why can't hdb put lifts for every floor in the lst place?

[leetahbar]

are those hdb big indian chiefs sadistic knowing that most live in the pigeonholes and majority are aging very fast?

Oct 19, 2009
Most HDBs will get lifts
By Nur Dianah Suhaimi

Senior Minister of State for National Development Grace Fu said the solutions include installing shaftless lifts, smaller lifts for low-rise blocks, and reconfigured lift access for blocks with lift landings halfway between floors. -- PHOTO: BH

ONLY 200 out of some 5,300 HDB blocks built before 1990 will not be getting lifts that stop at every floor.

They do not qualify for the Lift Upgrading Programme (LUP) because it would cost more than $30,000 per unit to install a lift in these blocks.

This is in spite of innovative and cost-effective solutions by the Housing Development Board to bring costs down, Parliament heard on Monday.

Senior Minister of State for National Development Grace Fu said these solutions include installing shaftless lifts, smaller lifts for low-rise blocks, and reconfigured lift access for blocks with lift landings halfway between floors.

She was responding to a question from Mr Christopher De Souza (Holland-Bukit Timah GRC), who asked for the number of HDB blocks that do not qualify for lift upgrading owing to cost issues.

When the lift upgrading programme was introduced eight years ago, almost 1,000 blocks - or one in five - failed to qualify for lift upgrading because it would have been too expensive.

Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.

 

[leetahbar]

if hdb had implemented lifts for every floor, they would ve saved the money and made the construction easier and more efficient.

why purposely put lifts only on certain floors and later using LUP to extort more money from peasants? doesn't this of doing things of putting the carriage infront of the horse something very stupid and extremely sadistic?

during LUP, it creates very messy inconvenience to peasants. it's damn bloody noisy, dusty and dirty.

if they had implemented it during the initial construction of the flats, don't this solve all the problems before it even could be noted?

it seems that this is a sinister plot by paps to slowly give a false impression that they are "concerned and take care" of peasants. in the first place, wasn't it them who created all these unnecessary problems?

[They do not qualify for the Lift Upgrading Programme (LUP) because it would cost more than $30,000 per unit to install a lift in these blocks.]

they wanted to save $30k but later who end up paying more money? us, the conned and sadistised peasants!:oIo:

WE MUSTN'T BE MADE TO PAY FOR THEIR DESIGN FLAWS.

it's about time some hdb heads should start rolling beginning with malboro shortie tan!

 

[congo9]

Isnt it the responsible of the goverment to take care of itw own ppl ?? TOO EXPENSIVE ?