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I took a trip to the new MRT Siglap station along the Thomson Line.
I actually took a bus from Bedok interchange to reach there, instead of taking the MRT.
These newly opened MRT stations along Thomson Line look very empty to me, even though there is Victoria School just beside it.
I guess they have spent a great amount of money building these 10 stations right from Marina Bay to Sungei Bedok. The cost of building 1 MRT station can be as high as half a billion dollars or more. For the whole Thomson East Coast line of 32 stations, it is said to cost $28 billions which on average, over $870m, per station!
However, it seems that ridership over this line will be quite pathetic as compared to the great amount of money spent on it.
This will be especially so for 10 stations from Marina Bay to Sungei Bedok.
These stations are serving mainly low density residential area which basically has Zero connectivity with other lines.
The fact that I need to take a bus from Bedok to Siglap MRT station says it all.
This line runs parallel to the East West line with no connectivity to the main interchange stations like Paya Lebar MRT or the main densely populated Bedok Station in the region.
The main attraction along the this part of the East Coast line is East Coast Park itself but there is no connectivity to the park other than taking a long walk under the hot sun to get to the underpasses.
It is only logical for this part of the Thomson East Coast line to be connected to Paya Lebar MRT and Bedok MRT, with connectivity built to the East Coast Park.
Heng Swee Kiat claims to have his "East Coast Plan" but apparently he doesn't really know what to plan for!
I don't wish to this multi Billion MRT line to become another White Elephant, wasting all the money and opportunity costs of traffic jams and inconvenience for the past years.
The standard of governance has dropped drastically over these few decades with bad planning and over spending of billions on projects that don't make any sense at all. When they run short of money, what do they do? They just squeeze us for more money via raising GST.
I took a trip to the new MRT Siglap station along the Thomson Line.
I actually took a bus from Bedok interchange to reach there, instead of taking the MRT.
These newly opened MRT stations along Thomson Line look very empty to me, even though there is Victoria School just beside it.
I guess they have spent a great amount of money building these 10 stations right from Marina Bay to Sungei Bedok. The cost of building 1 MRT station can be as high as half a billion dollars or more. For the whole Thomson East Coast line of 32 stations, it is said to cost $28 billions which on average, over $870m, per station!
However, it seems that ridership over this line will be quite pathetic as compared to the great amount of money spent on it.
This will be especially so for 10 stations from Marina Bay to Sungei Bedok.
These stations are serving mainly low density residential area which basically has Zero connectivity with other lines.
The fact that I need to take a bus from Bedok to Siglap MRT station says it all.
This line runs parallel to the East West line with no connectivity to the main interchange stations like Paya Lebar MRT or the main densely populated Bedok Station in the region.
The main attraction along the this part of the East Coast line is East Coast Park itself but there is no connectivity to the park other than taking a long walk under the hot sun to get to the underpasses.
It is only logical for this part of the Thomson East Coast line to be connected to Paya Lebar MRT and Bedok MRT, with connectivity built to the East Coast Park.
Heng Swee Kiat claims to have his "East Coast Plan" but apparently he doesn't really know what to plan for!
I don't wish to this multi Billion MRT line to become another White Elephant, wasting all the money and opportunity costs of traffic jams and inconvenience for the past years.
The standard of governance has dropped drastically over these few decades with bad planning and over spending of billions on projects that don't make any sense at all. When they run short of money, what do they do? They just squeeze us for more money via raising GST.
