Wah...LTA say road not under them but under HBD. HDB took months to reply and said that paint not left by them or their contractors. After many months, nothing left to prove otherwise isn't it?
Car splattered with paint from the road
By Tony Ng
Was this "paint job" caused by paint from lane markings on our roads?
Mr Felix Chung, aged 28, seems to think so. An associate manager, Mr Chung told AsiaOne he was driving to work when the accidental paint job occurred.
His car was "splattered with the paint on the road".
Mr Chung said the incident occurred along Bedok North Road, towards the direction of Tampines Avenue 10.
On first glance, the paint marks on Mr Chung's car looked no different from m&d stains.
But these stains are too stubborn to be removed by any other way except a respray job.
Mr Chung initially thought the paint marks could be washed off or polished away but they remained after many attempts of doing so.
He even bought an eraser sponge from a car accessories shop that claimed to be able to remove paint marks.
Eventually some paint was removed.
But some areas were too difficult to reach and other sections of the paint were too thick to remove, Mr Chung lamented.
To remove the accidental "paint job" would mean a respray job in the workshop, said Mr Chung. That would cost $1,000-$2,000, he said.
The photographs Mr Chung sent in to AsiaOne showed a road with a stretch of similar paint markings, as if a vehicle had accidentally dropped some paint onto it.
Mr Chung said he has seen many such cases of paint spillage on the roads and they were "paint for the lane markings on the roads."
Subsequently, he e-mailed the Land Transport Authority (LTA) to seek a reply on the matter.
He also requested for compensation for the damage done to the car's paintwork.
But the LTA referred the case to the Housing Development Board (HDB), claiming that the stretch of road was not under their care.
After that, Mr Chung said the government agencies simply "pushed the ball" around for a few months, before a HDB representative replied that the puddle of paint was not left behind by HDB or its contractors.
Its public liability insurer, NTUC Income also concluded that the damage was accidental and unforeseeable.
Mr Chung conveyed that he is at his wits' end on what to do.
