Parking charges are levied to recover part of the cost of providing and maintaining HDB car parks. As it costs more to provide and maintain MSCPs compared to surface car parks, the monthly season parking rate is generally higher for MSCPs.  

 

Some precincts are served by both surface car parks and MSCPs. As the surface lots are generally nearer to the flats, they are understandably more popular. In some instances, this imbalance in demand has resulted in congestion in some surface car parks while the MSCPs are under-utilised. In these car parks, one of HDB’s measures to regulate and even out the parking demand is to equalise the monthly parking charges between the surface and multi-storey car parks.  However, HDB has no plans to implement island-wide equalisation of season parking charges as there is no widespread imbalance in parking demand today.