Motorists to face five new ERP gantries
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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.
