New ERP Gantries @ ORchard Road

mach10 SG

one day u gona pay to go into Tamipnes... Pay to go in AMK... blah blah...
Pay And Pay sia...

Praetorian111 SG

this is indirectly telling you that orchard rd is too crowded, if you Singaporeans want to shop go to those neighbour shopping malls.... dun crowd up orchrd rd it is for the tourist.

quek SG

lets see wat will happen during the great sale...expect us to go thr and pay n pay !!! Mad Mad

LH83 SG

Orchard Road IS crowded... but ERP just isn't the way... they say less ppl will want to drive into Orchard, cos the ERP is from 12 noon to 8pm... but then, that just means that more people will take the trains...

The MRT is already very packed from people going home from work... imagine how much more packed it will get. I already have trouble getting onto the train at City Hall to go to Orchard cos it's so full... If the frequency of trains isn't going to increase, then the MRT will begin to look like Japan's subway... always so packed and crowded... esp when people still don't know how to move in... there are always empty gaps in between 2 sets of doors, just because the person right next to the gap has no consideration to move in for others...

I think next time, we'll all have to FLY a helicopter into Orchard road... They should look into re-routing traffic from orchard, or widening the roads, rather than charging people for entering the area...

silv3rgal SG

Shop Online better.. don't go out.. no extra costs.. lolz

Kr0n SG

The thing is, so far, there hasn't seem to be any public outcry from people about the weekend jams. And even if they do, it's simple. Park your car somewhere else and walk over into town, either that or go somewhere else. We already know that getting into a jam in Orchard during a weekend is just part and parcel of being in town. We either have to live with it or find ourselves an alternative.

If the government keeps using excuses like this to increase their funding, people are going to keep getting unhappier, and more people are going to leave their "homeland". Our leaders won't have much reason to think we're deserting our country anymore. Taking the public transport isn't going to help either. The buses are packed like as if they are sending the Jews to Auswitz (again), and so are the trains. Bus lanes aren't much of a use too because the last (many) times I checked, they got stuck in the jam too. Trains are packed as well, and if the situation continues like this, SMRT will probably say they need to run their trains more frequently and there'll be another reason for yet another price hike. Same goes for SBS. The situation is going to get worse if they try to "solve" it this way.

FaTe_TwisTer SG

siao lah, bus fare increase here mrt fare increase there. now cars also need to pay for more erp gantries.. tourists who wanna take bus or mrt see so packed also sian already. making singapore an expensive stopover to shop before going to another destination. hope those future young mps dont screw singapore up.

parryhotter SG

Ya right! To ease the traffic flow is an excuse! It's the money. We all know that. Don't be surprise one day when you wake up from your bed, you see a big gantry outside your window. It will happen. Sooner or later.

In Singapore, our life is pretty much guided (like I've mentioned before). A year or so ago, the government wants to make car much more affordable, hence COE is lowered. And now, they say roads are too congested! Why was COE implemented in the first place? To stop the oh-so-average or the poor from buying cars as not to further congest the roads? Ok, COE was implemented because the government says "Need to control, too many cars will congest the roads!". And what happened a year or so ago (and still are going on)? They said "Oh, we want to make cars more affordable". And what happened now? Too many cars! More gantries, more gantries!

And guess what! Do you seriously think the gantries will help ease the traffic jam (when most of the time especially in the afternoon there's still heavy traffic on the CTE to the city)? No! Why? Because we've got no choice already. We'd probably set up business in the city and bought the car when the COE was low and before the grantries was errected! Will COE really help cut down on people buying cars? Again no. If it would, why are still so many cars?

And the cigarettes price hike issues. How many of you smoke? Hardcore smokers (more than 5 years or so) would not likely to quit, no matter how expensive the ciggies will be. Ok, maybe I am exaggerating. They would probably travel up north to buy/smuggle when the prices here becomes unreasonable! What does this lead to? More traffic jams at the causeway. Then what? Granties? Another problem. Smuggling cases will rise too.

Oh, so they increased the ciggie prices so as to discourage the youth from picking up the habit? Why didn't they think of that 20 or 30 or even since indepence? If smoking is so bad and harmful, why can't the government ban smoking just like they've banned chewing gums? They can't right? Why? Some sort of revenue to the country?

Sorry for being so long winded - all I want to put across is, it's the money!

Thank you.

Poopie-Head SG

very well said parryhotter!

So we should ask the authorities

What actually went wrong that caused the congestion?

- Is it that your policy for COE went wrong? (COE quota messed up?)

- Are the roads not able to handle the amount of traffic? (road building LTA messed up?)

Why are we having congested roads after sooo many kinds of "controls"?

Somebody must've messed up! Who?

ShutterBug SG

They might as frigging well put gantries outside every carpark entrance in every HDB estate!

Or a device that deducts an amount the moment we start our engine!

AF1 SG

It is a case of affordable purchase of cars but expensive maintenance.. It’s something like the lowering of income tax and the increase in GST.. IMHO i don’t think the newly added gantries will help ease traffic in the near future.. Car owners will just drive through as per normal.. Pay and then forget about it.. If such a situation happened overseas, some organisation will probably start striking about it.. Well, in Singapore, we are probably all passive citizens(dare not kp to the authorities) and that is why the government is taking advantage of it?

sbst275 SG

The worst is that if enter from other CBD zone, enter Orchard thru YMCA have to pay another time...

Haiz... Now lesser of 1 lane as bus lane will be converted to full day operation

ShutterBug SG

What the HECK else is, if not because they need money?

Just look at how hard it is to even get your money back from CPF????

chunyong SG

dats wat i did since 199x....send to ur doorstep, include air shipping also cheaper than buying here.

sonicworld76 SG

wat to do ... we need to pay & pay & pay.......
that wat they wan from us Evil or Very Mad

deathscythe99 SG

Wont affect...for now Mr. Green

So grab your stuff guys! Laughing

deathscythe99 SG

Anyway, ERP gantries dun solve problems lor Rolling Eyes

Orchard road is for ppl to transit, why they want ppl to transit Orchard Road so fast nia? Laughing

Got other ways to divert away from Orchard to reach your destination also wad...

In that case, why not promote the other ways of getting to your destinations? U know, like letting drivers know that other than gg through Orchard, the other ways to get to your destination, e.g. east to west, north to south.

silv3rgal SG

Originally posted by deathscythe99:
Anyway, ERP gantries dun solve problems lor

Orchard road is for ppl to transit, why they want ppl to transit Orchard Road so fast nia?

Got other ways to divert [b]away from Orchard to reach your destination also wad...

In that case, why not promote the other ways of getting to your destinations? U know, like letting drivers know that other than gg through Orchard, the other ways to get to your destination, e.g. east to west, north to south.[/b]

It's just an EXCUSE to swallow our $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$...............
what other choices do peopple have if they just happen to be working at the CBD/Orchard? Park outside town and take train meh?

I bet if this happens in other countries... you will see demonstrations everywhere liaoz....

Diane Warwick SG

Great

Then orchard area will be filled with nice cars!

sbst275 SG

Well... It is making prob elsewhere...

They say Serangoon Rd and Upp Serangoon Rd can be alt for CTE, but then, you see... They will make green light at Whompoa Nth shortly, now it needs 4 tries to get past the junction, next time it may need 6 Evil or Very Mad

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