason to want to live and work overseas...it's getting so stupid in SG.

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