Once again, our esteem government has shown us how dumb n stupid they can be in coming up with idiotic ideas that in trying to beautify our city, only to cause more problems for its people. Firstly is the $40 million rejuvenation of Orchard Road.
According to the news article, I quote,
If you ever have been done to Orchard Road, you know how jam that stretch of road is and the situation are much worse during the weekends and peak hours. And now they are planning to make the traffic jam worse by removing one more lane?!! Alamak, the pedestrian walkway is wide enough for Airbus A380 to land. Together with the open area in front of Takashimaya Shopping Centre, there is more than adequate space for all kinds of events, how much space does these things take? And just because they want more space for some once in a while events, they cause a traffic congestion that is happening everyday to go worse. So is this all the many scholars, the ex-army general civil servants, or the out-sourced design gurus the government employed can come up with? It is very obvious, these people lack of a brain to think anything further away than next week. As musings puts it very well, the gov't pays $40m to create traffic jam.
On the other hand, maybe I have missed the big picture. By reducing one more lane on a busy road, they will have another excuse to raise the ERP there. Hmmm...
Talking about ERP, ERP rates are on the raise again merely a few months after the last raise. It's been the third time this year already. After raising so much, does the condition of the road changes? The only things that change are the pockets of our ministers. And when we take the public transport, what does the public transportation companies do? They raise their rates too. So rather than always using the ERP as a quick fire way to resolve traffic congestion, why can't those smart alecks in the gov't agency think of building or redesign the roads to divert/control the traffic better?
According to the news article, I quote,
Part of the rejuvenation plans is to expand pedestrian walkways and create Urban Green Rooms, which will be used for art exhibitions, mini performances or major events like the Chingay.
The Urban Green Rooms will be constructed at the existing lane along Orchard Road that faces ION Orchard, Wisma Atria and Meritus Mandarin Hotel."
If you ever have been done to Orchard Road, you know how jam that stretch of road is and the situation are much worse during the weekends and peak hours. And now they are planning to make the traffic jam worse by removing one more lane?!! Alamak, the pedestrian walkway is wide enough for Airbus A380 to land. Together with the open area in front of Takashimaya Shopping Centre, there is more than adequate space for all kinds of events, how much space does these things take? And just because they want more space for some once in a while events, they cause a traffic congestion that is happening everyday to go worse. So is this all the many scholars, the ex-army general civil servants, or the out-sourced design gurus the government employed can come up with? It is very obvious, these people lack of a brain to think anything further away than next week. As musings puts it very well, the gov't pays $40m to create traffic jam.
On the other hand, maybe I have missed the big picture. By reducing one more lane on a busy road, they will have another excuse to raise the ERP there. Hmmm...
Talking about ERP, ERP rates are on the raise again merely a few months after the last raise. It's been the third time this year already. After raising so much, does the condition of the road changes? The only things that change are the pockets of our ministers. And when we take the public transport, what does the public transportation companies do? They raise their rates too. So rather than always using the ERP as a quick fire way to resolve traffic congestion, why can't those smart alecks in the gov't agency think of building or redesign the roads to divert/control the traffic better?
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