Finally the brown line is useful. I held this post because I didn’t feel the open day was going to be a real indicator of how good the line will be at doing its job. …

Here’s another tale of a missed opportunity. The opening of TEL3 will make the rest of the line more useful as well. This explains potential increases in traffic at Woodlands South and south of Mayflower station, with Woodlands and some Ang Mo Kio residents getting a faster and less congested…

Sure Newton and Little India can be nasty, but now there aren’t any more excuses. In fact, Stevens being an interchange with TEL3 might even buy us some time to think about how to go about expanding the handling capacity of those other interchange stations, especially Little India which is…

Much has been written about housing prices, let’s talk about supply. To be fair, there’s plenty of land supply. …

I found myself in The City some time last month. There’s lots to see within the Bay Area especially from the perspective of a student of transit. Apart from the usual buses and heavy rail, there’s also the world-famous cable cars. …

Like it or not, actions have consequences. Nobody likes a fare increase. I don’t. This time, it appears all the more egregious especially since it could have been much worse; the PTC only granted one-quarter of the nearly 14% increase requested by the operators. …

The more I find about the plans in the 1990s regarding the KTM Singapore Sector, the more interesting it gets. Serious discussions, several of them apparently, were actually had on an intergovernmental level on the modernization of the KTM tracks in Singapore in the 20th century. It fell through, for…

What can be done with reevaluating CBD roads? I was at Telok Ayer Street a while ago for dinner. The Tanjong Pagar and Telok Ayer areas have quite their fair share of Korean BBQ and other kinds of restaurants. And parking lots. At least there are also bicycle parking lots…

Examining a highly strategic station with changing value. Editor’s note: I’m overseas at time of publishing, it’s Friday night here; while I have automatic posting on for the actual blog post, do expect delays in reposting to the Telegram channel. The Long-Term Plan Review and the map shown in the…