If you guys cannot see the picture unfolding, you are clearly being sold a very discreetly successful brainwashing ideology. Just taking the morning train from any direction or MRT station will tell us what the unfolding problem really is about. Sure, building more MRT lines and stations will spread out the crowd, but never forget that all roads probably lead to Rome. There are destinations that the morning crowd are mostly headed to on all trains. Of course, they have the best brains outthinking ordinary beans like me.
Punggol is a clear example of what is unfolding, quietly and without real desperation yet. It is a small constituency built on the believe that problems can be solved as always like in the past. The situation is now so well camouflaged that they have tried to resolve with the deceptively free MRT rides in the morning, to take morning traffic on MRT trains away from the peak hours between 7.30 to 9.30 am. As the town develops and people move in, this is going to make MRT travel along the North-East MRT line really problematic. Worse still is building a university and a digital district for tech firms at Punggol Coast. That raises the question of what is to happen with the free rides in the morning over the longer term. Is it going to be a permanent feature? What about other MRT lines experiencing bottlenecks as more transfers are added, with the Cross Island Line feeding into stations that are already breaking.
I have no idea what is to happen with a ten million population because I have never envisioned or hope that it will happen. Singapore island is growing with land being reclaimed. But the issue of overcrowding is going to remain, permanently whether you live on Pulau Ubin, any of the southern islands or reclaimed land.
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Fully agreed. The big elephant in the room is "over crowding" this small island. Yet the white ruler will said we are anti-Indian/PRC, but never admit that the quality of life here will deteriorate once it is over crowded. White ruler only know how to increase population to grow GDP and enrich themselves.
ReplyDeleteFunny thing is they always asked for feedback, but how many times have feedback given produce tangible results? Wasn't much feedback already given regarding population increase, yet quietly the feedback has been pushed into the background because peasants know nothing. Such calls are just legitimizing the system to show how caring the Government is listening to the ground, nothing more.
ReplyDeleteSingaporean's only avenue to have any say is in the vote they held in their hands. Yet, most are merely going along with the merry-go-round and doing the five-yearly pilgrimage, like going to Mecca, Vatican and Lumbini.
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ReplyDeleteActually Mr RB's blog woke up the White Rulers quite a bit if you really go thru some of the past posts on Sinkeland.
Now the Papies are saying that this coming NDRally PeeAyam gonna talk about helping families cope with their children in this difficult environment
Also, they talked about channelling five year plans to lead and guidance for the next generation educational system.
Etc etc etc
Without RB's blog of some posts by our active contributers.that gave their insights and valuable opinions, they took these into considerations and tried to make some changes
But most of.the time they just NATO.
No Action Talk Only
PAP stands for 'People's Action Party'. Who are the people is the question. Not you and certainly not me. Your say is as good as no say.
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