I actually feel like there is plenty of room to build more housing, I see it all over the place. Of course we want to keep some trees and nature, but there are random large empty lots in between buildings in lots of places.taxico wrote:infrastructure spending has not kept pace with developments in all areas as short term profits are important for companies spun off by the government and operated by government scholars.
the COE system was not tweaked gradually and people feel like there're now more cars than parking lots and jams on the road regularly.
perhaps it's the semblance of over-crowding - singapore can still reclaim land to make more room...
I often feel the overcrowding is mostly due to bad design choices and the never-ending, poorly planned construction projects. If you block 3/4 lanes randomly every block or two there will be traffic congestion. If you dig the same road up 5 times in 3 months it will cause problems. If you decide to build both a rail line and redo to the water canals down bukit timah rd at the same time, then yep, the road will be chaos.zzm9980 wrote:I actually feel like there is plenty of room to build more housing, I see it all over the place. Of course we want to keep some trees and nature, but there are random large empty lots in between buildings in lots of places.taxico wrote:infrastructure spending has not kept pace with developments in all areas as short term profits are important for companies spun off by the government and operated by government scholars.
the COE system was not tweaked gradually and people feel like there're now more cars than parking lots and jams on the road regularly.
perhaps it's the semblance of over-crowding - singapore can still reclaim land to make more room...
The only time I personally feel 'overcrowded' is traffic in certain areas at certain times, and same with MRT in certain areas at certain times. Pedestrian areas and malls being crowded is more the result of ignorant and spatially challenged people walking around constrained areas. Perhaps the next courtesy campaign should be called "WAKE THE F-CK UP WHEN WALKING"
A perfect small example of this... There are six or seven blocks in the corner of the estate I live in, and that corner has only two small roads in and out. When you exit one of the those two roads, you can only turn left, ejecting you onto Marine Parade road, a huge cluster f-ck of traffic. The other small road in and out? They just turned it into a one-way because of a new lift. They built the lift halfway into the road. Really? w. t. f. The "solution" is to force traffic through the multi-story car park, up the ramp, drive around, zig zagging if you actually obey the one-way signs, and then back out the other end....movingtospore wrote: I often feel the overcrowding is mostly due to bad design choices and the never-ending, poorly planned construction projects. If you block 3/4 lanes randomly every block or two there will be traffic congestion. If you dig the same road up 5 times in 3 months it will cause problems. If you decide to build both a rail line and redo to the water canals down bukit timah rd at the same time, then yep, the road will be chaos.
Or malls with bizarrely narrow walkways, tunnels, etc. And then using up vast tracts if land for things nobody ever seems to use eg/ some of the national service clubs. Manhattan is vastly more crowded than SP and yet, just seems to work better. I just don't get it. 4 years here and no further ahead than when I arrived in understanding some of the logic.
I hereby volunteer to help design the stickers for this.zzm9980 wrote:Perhaps the next courtesy campaign should be called "WAKE THE F-CK UP WHEN WALKING"
Maybe if they put all those walkways and pathways in places that made sense, they'll have more space for residences.Mi Amigo wrote:I hereby volunteer to help design the stickers for this.zzm9980 wrote:Perhaps the next courtesy campaign should be called "WAKE THE F-CK UP WHEN WALKING"![]()
A couple of weeks ago we were invited to the races at the Turf Club (a new experience for me, most enjoyable). The journey there, along the PIE, KJE and/or whatever other TLA highways we went on, seemed to take forever and once we got 'out of town' the view was mostly of trees, jungle and open spaces. I remember commenting along the lines of "So much for over-crowded Singapore." Obviously I'm not advocating the wholesale destruction of green spaces, but my point is that by carefully controlling the supply of land for building (and implying that there's a 'shortage'), the gahmen are squeezing everyone into small spaces, and helping to keep the property prices ridiculously high as a nice (for them) by-product.
I concur with the comments regarding a lack of 'joined up thinking'. There have been some spectacular civil engineering projects recently - take the Circle Line as an example. But when you come out of Stadium station and want to walk to Kallang Leisure Park, you have to make a series of 90 degree turns and zig-zag your way along paths that couldn't have been more illogically placed if they'd planned it that way. Surely they didn't actually plan it that way, right?
That's why they have the nice dirt trail through the grass...Mi Amigo wrote:I hereby volunteer to help design the stickers for this.zzm9980 wrote:Perhaps the next courtesy campaign should be called "WAKE THE F-CK UP WHEN WALKING"![]()
A couple of weeks ago we were invited to the races at the Turf Club (a new experience for me, most enjoyable). The journey there, along the PIE, KJE and/or whatever other TLA highways we went on, seemed to take forever and once we got 'out of town' the view was mostly of trees, jungle and open spaces. I remember commenting along the lines of "So much for over-crowded Singapore." Obviously I'm not advocating the wholesale destruction of green spaces, but my point is that by carefully controlling the supply of land for building (and implying that there's a 'shortage'), the gahmen are squeezing everyone into small spaces, and helping to keep the property prices ridiculously high as a nice (for them) by-product.
I concur with the comments regarding a lack of 'joined up thinking'. There have been some spectacular civil engineering projects recently - take the Circle Line as an example. But when you come out of Stadium station and want to walk to Kallang Leisure Park, you have to make a series of 90 degree turns and zig-zag your way along paths that couldn't have been more illogically placed if they'd planned it that way. Surely they didn't actually plan it that way, right?
It is everywhere! I wish to know what goes in the brains of civil engineers and architects when they design and construct common walkways for all buildings.zzm9980 wrote:That's why they have the nice dirt trail through the grass...Mi Amigo wrote:I hereby volunteer to help design the stickers for this.zzm9980 wrote:Perhaps the next courtesy campaign should be called "WAKE THE F-CK UP WHEN WALKING"![]()
A couple of weeks ago we were invited to the races at the Turf Club (a new experience for me, most enjoyable). The journey there, along the PIE, KJE and/or whatever other TLA highways we went on, seemed to take forever and once we got 'out of town' the view was mostly of trees, jungle and open spaces. I remember commenting along the lines of "So much for over-crowded Singapore." Obviously I'm not advocating the wholesale destruction of green spaces, but my point is that by carefully controlling the supply of land for building (and implying that there's a 'shortage'), the gahmen are squeezing everyone into small spaces, and helping to keep the property prices ridiculously high as a nice (for them) by-product.
I concur with the comments regarding a lack of 'joined up thinking'. There have been some spectacular civil engineering projects recently - take the Circle Line as an example. But when you come out of Stadium station and want to walk to Kallang Leisure Park, you have to make a series of 90 degree turns and zig-zag your way along paths that couldn't have been more illogically placed if they'd planned it that way. Surely they didn't actually plan it that way, right?
And yeah, it seems the whole northwest corner of the island has plenty of room.
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