Mass Fining opposite Grand Cathay bldg Sat night 10/5

[silverstein]

i also wanted to park there on the same day u got summoned.. then i saw countless bikes got love letter then i cabot to PS..

[seekie]

i kena there before. parked there for few times as i was studying at the mdis beside the long john there (night class after work). if i were to park at ps and walk to mdis there i will be late for school for 10min+.

 

the fine is indeed $70 if i remember correctly. took awhile to come though.

no 1st warning, no understanding, just fine it. just like a school of fish that got hauled up the net. good harvest.

unfortunately thats the way it is.

 

anyway like others say, i dont patronise that new cathay since they fail to register bikers as potential customers.

[arsie]

Actually, should have a petition signed to send to Cathay, TP and ST Forum.

 

Not for car park, but to declare bikers are boycotting Cathay.

[Wankidal]

If i've mistaken, someone actually send an email to STOMP with regards to this. Thats why the authority decide to take enforcement action i guess.

[monsteramy]

STOMP is trash man... i hope dat those who always keypoh2 there one day see their own family members caught in da act.... nothing better to do izit?? biatching bout other ppl..... idiots...

[original_ss]

boycotting Cathay sia....

but i dun mind...no bikes...no us...

[fishlipps]

The way I see it, from all the past description, by now they should have put big signs there for e.g. " NO BIKES PARKING", but they still let it become unofficial parking spot so anytime can come and earn their mass bonus

[fishlipps]

i also wanted to park there on the same day u got summoned.. then i saw countless bikes got love letter then i cabot to PS..

 

Around how many kena ? Around wat time ? By the time I came out at 2 am there was only about 10 bikes with the 'love' letter haven't left yet. but when i parked at midnight, there was about 20 bike on sidewalk and about 10 on the sandy patch. I really thought they allow the parking there siah dam pirates shud have put up the parking prohibited signs by now

[silverstein]

Around how many kena ? Around wat time ? By the time I came out at 2 am there was only about 10 bikes with the 'love' letter haven't left yet. but when i parked at midnight, there was about 20 bike on sidewalk and about 10 on the sandy patch. I really thought they allow the parking there siah dam pirates shud have put up the parking prohibited signs by now

 

i reached around 1+.. should have around 30 bikes..

[nhyone]

It's silly to get fined. I realized that last year when my fines increased the running cost of my bike by over 10%!

[arsie]

Actually, this kind of thing, can call the newspaper, they might be interested in some juicy news. Maybe not Straits Times, but I think the Chinese papers quite like such stuff. Dunno about the Malay daily.

[welly]

moral of the story:if u can afford to own a bike/car,surely u can afford to pay for parking.dun stint.pls...can own the latest mobile phones but when the (HUGE) bill comes,u curse n swear

[kinwei]

There is no such thing as unofficial parking lots. If it a public pavement, you've to face the fact that you will be summon anytime. I also had been summoned there before. Of course I'm not so happy about it but decided to try my luck to appeal. It failed and I just pay. FYI, those parking on the grass patch/soil can only be summoned by NEA guys. Heard it is more costly than pavement. Those parking on pavement can only be summoned by police or TP. Those normal parking warden can only summon vehicle on parking lots or parked illegally on road side, etc double yellow line.

[YEN96]

There is no such thing as unofficial parking lots. If it a public pavement, you've to face the fact that you will be summon anytime. I also had been summoned there before. Of course I'm not so happy about it but decided to try my luck to appeal. It failed and I just pay. FYI, those parking on the grass patch/soil can only be summoned by NEA guys. Heard it is more costly than pavement. Those parking on pavement can only be summoned by police or TP. Those normal parking warden can only summon vehicle on parking lots or parked illegally on road side, etc double yellow line.

 

Looks like you quite " old bird " ..giving explanations in depth

 

wat to do ..this is a FINE country ...ppl got to pay a price.

 

Believe we as riders/drivers inevitable sometimes contribute donations to the chair-lity

[quikslvr]

y dont we petition to cathay to let bikes in? Last time vivo also dont let bikes in but i remember some1 here wrote a letter n few other ppl complain to vivo n finally they let bikes in..

[MrKan]

i also kanna

[xjrredbull]

i kinda hate to watch movie at Cathay(of formerly Picturehouse) there.The CP there doesnt allowed bikes but cars. Even for cars the passageways is small & quite worrying when monuvering.

i seldom go there as parking would be a arse, so usually i watch my movies at PS if i need to be at town. Even Cathay Orchard(opp Heeren) on a weekend, parking bikes there is like parking for summons...

Bias against bikes???or poor managements??? OR probably, they just dont care!!!

[xiaobanz]

But at least park at cathay beside still have PS which is free parking for bikes. But then on the other hand, why don't those major shopping centres accept bike parking. If they wanna charge then juz be it, but at least give us some parking space. It's super hard to find parking outside the shopping centres also man..

[NaRuTo13]

funny everyone should know parking outside park lot sure got risk.. cbd/orchard area risk even higher.. anyway cine cupon parking also hot spot for fine for not parking within the slot.. not much to complain..

 

o well we are constraint to the buidling owner that y alot of buildng dont let bike in but nothing we can do also..

 

 

saw 1 post by palmer moderator, actually in term of movie prices cathay has the best for weekday and weekend anytime.. $6 for weekday and $8 for weekend using credit or debit uob card.. which is y i only go movie to cathay and their seats are much better than gv/shaw etc.. no choice best free parking for cine is centerpoint while the cathay is ps as most people already known..

[fishlipps]

I also realise it might be the some bikers fault. If some know that spot is a fine spot, they shud not park en masse there like on weekend nights, it led the noob parking like me to mistakenly 'join the crowd'. Or at least they shud warn others not to park there. However i suspect that most ppl who park there really had the same idea as me, that it was an unofficial spot on weekend nights. So silly of me to forget that we're in such a fine country and assume that our fine people are all 1 eye only

[welly]

yeah every weekend without fail u can hordes of bikes on the pavement n it wont b surprising to realise later that there'll b a white paper slip on each bike.learn yr lesson.once bitten,twice shy.u cant afford to keep paying fines every other wk,especially not with the increasing fuel prices.how to keep cope?

[ruriimasu]

i guess the reason why they dun have bike lots are... cos they see bikers no up ba.. the things they sell there are mostly on the more expensive side. most people see bikers as trash without spending budgets. very sad.. but they failed to recognise that nowadays, quite a lot of well to do people also ride bikes for its convenience and as a very efficient transport. and by the way, most bikers have more spending power than car owners cos we are not tied up in a huge car debt! grrrr....

[Jengo]

bro, it really won't hurt la if u had juz parked at PS and walked to cathay. i got my cashcard stolen once there oso. but lucky left 1 dollar plus.

 

i wouldn't risk myself parking on the pavements. like one of the guys here said, better to have a piece of mind when watching movie then after movie come out see u got motogp ticket on ur bike.

 

cheers. juz my 10 cents. keep da change.

[kimmeng]

i also got summoned opposite the grand cathay.

saturday night also 21/6. SIAN. see you guys likedat say i dont think i should go appeal.

i even thought of going to find MP one but think i can save the trip liao.

cos most probably sure tio rejected one.

lan lan have to pay!

[Stardust83]

Actually this is not the first time i heard ppl kena fine while parking there...Wad i always do if i wanna visit The Cathay when i wanna catch a movie is that i will park at Plaza Singapura...Although it's a bit of walking distance between the 2..But no need to worry kena fine mah...lolx...