Tag Archives: overcrowding

Housing is a basic need. Is it too much to want a roof over our heads?

Yesterday evening at Harbourfront (Circle Line platforms), I noticed that passengers had to cross through each other to get to their respective escalator, and vice-versa.

To be honest, I guess many already knows why our MRT keep breaking down. Our MRT was designed back in SG golden era of about 2 million people, now it is already three times that population and it will still keep raising.

Refer to the posting on MRT delay today. This is not new. It has been happening for the past several weeks at the Clementi Station.

Chaos and massive overcrowding this morning due to signalling faults across MRT lines which SMRT has attributed to the testing of the new signalling system. How convinced are you with LTA and SMRT's explanation?

A pioneer generation PAP civil servant recently told the media and city planners in Singapore that the country needs to aim for a 10m population in order for Singapore to survive. Singapore hero Roy Ngerng gives his take on this flawed policy goal.

I am a Singaporean who is currently staying in Australia. I am fully aware of the SMRT technical fault which has affected commuters throughout Singapore. Meanwhile, an idea struck into my mind and I would like to propose something that could potentially solve the over-crowding issue during peak hour and the constant delays of the trains in Singapore.

Yishun Community Hospital (YCH) will open at the end of the year and will relieve some of the overcrowding at the nearby Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH). The opening of the new YCH will allow KTPH, which treats those with more critical conditions,to move patients in need of rehabilitation treatment to YCH for their next phase of treatment.

Our immigration policy is not much different from what is happening in Geylang. Anyone can walk through the door, pay a fee, have fun and then walk away. And if one has a bit more money, can double his fun and stay longer. Anyone, regardless of nationality, can walk into a whore house and be treated very well, like a good customer, a value customer.

I refer to this week’s VoicesTODAY topic, “Is xenophobia a growing problem?” Any claim of xenophobia among Singaporeans must be substantiated, for it drives a wedge in our relatively cohesive society. Singapore residents, including foreigners who have lived here for several years, are merely unhappy about overcrowding. Having too many people on a small piece of land, with public infrastructure that is overtaxed, causes discomfort and stress due to intensifying competition for limited resources such as housing and cars. The unhappiness is not directed at foreigners.