By end 2015, the mechanised parking system means your vehicle will park itself at HDB car parks

Total cost? S$18 million for three such car parks.

Belmont Lay| September 15, 03:01 AM

Three mature housing estates in Singapore facing a shortage of car parks will have a mechanised parking system fitted.

Costing a total of about S$18 million, the system in these three estates should be ready by the end of next year.

The pilot sites are at: Bangkit Road, beside Block 259A (above left picture); Yishun Avenue 4, beside Block 666A (above right picture); and Changi Village Road, behind Block 1 (below picture).

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The new parking system will be fully automated. Motorists need only park their vehicles in the car-lift and key in a PIN number.

Vehicles will be automatically transferred to an empty parking storage area. Keying in the same PIN number will retrieve the vehicle.

The mechanised parking system is not new. It is in place at several private condominiums and hotels in Singapore.

The Housing and Development Board said it will keep the parking charges for the mechanised parking system at the same rate as existing car parks.

The commencement ceremony for the construction of the 15-storey mechanised carpark in Bangkit Road took place on Sept. 14, 2014, where National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan, was the guest of honour.

He had written in his blog that construction of the mechanised parking system will start next week.

The new mechanised parking system will add another 60 lots to the current 311, at a cost of about S$5 million.

The pilot project at Yishun will cost about S$3 million and will boast 246 lots, up from the current 224 lots.

The project at Changi Village will cost around S$10 million and will increase the number of lots from the current 182 to 319.

This MPS project has been in the works for two years.

Lee Bee Wah, Chairperson of the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for National Development and Environment, announced that HDB would be implementing the mechanised parking system in the three pilot sites earlier in October 2013.

A joint GPC-HDB study on the viability of mechanised parking in HDB estates in Singapore, was initiated by Lee in January 2012.

 

Photos via HDB. 

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