Tuesday, August 03, 2010

The future of cities and transportation

Read this article.

My view
In the future, each town should be designed to be designed without private cars. People will travel by various modes of public transport, taxis and automated cars (without drivers). If they wish to travel outside the town, the can hire a car that is parked at the fringe of the town or take a long distance bus. There will be no travel congestion and people can travel within the town in comfort.

Here is an article about night parking in HDB car parks. We have inadequate car parks in Singapore for the growing number of private cars.
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3 comments:

C H Yak said...

In Singapore, if the Authorities could not think of a good solution, it is always to use "MONEY" as a mean of control...So ultimately it becomes your problem...up to U ?

And Govt revenue will be up anyway ...

August 03, 2010 8:33 AM
singapore man said...

Our current system of buses and MRT are not working in unison, truck service are too tangled up, and feeder service are unreliable and I don’t even want to mention their so call express services, I am lucky to live in Sengkang, so at least I can rely on the reliable LRT/MRT network, trip to the CBD would just take about 40-45min during rush hour, which is about the same time (30-40min) if you decide to drive down. I am used to the bearable load capacity of the purple line even during rush hour, and someone really need to do something about the crush load on the Red/green line during rush hour, a big build guy like me cannot “tahan” let alone, petite size lady, pregnant, elderly, young and disadvantaged.

The LTA and MOT have taken some of the current best practices like GPS, contactless payment, paying by distance, but they forgot to untangle the bus network, increase network speed and connectivity, and urban planning. Which is quite disappointing.

August 03, 2010 5:22 PM
Tan Kin Lian said...

Mr Tan,
I cannot believe HDB and URA would come out with such solution.

Can the increase in $2 solve a demand-and-supply problem? Are our government getting too used to the "ERP" type of solutioning?

We are talking about overnight parking! Where else u expect the car owner to park? Along the road illegally?

If you did not build enough car park, build more to increase your supply. More fundamentally, HDB may want to review their assumption when calculating the number of parking lots per HDB block.

What can we do? Make a compliant to CASE? By the way, I don't drive.

ckh

August 04, 2010 12:09 PM

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