The Transport Bureau (DSAT) plans to convert three parking spaces for heavy vehicles into 50 spaces for motorcycles in Macau’s first and only open-air public carpark, located on Taipa’s Estrada Governador Albano de Oliveira near its junction with Avenida de Kwong Tung, according to a DSAT statement yesterday.
The statement did not mention when the new measure is expected to get off the ground.
Currently, the carpark comprises 61 parking spaces for cars and 10 spaces for heavy vehicles, without parking spaces for motorcycles.
The open-air public carpark, located outside the former Macau Jockey Club, opened on December 11 last year when there were 41 parking spaces for cars and 17 spaces for heavy vehicles. Since then, its parking area for cars had normally been busy, but its parking area for heavy vehicles had hardly been used at all, because of which, the bureau converted seven parking spaces for heavy vehicles into 20 spaces for cars on May 14, when the number of parking spaces for cars was increased from 41 to 61, while the number of parking spaces for heavy vehicles was decreased from 17 to 10.
Running alongside the now-defunct Macau Jockey Club, 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 dual carriageways are separated by a central area.
The outdoor carpark is located in 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.
According to yesterday’s statement, DSAT officials had a meeting with members of the government-appointed Traffic Consultative Council on Monday where the officials briefed the members about the bureau’s plan to convert some of the Estrada Governador Albano de Oliveira Open-air Public Carpark’s parking spaces for heavy vehicles into ones for motorcycles.
The statement underlined that with the aim of meeting motorbike riders’ need to park their vehicles, the bureau is planning to convert three of the open-air public carpark’s 10 parking spaces for heavy vehicles into ones for motorcycles, because of which the carpark will be able to provide 50 parking spaces for motorcycles, while seven parking spaces will be kept for heavy vehicles.
The statement noted that the open-air public carpark’s “second adjustment” of its distribution of parking spaces will keep the number of spaces for cars unchanged at 61.
New bus stop outside Macao Union Hospital
Meanwhile, yesterday’s statement also said that the bureau will set up a new public bus stop on Estrada do Istmo, outside the new Macao Union Hospital.
The avenue in central Cotai, informally known as Cotai Strip, connects Taipa and Coloane.
The statement did not mention when the new bus stop will come into service.
The statement noted that because of the new measure, public buses on 14 routes that currently travel on Estrada do Istmo en route to Coloane will stop outside the large Macao Union Hospital.
Currently, only five public bus routes serve the Macao Union Hospital, namely routes 35, 50, H3, MT4 and N5, but with bus stops at other locations outside the hospital, not on the Taipa-Coloane Estrada do Istmo.
After its ongoing trial operation which started in December last year, the large-scale Macao Union Hospital will officially open on September 16.
The new Light Rail Transit (LRT) Seac Pai Van section, which is scheduled to open at the end of this year, has two stations – one on Estrada do Istmo outside the Macao Union Hospital and the other one outside Coloane’s sprawling Seac Pai Van public housing community.
This photo taken in late May shows cars parked in the Estrada Governador Albano de Oliveira Open-air Public Carpark outside the now-defunct Macau Jockey Club in Taipa. – Photo courtesy of TDM
