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Cheng San CC the first to provide PMD lockers

Singapore — Ang Mo Kio has taken another step towards becoming Singapore’s first walking and cycling town.

PM Lee Hsien Loong (centre) viewing the PMD lockers at Cheng San Community Club. Photo: Wee Teck Hian

PM Lee Hsien Loong (centre) viewing the PMD lockers at Cheng San Community Club. Photo: Wee Teck Hian

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Singapore — Ang Mo Kio has taken another step towards becoming Singapore’s first walking and cycling town.

Given the growing number of residents zipping around on electric unicycles and kick scooters, Cheng San Community Club (CC) is now equipped with lockers for such personal mobility devices (PMDs). The lockers, which come in three different sizes for PMDs up to 1.2 metres tall, were introduced yesterday at a road safety event and can be used free until May 1.

Charges will apply thereafter, determined by usage rates and residents’ feedback during the free trial.

Mr Ang Hin Kee, Member of Parliament for the area, said the lockers were installed based on feedback: “Many residents who come to community clubs to attend classes come using PMDs ... It’s very inconvenient to carry these into the classrooms or dance studios. So they’ve ... asked, ‘Can I have locker facilities?’”

The lockers will also offer commuters an option to store their PMDs and continue their journey on public transport, especially during inclement weather.

“(The CC) is next to the MRT station, so whether users come to the CC or are en route to other places ... they can just ride here, leave it here and move on,” said Mr Ang. “So it’s dual serving — serving users of the CC as well as the MRT station.”

Feedback will also be gathered to assess whether having lockers in other parts of the constituency, such as institutes of higher learning and other CCs, could be useful to residents.

Ang Mo Kio resident Steven Khoo, who uses an e-scooter to run errands at weekends, said the CC’s lockers are useful but should be more prominent: “I thought they were just SingPost POPStations — couldn’t tell that they were for PMDs.” He also suggested that sports and swimming complexes should have these lockers.

Mr Samuel Yuan, a PMD user living in Punggol, said he may consider using such lockers if they were available in his estate and he were buying things: “I might use them if I have my hands full. If not, I’d rather save my money.”

The Ang Mo Kio Town Council is now working with the authorities to ramp up the number of bicycle parking lots, in anticipation of greater demand as the second phase of the town’s designated cycle path nears completion.

Last year, it launched a pilot of bike parking lots at a bus stop serving the Cactus Sunrise private estate along Yio Chu Kang Road.

Plans to transform Ang Mo Kio into a model walking and cycling town were first announced in December 2014.

A 4-km cycle path looping around Ang Mo Kio Avenues 1, 3 and 8, for seamless connectivity from Ang Mo Kio MRT station to Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park, was unveiled last July.

When completed in 2019, the 20-km cycle path network will be the longest in any residential town, with every home in the town within a five-minute walking distance of the nearest path.

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