I just went there today. The place is hell. The Fairprice Xtra
is in basement 2. Since most parts of the building is still not
open, people have to squeeze through one of the two available
entrances, find their way to basement 1, and then squeeze onto one
single pathetic travellator from basement 1 to basement 2.... (The
other escalators and lifts are not operational yet.)
When I reached B1, the downward travellator from B1 to B2
malfunctioned... People were piling up beside the start of the
travellator and are forced to turn back. There was a NTUC staff at
the start of the travellator trying to divert human traffic, but
she was overwhelmed by a huge mob of confused people trying to ask
for directions. The scene was very chaotic.
There was a staircase beside the travellator. Some people tried to
walk down the stairs to B2, but somehow the door at B2 was locked,
so the people walked up the stairs again. More and more people were
arriving and there was no way to get to B2. In the end, I walked
all the way to the other end of the building, took the escalator to
B3, walked across the carpark at B3, and went up from B3 to B2...
By the time I reached Fairprice Xtra, the downward travellator was
working again, and the staircase door was unlocked...
@#%&*#!!!!!!!
The Fairprice Xtra was super-crowded. The situation is worse than
Vivocity. Vivocity, although crowded, is still spacious and has
clear directions. The new AMK mall is crowded, claustrophobic, and
disorganised. I was stuck in a human traffic jam most of the time,
and at one time I was almost knocked down by a supermarket trolley.
(The bl**dy lady who pushed the trolley was behaving like a
chiong-ster...)
Besides the Fairprice Xtra, there are very few other stores. (Most
stores are still empty or still under renovation.) Hence, it is
highly recommended to avoid this place for a time being. You should
only go when the whole mall is ready... (when all the shops, lifts,
escalators, bus interchange, underground passage to MRT station,
etc are opened...)
