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Nov 29, 2009
Lift upgrading woes
By Ang Yiying
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Some of the 42 affected residents in Block 411, 415 and 417 in Eunos Road 5 refused to accept any of the four options offered over the weekend by the HDB in its latest bid to solve the problem. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
<!-- story content : start --> THE offer was laid on the negotiation tables by the HDB. But a group of Eunos residents who have been unhappy for years over an external lift shaft which blocks their homes are refusing to budge. Some of the 42 affected residents in Block 411, 415 and 417 in Eunos Road 5 refused to accept any of the four options offered over the weekend by the HDB in its latest bid to solve the problem. Some of them crossed out all the options with marker pens and wrote on the form that they were still not happy with the olive branches offered. Some want the offending lift shafts totally torn down instead. These Eunos residents face a rather unique problem because of the way the three blocks were constructed. Each block is in a U-shape and the two staircases are located at both ends of the U while existing lifts are located in the middle. Because odd-numbered floors do not share a common corridor - the building combines double-storey maisonettes with single story corner units - just upgrading the existing lift shafts was not sufficient to give all units lift access. When the estate went through a lift-upgrading programme started in early 2008, the two additional lift shafts per block could not be built facing a staircase like how it is done with most other HDB blocks.
Read the full report in Monday's edition of The Straits Times.
