Dear Off-Peak Car owner,
I am a recent off peak car (OPC) owner. I have noticed that the
restricted driving hours for OPCs on Saturday is between 7am and
3pm. OPC owners are only able to drive during this period if they
use a S$20 decal. However, I feel that it does not make commercial
sense for OPC owners to pay S$20 for half a Saturdays drive
compared to paying S$20 for a full weekdays drive. Therefore, I
believe that most OPCs are under-utilised on Saturday mornings
including mine. I believe the Saturday restriction was set many
years ago when the weekend car scheme started. Back then, it was
common for many organisations including private and public ones to
have a 5.5 days working week, which resulted in heavy traffic on
Saturday mornings. This trend has changed over the years and many
organisations including the government offices now have a 5 days
working week or at least alternative Saturdays off. This has
considerably reduced the traffic on Saturday mornings.
Therefore, I would like to lobby LTA to relax the restriction to
allow full day unrestricted driving on Saturdays for OPCs as the
restriction no longer serves its original purpose.
If you are a OPC owner and would like to support this suggestion
please do the following:
1. Send an email to [email protected] by 30 November with your
name and car number. I will submit a letter to LTA with all the
owners names and car numbers attached in support of this
suggestion.
2. Print 10 copies of this mailer and put it in your car. If you
see another OPC, please put this mailer on their windscreen.
Deadline: 30 November 2004.
3. Forward this email to your friends.
Thank you,
A OPC owner