Skirting the Central Catchment Nature Reserve could cost $2B more: LTA

February 22, 2016

ricky l42 seconds ago

I believe this MRT line serve 2 purposes :-

(1) serve people in thomson, sin ming area (which currently has no MRT line).

(2) provide a redundant line from Changi, Ang Mo Kio to Jurong (NUS, NTU, SP, NP, UniSim, One-North, Science Park) ---- which is a highly dense populated and commuted places.

This MRT line will alleviate the Green line and Orange line -- that is heavily used and no redundancy when the MRT line break down).

This MRT line will provide redundancy if the Green line and Orange line breakdown - and also commuters have choice to pick the redundant line if one line is congested.

Also spending additional $2 billion for skirting is a no-no - as going underground and skirt 40 meters underground is good enough - as it will not disturb the reserve, the water catchment and the animals.

ricky l20 seconds ago

$2 billion can build 10,000 HDB flats for Singaporeans - it should not be wasted just to please this so called "nature groups" - who don't understand how difficult to earn that $2 billion --- who think money drop from the sky or grow on the trees.

If MRT going underground 40 meters does not affect the reserve or water catchment or disturb the animals --- i don't see why this so called "nature groups" are so adamant to waste away the $2 billion just to please them.

If the nature group still want to skirt - tell them to wear skirts and go fly kites.

ricky l34 seconds ago

The green line serving Paya lebar and the red line serving ang mo kio ----- are very crowded during peak hours.

This new MRT line will alleviate the crowds - and provide redundancy in case of breakdown --- i think this is very handy.

An eg. is the Serangoon MRT have 2 redundant routes - one orange line to go one-north and one purple line to go by harbourfront to go one-north.

If one line go down, commuters can hop over to the other line in the same MRT station - without having to take relief buses.

Then MRT will become a reliable medium of commuting - and can sustain breakdown.

This is just like IT, one core equipment go down, then just failover to another redundant equipment - and minimum downtime to users and SLA (service level agreement) is ensure.

Why people has no wisdom to understand?

ricky l3 seconds ago

I believe this MRT line will also serve the silk routes - from Changi Airport all the way to Jurong and then to Singapore-Malaysia-S E Asia-China-Middle East and all the way to Europe - and bring high volume tourist into Singapore and boost our GDP growth.

This nature group talk about "unnecessary skirting" - can they wear skirt and dance when the tourist come - can earn some entertainment money.