GSM8 wrote:PNGMK wrote:So do we not build infrastructure?
I suppose one thing that occurred to be me about the article that is that sometimes changes in profiteering motives result in good infrastructure projects getting defunded/abandoned. On the flip side some of these projects may not have been viable in the first place but got funded due to political priorities. Lastly, inadequately thorough feasibility studies might result in unsustainable developments. From what I've seen so far though Singapore doesn't currently fall into any of these categories. But less could probably be said about some of the other countries around.
I don't see the connection between say London 100 years ago and the
Perfectopore of today.
It's not 'profiteering motives', it's demographics. People live in big place, over a generation+ decide to move to new area, old area stagnate, shops close, cinemas close, stations close, and so on. Can't happen here of course where 6 million people live crowded onto a pin-head.
You cannot compare. Some of these stations, say in London, date back to 1850. What was SG then, a single mud hut?