Heavier Cars in HDB Carparks

[Spoon]

they finally decided it's ok for big cars in carparks....

 

THE larger Jaguars, Mercedes-Benzes, BMWs and other vehicles weighing up to 2,000kg can now park in the 670 HDB carparks.The Housing Board has amended a decades-old weight limit rule which allowed only empty vehicles of up to 1,500kg to do so.The problem: This barred up to one-fifth of Singapore's 406,000 passenger cars, which weigh more than that.The HDB said the new weight limit, which came into force last Saturday, applies whether a vehicle is empty or fully occupied.

 

'They've finally done it,' Motor Traders Association vice-president Michael Wong said. 'The association has actually approached them on this a few times in recent months. At last they've revised the limit.'

 

An HDB spokesman said the change was made to 'take into account the increasing weight of vehicles arising from changes in industry standards'. The new limit covers most vehicles on the road today, but there are still several models of cars which go beyond 2,000kg, such as the bigger sport-utility vehicles and fully-occupied multi-purpose vehicles. Some even weigh more than 2,500kg.Meanwhile, the Traffic Police are still mulling over their weight limit for a Class 3 driving licence. This class allows you to drive cars and light commercial vehicles that do not weigh more than 2,500kg.But according to the Land Transport Authority, about 60 passenger cars here exceed that limit. These include some Rolls-Royces and Bentleys.

 

BTW...can anyone tell me how to insert a link?

[Gadgeter]

For links... once you have either enter or paste the link.

 

click on this icon (while using Advanced Editor mode) ....

 

Or us the traditional way of

 

[*url*] link/URL [*/url*]

 

Ignore the * found above.

Edited May 5, 2004 by Gadgeter

[Vit4wd]

That's because the civil servants are too lazy to do anything about it.

 

Anyway, we shall wait and see the collapse of a multi storey car park, then they wake up their lazy ideas.