Debated in Parliament on 3 Feb 2020.
Mr Dennis Tan Lip Fong asked the Minister for National Development for areas within public housing estates or town centres where carparks are exclusively or predominantly in the form of multi-storey carparks (MSCPs), whether HDB can conduct a review to assess the adequacy of parking lots for delivery trucks which cannot access MSCPs due to height limitations, with the view to increasing the number of parking lots for such trucks so that their drivers can park their trucks legally while doing their deliveries.
Mr Speaker, HDB provides all blocks served by multi-storey carparks (MSCPs) with loading and unloading bays. To facilitate loading and unloading activities, the bays are located near HDB blocks and do not have height limits. Delivery drivers can make use of these bays for loading and unloading activities. The number of loading and unloading bays may be adjusted at the local level based on feedback from commercial tenants and users of these bays.
I thank the Minister for the reply. I just have one supplementary question. Could the Ministry consider addressing the needs of those drivers – the delivery trucks where there is only one driver or that they may have two staff but they cannot afford anyone staying behind in the vehicle while making the delivery to the nearby shops?
Sir, I thank the Member for his concern. HDB exercises flexibility allowing delivery drivers whether they are alone or even with some accompanying colleagues, time to do their deliveries. That is why they have bays. Understandably, deliveries will take some time.
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