vivocity carpark

It was really terrible. It was a 6pm show and 6pm we just reached Keppel road. When we turned into vivocity carpark, it was 615pm. Our movie was Indiana Jones and logically it supposed to start at 620pm(minus the ads).

Iinitially i thought we were JIT(just in time). However, my heart sunk when i enter the carpark. It was jammed. First was some funny peopl stopping halfway to let people alight along the way entering the carpark gantry. Then was the terrible jam inside. Look at my self drawn picture. See the problem? The problem is located at Area A. ALL arrows drawn indicate a ONE Way traffic.

Cars entering each level of the carpark, could either turn LEFT to enter carpark and park their cars, or try their luck to wait at the level. For those who do not wish to, and will like to drvie further up, may go straight, then turn RIGHT and drive UPWARD.

For those who already PARKED at that level and were leaving, they could ONLY drive thru the one way road and go DOWNWARDs, by passing Area A.

And here's the problem. What about those who do not want to join in the 'queue' and want to go to the upper levels? and what about those, who 'toured' the current level of the carpark, found no empty slots and will like to go further up also? ALL of them have to JOIN those who are LEAVING the carpark and stuck at AREA A., due to the jam. Those going up or down will be stuck and look around helplessly.

For those leaving, well, the jam was started due to people leaving, and the exit barrier(ERP) is rather slow in reaction, plus the heavy traffic around the area, thats why it has heavy jam. So its fair enough. But for those entering the carpark, its really ridiculous for them to 'join' in the congestion for nothiner.

Actually 2 ways to solve this thing. Draw yellow box at area A. So that there is space for those to go up, to by pass the congestion.

Second way is to draw lines at area A, indicating those SELFISH peeps, to make way for those going up. The one way path is rather wide, and if these peeps are considerate enough not to occupy the WHOLE driveway, then people going up would have no problem.

Level 6,7 of the carpark got PLENTY of parking slots. But alas, i was held up at level 3,4,5 due to these problems. We reached the cinema at 650pm. missed 30 mins of the show. Haiz.