anyway, some updates. the tenders have already been awarded for
both bus parks.
For new woodlands bus park, the construction cost is SGD
3,799,350...
while for the new changi bus park, the construction cost is SGD
10,395,000
wonder why the Changi bus park is much more expensive? maybe
multi storey?
I think they are building multi-storeys for the Changi bus park
though. Otherwise if they're only going for a ground-level design,
sooner or later they'll run out of space to expand. Good choice to
build multi storeys first, then if not enough capacity, can expand
out to neighbouring plots & build more multi storeys on those
newer plots? If they only build at ground floor, very hard for them
to try to build more storeys later on on their existing land.
Think BNDEP is suffering because of this, cause I don't think
BNDEP is exactly affected by the flight path of planes from Changi.
The fire station down the road is in the flight path, but BNDEP's
location I seldom see planes flying over for that matter. Plus the
industrial building opposite BNDEP already dwarfs the neighbouring
buildings, that's why even if BNDEP went with multi storeys back
then, I think that would have been plausible?
The higher tender price doesn't justify if it's just because
SBST has a larger fleet for the bus park...it's like 3 times more
though.
