Resorts World Sentosa opened 12 years ago, but today was the first time I visited it. I did so only to accompany Tiak and her friends in using our SingapoRediscovers vouchers. Surprisingly, I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Perhaps it was because I never visited an amusement or theme park as a kid, and now I have made up for lost time. It was a fun day of temporarily leaving my problems, troubles, and worries at the door, and letting my hair down.
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- Dec 28, 2021
Tiak and I purchased a jigsaw puzzle with a difference - it’s one of the Singapore MRT and LRT system!
This map will be accurate up to 2026, with the completion of the Thomson-East Coast Line and Stage 6 of the Circle Line. 2027 will see the rollout of the Jurong Region Line, which is not on the map.
There are 1,000 pieces in this puzzle.
The first two pieces I connected - labels for the Downtown and Thomson-East Coast lines.
The natural process was to connect pieces according to the colours of the MRT lines. It was fun trying to recall the positions of stations from memory, instead of referring to the map provided.
I told Tiak to pass me pieces containing the LRT stations and names, for me to put together the Sengkang and Punggol LRT lines.
The western part of the MRT map coming together.
Good progress after a couple of hours!
We foresee it will only get harder from here - there are a lot of white pieces.
- Dec 4, 2021
Dedicated this morning to taking part in a public engagement session (on Zoom) organised by Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), part of a year-long consultation exercise for their Long-Term Plan Review (LTPR). The LTPR is a review of Singapore’s long-term land use plans.
Around 110 of us were divided into groups for breakout sessions, and I was assigned to Group 1, which explored ways and means for Singapore’s built environment to be more inclusive.
Some ideas I shared during the session:
1. Convert open-air carparks in older housing estates into community plazas.
2. Pedestrianise more under-utilised roads in towns, and convert them into civic spaces.
3. Develop “dead” spaces below expressway flyovers.
Some of them could be converted into bus terminals for intra-expressway bus services which can offer a fast connection between towns.
4. New neighbourhoods to incorporate housing blocks of varying heights - 40 storeys, 10 to 15 storeys, two to four storeys.
5. For each housing estate, organise regular migrant worker appreciation nights for residents and migrant workers to bond over meals - a small way to thank the people responsible for maintaining the estate.
Everyone was given ample opportunities to share, and the session was well facilitated. In all, it was a fruitful morning, and I felt I had done my duty as a concerned citizen.
URA’s summary of the results of the session:
Here’s hoping more government agencies similarly engage us with regards to long-term plans - after all, these plans affect each and every one of us who share this island we call home.
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