Excuse me Mr or Ms Architect, are you a driver too?

If you have been to the new Geylang Serai Market, and decided to park your car at the market itself, you would definitely enter through the "wrong" lane and then reversed to go to the right lane. I wonder who design the entry and exit of that carpark, as the person who does that definitely has no sense of direction of the Singapore road system, and the supervisor who approved the plan is no less goondu. Unless you are in America, then it's ok to enter from the right lane. But here, we usually turn left into the left lane not right but this is not the case for the new Geylang Serai Market. When we turn left, we had to enter via the right lane instead to enter the carpark and if you did not know or not careful, you will move head on with the cars coming out of the carpark because the vehicles would be crisscrossing lanes. The cars exiting the car park should exit on their left but no, they exit on the right.

This reminds me of a story that an ex-colleague cum old friend told me about. At that time, her younger sister was studying to be an architect, and though their mum insisted that she should learn how to drive, younger sister was resistant. So mum said that, "if you don't drive, you will not know how to design car parks." And their mom words continue to echo in my ear whenever I enter a shopping mall with badly designed carparks. Whenever that happens, I will tell hubby that the architect is not a driver, and the supervisor sleeps on his job.