This photo shows a tunnel built by The Boring Company. It is 4 meter wide and is suitable for an electric vehicle to travel within the tunnel. It cost US $15 million per km to build the tunnel.
This size of tunnel is suitable as an underground pedestrian tunnel. I like to build a network of tunnel in each town, so that people can walk in the tunnel to get from one part of the town to another.
For example, they can walk in the tunnel to get to the MRT station, bus interchange, school or town center.
The tunnel is ventilated and is sheltered from the hot sun and rain. It is safe to walk in the tunnel. There is no need to cross roads which are used by vehicles.
Do you like this concept?
The cost of the underground network for the whole of Singapore is quite modest. It is less than the cost of the Downtown Line or the North South Highway. It can serve the whole of Singapore. I estimate the total cost to be $12 billion, or less.
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SINGAPORE: SBS Transit said it is assisting the police with investigations following an incident on Monday in which a woman was hit by one of its buses and pinned under its rear wheel. 🤢🤢🤢
ReplyDeleteThe bus was making a discretionary right turn as the woman walked along the pedestrian crossing. Video of part of the sequence of events is obscured by a pick-up truck and when the pedestrian next comes into view, she is seen pinned under the right rear wheel of the bus.🤢🤢🤢
The police were also informed of the incident at the same time and said the "54-year-old woman was conscious" when she was taken to hospital.🤢🤢🤢
Investigations are ongoing, police added.🤢🤢🤢
SBS Transit is also assisting the police in the probe, Ms Tan of SBS Transit said.
***Bus driver was a one-man multi-tasking a huge vehicle, looking out for bus-stops when to move off, concentrating on passengers boarding and alighting. He only has one brain and one pair of eyes for all that could be happening at one time.***
We have a traffic system where green man traffic-lights are for the pedestrians crossing at crossings and traffic turning right and watching out for three-lane traffic coming straight on the left, everything at the same time. How did one not expect that this is definitely a recipe for disaster?🤢🤢🤢 Steady lah.
Wise sayings;
ReplyDeleteSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo da Vinci
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. – Mark Twain
I don’t need it to be easy, I need it to be worth it. – Lil Wayne
A happy soul is the best shield for a cruel world. – Atticus
Nothing lasts forever but at least we got these memories. – J. Cole
All limitations are self-imposed. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.”— Edward Tuft
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Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are. – Kurt Cobain
No natural resources? Here one pays for half a million-dollar HDB expending upwards and they say it is subsidies? In most developed countries one pays half a million dollar for a landed spacious home and not subsidies, the developers can still earn a decent profit? Land cost for HDB must be horrendous. The land cost ends up in whose pockets? In undeveloped countries, a big house costs $100,000 and it is not subsidies. Do the math.
ReplyDeleteIt depends on the accounting.