HUSBAND and wife own a car each.
For work, they go off in their separate cars from their five-room flat in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5.
But during their weekends, they stick to public transport.
Mr Eric Kwek, 55, a civil servant said:
"Traffic can get quite busy on weekends when we go downtown. So we choose to take the MRT instead since we live near the MRT station."
Plus, they save on petrol too.
"Both our cars are only used for work. We hardly drive anywhere else," he said, adding that they don't venture to too many places for leisure.
Mr Kwek, whose wife is also a civil servant, said they each earn $9,000 a month.
Both leave for work before 7am. Mr Kwek works in the Serangoon area and his wife works in Ang Mo Kio.
To avoid having to ferry each other to their individual workplaces and risk reaching work late, the couple decided to
get a second car.
"It used to be very inconvenient having only one car. My appointments had to be cut short when I needed to fetch my wife to important appointments of her own.
"With two cars, this problem is solved," he said.
The couple own two sedans - one a Mazda and the other a Toyota. They have a 21-year-old son, an NSF who "spends most of his time in camp and doesn't drive".
Carparking expenses: About $130 a month on season parking and $400 a month on petrol in total for both cars.
Mr Kwek said he's never had problems finding a parking lot for his second car.
He currently has two season parking tickets for his estate's surface carpark, both of which cost $65 each.
His view: "It's the newer estates, I think, that have parking lot shortages. There are more homes than parking lots.
"I think they should design more parking lots for residents in these newer residential areas."
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For work, they go off in their separate cars from their five-room flat in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5.
But during their weekends, they stick to public transport.
Mr Eric Kwek, 55, a civil servant said:
"Traffic can get quite busy on weekends when we go downtown. So we choose to take the MRT instead since we live near the MRT station."
Plus, they save on petrol too.
"Both our cars are only used for work. We hardly drive anywhere else," he said, adding that they don't venture to too many places for leisure.
Mr Kwek, whose wife is also a civil servant, said they each earn $9,000 a month.
Both leave for work before 7am. Mr Kwek works in the Serangoon area and his wife works in Ang Mo Kio.
To avoid having to ferry each other to their individual workplaces and risk reaching work late, the couple decided to
get a second car.
"It used to be very inconvenient having only one car. My appointments had to be cut short when I needed to fetch my wife to important appointments of her own.
"With two cars, this problem is solved," he said.
The couple own two sedans - one a Mazda and the other a Toyota. They have a 21-year-old son, an NSF who "spends most of his time in camp and doesn't drive".
Carparking expenses: About $130 a month on season parking and $400 a month on petrol in total for both cars.
Mr Kwek said he's never had problems finding a parking lot for his second car.
He currently has two season parking tickets for his estate's surface carpark, both of which cost $65 each.
His view: "It's the newer estates, I think, that have parking lot shortages. There are more homes than parking lots.
"I think they should design more parking lots for residents in these newer residential areas."
http://motoring.asiaone.com/Motoring/Owners/Others/Story/A1Story20100824-233653.html
