Written Reply to Parliamentary Question on Government Advisories on Funding by Private Developments for Sheltered Walkways that Connect to Nearest Bus Stops

Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song asked the Minister for Transport whether LTA issues letters or advisories to residential Management Corporation Strata Titles informing them that they are expected to fund the construction of sheltered walkways that link their developments to the nearest bus stop when requested by their residents, even if such walkways are located on land that is managed by LTA.

Reply by Minister for Transport Chee Hong Tat:

1.     When commercial and residential developers request LTA to build covered linkways which do not fall under LTA’s provision guidelines, LTA has worked with these developers to fund their own covered linkways beyond their developments to existing linkways or to transport nodes. Some LTA officers had erroneously applied this practice to condominium MCSTs without considering the provisions of the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act, and had advised a number of MCSTs incorrectly to fund covered linkways outside of their strata boundary in response to their requests. The officers should not have done so, and LTA has implemented measures to avoid such errors in future.