FAPee Bitch: New Lifts Increase Operating Costs

[makapaaa]

SURE, ONLY IF THE FAPEE TRAITORS CUT CORNERS, SO THAT NEW LIFTS BREAK DOWN MORE OFTEN THAN OLD LIFTS. INDEED, ISN'T THIS WHAT MANY RESIDENTS HAVE EXPERIENCED?
Jun 17, 2010

Low 'oversimplifying'

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SENIOR Minister of State (National Development) Grace Fu yesterday rebutted opposition MP Low Thia Khiang's arguments on why non-PAP town councils did not do well in a recent report card on the way they manage their estates.
She said he was 'overly simplifying the situation' when he argued that estate upgrading impacts on how well a town council (TC) performs in the maintenance of a Housing Board estate.
For instance, new lifts installed in older blocks will add to the responsibilities and operational costs of town councils, she said.
She stressed that all TCs, whether run by the People's Action Party or the opposition, are treated the same when it comes to estate upgrading.
Citing her own ward in Jurong GRC, she said: 'In my own division, if my flats have not reached that age where they are eligible for upgrading, then it won't get it either.'
Ms Fu's response is the latest in a war of words between the duo. It started with the release of the first Town Council Management Report (TCMR) last Thursday, which graded the performance of all 16 TCs in Singapore.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
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[shelltox]

The operation cost of the lift would go up as the lift have to stop at every level, there are more lifts now. Compare previously whereby a normal HDB block would have only 2 lifts now there could an additional 2 lifts. Definitely the daily operating and maintenance cost would increase. Further, in order to lower the cost of the lifts, HDB is using lifts manufacture in China, in the long run these lifts are going to incur higher replacement and repair cost. Previously, the lifts were supplied mainly by Fijitec.