MR MOHD Shabirin Ariffin visits his parents at their Jurong East HDB flat almost every day.

The television channel promotions manager takes his two-year-old daughter Safia Nabila to play with her grandparents. On some nights, they even stay over.

Where he used to worry about preparing parking coupons for night-long stays, Mr Mohd Shabirin now uses a half-price season parking ticket.

The Housing Board introduced the Family Season Parking Ticket Scheme on Oct 1 so that family members can visit each other without worrying about the cost of parking.

The scheme allows HDB residents to buy a second season parking ticket for family members at half price - $32.50.

For multi-storey carparks, the savings are even bigger with $90 parking tickets going at $45.

Since the scheme started, about 2,800 motorists have bought family season parking tickets.

An HDB spokesman said about 85 per cent of the tickets sold so far were for parking at the carparks of parents' and in-laws' flats.

The rest were for parking at the homes of children, siblings, grandparents and other relatives.

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