Based on photos from Google Maps, Chuan Walk is a wide public road with no yellow lines and a broken center line. In other words, no one person or their grandfather ‘owns’ the road and anyone can park along the road as long as it does not obstruct traffic.
A ‘self-entitled’ note
However, a woman who parked there was told otherwise by way of a note allegedly sent by a resident in the vicinity of Chuan Walk.
Sandy (not her real name), parked along Chuan Walk for 3 days from about 7.00pm Sunday, 29 January 2023 to Wednesday, 1 February 2023.
She parked her car there as it was near a block of HDB flats where her mother stayed. As her partner was overseas for a work trip, she stayed over at her mother’s place for a few days.
When she came back to her car on Wednesday, she saw that someone placed a handwritten note on her vehicle.
The wrote read ‘You don’t belong this neighbourhood. Please remove your car.’
Sandy’s husband, Andy (not his real name), said the note reflected ‘appalling behaviour’.
‘How can someone possible be so self-entitled to think that a wide public road, with no yellow lines and a broken center line belongs to themselves only! I bristle even as I type this email. Such appalling behaviour.’
Man expressed ‘indignant anger’
Although Sandy expressed ‘resignation’ over the way society is in Singapore, Andy reacted with ‘indignant anger’.
He told Wake Up Singapore that, as a tax paying resident in Singapore who also pays his share of road tax and COE, they have every right to park along a public road like Chuan Walk.
He also took offence at the author’s use of the word ‘neighbourhood’ as, in his view, this ‘implied some sort of hidden class warfare’.
Andy expressed disbelief that someone would feel so self-entitled that they would have no qualms about penning such a note.
I could not believe that in Singapore, someone would feel so self-entitled and have to qualms writing a note like this. Since the incident and having discussed it with some friends, I guess we were all really disappointed at how stratified Singapore society truly is.
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