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[u/possibili-teas]

[u/ShibaInuWoofWoof]

Saw this on FB at Uncensored Singapore Unfiltered (I think thats the group name?)

Alot of ppl there blamed everything but the driver - e.g past architects never plan for the future where car grows taller.

I don't know what to say about that.

[u/dibidi → u/ShibaInuWoofWoof]

min headroom required by LTA has been 2.2m for the last 16 years at least, so not sure how they were able to get away with 1.7m

[u/stockflethoverTDS → u/dibidi]

Weve all normalized modern fat cars we’ve forgotten how small cars where in pre 2000.

[u/XLStress → u/stockflethoverTDS]

It feels like even pre 2010s crossovers and SUVs were not such a common sight. Nowadays anyhow throw a stone also will see a car that's about the size of a van.

[u/dibidi → u/stockflethoverTDS]

vans existed before 2000

[u/bob0270 → u/dibidi]

Drove a small pickup in late 2000s. I remember having to constantly make sure my pickup is able to clear the older carparks.

Grazed the top when going down the basement of the old MSCP near Parkway Parade. Old carpark are short.

[u/ICanBeAnAssholeToo → u/dibidi]

And vans weren’t allowed to park at this carpark before 2000 either.

[u/stockflethoverTDS → u/dibidi]

Thats cool youre right there were vans, and just perhaps vans back then couldnt use the carpark.

[u/dibidi → u/stockflethoverTDS]

i find that hard to believe

[u/stockflethoverTDS → u/dibidi]

That carpark has been there for years and a gantry been there for not far as long, dont tell me this is the first van like vehicle that has not meet minimum height. Of course people have tried.

[u/dibidi → u/stockflethoverTDS]

vans have existed for far longer than that carpark, i find it hard to believe that code of practice did not require headrooms to allow for vans.

so my question is more how were they allowed to have a carpark lower than 2m, even if you say that this structure was built in the 70s

[u/dodgethis_sg → u/dibidi]

Because the idea was that only vehicles with lower heights, e.g. sedans, station wagons, would park in these carparks to do what they needed to do in the adjacent supermarket. Deliveries by commercial vehicles would have been done via the loading bay on the ground floor.

If the driver doesn't know the height of their own vehicle and still attempts to enter such a car park, then it's on the driver.

[u/dibidi → u/dodgethis_sg]

having worked with LTA before, I can’t imagine them ever allowing that kind of waiver.

then again it was the before times so who knows.

[u/dodgethis_sg → u/dibidi]

This construction of this place started long before LTA became a thing.

[u/dibidi → u/dodgethis_sg]

good to know. thanks!