[ST] Changi's T1 carpark closing to make way for Jewel
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It will soon be less convenient for drivers to park and get into Changi Airport's Terminal 1 (T1).
Drivers familiar with the terminal's open-air carpark with 850 spaces will find the area closed in the fourth quarter of this year to make way for the construction of Project Jewel.
Changi Airport Group (CAG) said at a press briefing yesterday that it has not set a date for the closure but it will test new parking arrangements from Oct 17 to 21 before the permanent closure.
Drivers will be directed to park at Terminal 2's (T2) Carpark 2B, which has 1,100 carpark spaces.
After dropping passengers off at T1's departure level, drivers will have to make a slight detour, including a U-turn, to get to this designated carpark.
They will then have to take the skytrain or board a free shuttle bus, which runs every five to 15 minutes, to T1. The shuttle bus trip takes about seven minutes.
This temporary carpark situation will last till 2018 when the $1.47 billion Jewel is completed. The largely retail complex will be built on the 3.5ha site where the open-air carpark is. It will have an underground carpark with 2,500 spaces and a link to terminals 1, 2 and 3, and Changi Airport MRT station.
CAG said that the occupancy rates of the existing T1 carpark hits 85 per cent during peak hours and is about half-full during off- peak hours. T1 served close to 18 million passengers last year.
CAG said that it was doing a number of things to avoid a parking crunch. This includes opening a new open-air carpark next to the JetQuay terminal on Oct 14 and adding more spaces in the T2 carparks. This will add 400 spaces in total.
It is understood that even with these new additions there will still be a shortfall of 400 spaces. Despite the decrease, CAG said it felt the number of spaces would be sufficient to cater to demand.
It will also free up even more spaces by discouraging drivers rom parking their cars at the airport for extended periods of time. The 24-hour parking fee cap of $20 for cars parked at the airport will be removed. Drivers will have to pay $57.60 for full-day parking.
"We have about 500 to 600 (drivers) who park and leave their cars overnight at the airport, (sometimes) for weeks or days," said Mr Lim Ming Koon, vice-president of CAG's T1 expansion programme. He added that these drivers accounted for only 2 per cent of daily carpark users but occupied 20 per cent of the space.
Motorists said they hoped the new parking plans would not be overly confusing.
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No parking space good lah...means more ppl will take taxi to airport. "500 to 600 drivers who park their cars overnight". Good lah,next time take taxi better.
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Then how, want to camp at Airport or Garden By the Bay?
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Originally posted by Taxilim88:
No parking space good lah...means more ppl will take taxi to airport. "500 to 600 drivers who park their cars overnight". Good lah,next time take taxi better.
Lan sai lah, people will ask their family member to drive them there one lah...moreover, most can claim companies one..so expensive, they also park lor -
Originally posted by bowah:
Lan sai lah, people will ask their family member to drive them there one lah...moreover, most can claim companies one..so expensive, they also park lorFark lah...if family member can drive, why park there and waste a few hundred dollars in the first place?
Claim companies? Tell me which company can allow claims for overnight parking in airport when there are much cheaper alternative transport available? That company must be stupid.
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Lan sai lah. Last time can park, so family dun bother to drive, now very troublesome to park, not scare about the parking fees lah..but scare cannot find space, so ask family or friend to drive lor..better than call smlj diesel, hybrid cum CNG Taxis..tio bo.. Singapore peoples are not scare of paying high, they scare dun have enough only, knn COE at 90k, Quota only 250, can see 900 people bidding for it, you think Singaporeans got no money ar?? Govt now reduce the carpark space for construction, at the same time, they dun want to lose out on parking fees collection so increase to $50++, one car park become nearly 2.5 car parking fee price, just like COE, or like our taxis, one guy pay rental/coe today is quite equivalent to 2 guys paying for the same stuff.