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, will also provide parking spaces for motorcycles from early next month, the government has announced.
Currently, the carpark comprises 61 parking spaces for cars and 10 spaces for heavy vehicles, without parking spaces for motorcycles.
From early next month, according to a statement by the Transport Bureau (DSAT) earlier this week, the carpark will comprise 73 parking spaces for cars, 50 spaces for motorbikes, and five spaces for heavy vehicles.
Moreover, the statement also announced that the carpark, where vehicles are currently charged on an hourly basis, will be operated with a half-hourly fee system from Wednesday next week, when parking fees will be calculated every 30 minutes, instead of every 60 minutes currently.
The open-air public carpark, located outside the former Macau Jockey Club, opened in December in 2023 when there were 41 parking spaces for cars and 17 spaces for heavy vehicles. Due to the low usage rate of the carpark’s parking area for heavy vehicles, the bureau converted seven parking spaces for heavy vehicles into 20 spaces for cars in May last year 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 along the now-defunct Macau Jockey Club, Estrada Governador Albano de Oliveira is a two-way road connecting an area near the Ocean Gardens residential 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.
The DSAT statement said that with the aim of meeting motorbike riders and car drivers’ need to park their vehicles, the government is carrying out a project to set up parking spaces for motorcycles and further increase the number of parking spaces for cars in the open-air public carpark by converting some of its parking spaces for heavy vehicles into ones for motorcycles and cars.
The statement said that the project will be completed early month when 50 parking spaces for motorcycles will be newly set up, while the number of parking spaces for cars will be increased from 61 to 73. The number of parking spaces for heavy vehicles will be decreased from 10 to 5.
After the open-air public carpark’s half-hourly fee system takes effect at 00:00 a.m. on Wednesday next week, the statement noted, cars will be charged four patacas per 30 minutes during the day (from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.) and two patacas per 30 minutes during the night (from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. the next day), while heavy vehicles will be charged five patacas per 30 minutes during the day and 2.5 patacas per 30 minutes during the night.
After the open-air public carpark’s parking spaces for motorcycles come into use early next month, motorcycles will be charged one pataca per 30 minutes during the day and 50 avos [cents] per 30 minutes during the night.
This photo taken on Wednesday shows cars parked in the Estrada Governador Albano de Oliveira Carpark in Taipa, with a project underway to convert some of its parking spaces for heavy vehicles into ones for motorcycles and cars. – Photo: Tony Wong
