Macau’s first open-air public carpark, which is located on Taipa’s Estrada Governador Albano de Oliveira near its junction with Avenida de Kwong Tung, opened on Monday.
The new carpark has 41 car parking spaces and 17 for heavy vehicles.
Previously, public carparks in the city were all located indoors.
Running along the Macau Jockey Club (MJC), Estrada Governador Albano de Oliveira is a two-way road connecting an area near the Ocean Gardens estate and the Macau Stadium complex. The road’s two directions are separated by a central area.
A new law regulating public parking, which took effect on August 1 this year, enables the government to set up open-air public carparks.
The new public-parking law replaces the previous public-parking administrative regulation (by-law) which was promulgated in 2003.
The previous public-parking administrative regulation defined carparks as buildings used for parking vehicles, because of which the government could not set up open-air public carparks.
According to the new public-parking law, public carparks can be set up either in buildings or on open-air plots of land, which, consequently, allows the government to set up outdoor public carparks.
The new carpark, which came into operation on Monday, is located on a central area of Estrada Governador Albano de Oliveira near its junction with Avenida de Kwong Tung, i.e., outside the Nam San Garden residential estate.
The project to turn the area into the new carpark started in September this year.
In the new open-air carpark, cars are charged eight patacas per hour during the day (from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.) and four patacas per hour during the night (from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. the next day), while heavy vehicles are charged 10 patacas per hour during the day and five patacas per hour during the night.
Different to other general indoor public carparks, drivers using the new Estrada Governador Albano de Oliveira Open-air Public Carpark can only pay their parking fees by e-payment channels under normal circumstances, unless when its entrance and exit gates are malfunctioning, in which case the drivers can pay their parking fees at the ticket booth in cash or by e-payment.
Three e-payment channels are accepted for the new open-air carpark, namely Macau Pass, MPay, and UnionPay’s Quick Pass, according to a Transport Bureau (DSAT) statement last week.
This photo taken yesterday shows cars parked on the new Estrada Governador Albano de Oliveira Open-air Public Carpark outside the Macau Jockey Club in Taipa. – Photo: Tony Wong
