Sengkang Kopitiam Parking

[Picanto]

F YOU park your car at Kopitiam Square in Sengkang, be sure to leave the carpark within an hour. Otherwise, you might find yourself not being able to get out of the carpark - unless you have a Kopitiam card.

 

 

What's more, you need to buy the card to drive out of the carpark.

 

This unusual parking payment system has been in place at Kopitiam Square - which is next to the Sengkang MRT station and Compass Point Shopping Centre - since it opened in December 2009.

 

The Kopitiam card costs $10, with an initial stored value of $8. Cardholders are entitled to 5 per cent discount at the wet market and 10 per cent off at the food centre.

 

At Kopitiam Square, drivers can enter the carpark with a normal cash card but require a Kopitiam card to tap out if they leave after an hour. There is no charge for the first hour.

 

Kopitiam owns the two-storey building. The carpark is one level above the food centre and wet market.

 

But some patrons, thinking they can use a normal cash card to enter and leave, have been caught unawares, though there is a sign at the entrance of the carpark that says "Kopitiam Card Parking Only".

[Picnic06-Biante15]

Thanks for the information.

[Mcf777]

borrow the KPT card that is behind yr car and pay the amount to them.

dont need to buy new card.

[Picnic06-Biante15]

Nowadays, its seem like we have to carry an extra card in our wallet...............

 

The Kopitiam Card ...........

 

GOV should put a stop to this. If every shopping centre, private buildings and Car park own by different companies follow Kopitiam style, couldn't imagine the number of cards we had to carry inside our car......

[Dafansu]

this place almost empty, still got people come here?

[Picanto]

this place almost empty, still got people come here?

 

 

of course. if not it would have shut down already

[Mcf777]

park there to enjoy the 1st hr free car park charges and it charged by per minute.

so it is still cheaper compare to compass point.

[Dafansu]

of course. if not it would have shut down already

 

it's shutting down soon

[Picanto]

it's shutting down soon

 

how you know?

 

[Dafansu]

park there to enjoy the 1st hr free car park charges and it charged by per minute.

so it is still cheaper compare to compass point.

 

that's what a lot of people have been doing

[Darryn]

park there to enjoy the 1st hr free car park charges and it charged by per minute.

so it is still cheaper compare to compass point.

 

+1.

 

I always park there to take kidlet to dance class on Saturday. First hour free and easier than Sengkang Mall.

 

First time I was all :angry: but now I think is pretty groovy.

 

Anyway keep and use the card for the discount. Have one for me in the car, and MIL holds one also (downstairs our house got kopitiam) so that she buys food and I top up card for her...got discount some more.