Roads in a dozen more private landed estates will be cleaned by road-sweeping vehicles in 2025 to cut cleaning times and manpower needs.
They will join 33 other private estates where road-sweeping vehicles have been deployed as part of a programme launched by the National Environment Agency (NEA) in 2019.
It is part of the Alternate Roadside Parking programme, where NEA works with neighbourhood committees (NCs) in private estates to encourage residents to park their vehicles on one side of the road on certain days, so mechanised road sweepers can clean the other side unimpeded.
Then, on the next scheduled cleaning day, residents are supposed to park on the alternate side, so the rest of the road can be cleaned.
A news report said in 2019 that there were some 200 NCs islandwide. NCs are grassroots organisations that serve private estates.
Before 2019, all roads in private landed estates were swept manually by cleaners.
NEA said the new method of cleaning has cut cleaning times by 50 to 80 per cent. It also added that residents report that their estates are now cleaner.
In the Mayfair Park estate in Bukit Timah, a road-sweeping vehicle takes about 20 minutes to clean Jalan Wajek, which is roughly 300m-long.
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