Subjectively Singaporean

Recently, there was announcement that said that with effect from Nov 1, night-parking charges for cars at carparks in Housing Board estates will be raised from $2 to $4. 


However, I do not think it is a good way to ensure enough parking spaces for season-parking ticket holders, I think that it is only a short-sighted measure. 


Firstly, if a car owner wants to park his car at a car park, he would have to pay the carpark fees no matter how much the charge are, the car owner still need a parking space for his car and thus have to park his car at the car parks. Thus it wont make any difference to the availablity of car parking slots. 


So what can we do instead?  


1) I suggests that the seasonal parking tickets may not be oversold. Tickets should be based on the number of carpark spaces for example one carpark may have 100 parking space so the management should only sell equal or sllightly more than 100 seasonal parking tickets and overselling those tickets may end up in not enough parking spaces. 


2) Those motorists who parked with seasonal parking spaces without seasonal parking tickets should be awarded with a heavier penalty and fine so that it can deter those motorists in parking from those places so that they would be more available parking space. 


Just merely increasing the price will not solve the problem.