TR EMERITUS

Since the furore over the population white paper various official statements have been made to try to pacify the people. One such statement is that the scary figure of 6.9 million is not a target but simply the worst case scenario the planners can foresee and it is merely a planning assumption. On the basis of this assumption... 

Minister Iswaran: “6.9 million is there to give an upper end, an upper bound of the possible scenarios we can see looking ahead for 18 years. Why do we need to look at the upper bound? Because if you decide that is the upper bound, then we have to make decisions now about infrastructure, because if you want to build more MRT... 

In light of the recently-released White Paper on Population, I would like to share my experiences on the Singapore and Hong Kong Train network system (MRT and MTR respectively). My family was privileged to have been able to visit these two countries recently for holiday. As tourists, we walked everywhere a lot and relied heavily...