The airport blues

If I were catching a flight, I’d happily take the bus in Guangzhou, but not Singapore. Why?

Charting our history

As a piece of our rail infrastructure becomes history, this is perhaps our chance to formalise the process of preserving our own transport history.

Are we expanding the right way? Punggol Feeders #2

Expansions are often to the benefit of commuters, but are all expansions thoroughly planned to last long-term growth? Let’s take a look at 2 case studies, a continuation of Punggol’s Long-Term Planning Hit and Miss.

The charm of imperfection

While we’ve all been hating on our MRT system, perhaps we can still find a bit of joy in it’s imperfections.

Long Term Planning gone wrong? Punggol Feeders #1

For a while ever since Punggol was ever heard of, the mainstay public transportation modes are through the LRT or the Bus. As a pilot town for the LRT system, Punggol was introduced with car centric roads and long-term APM systems, though effective, it seems like the demand is on the rise- for buses. What has happened and why did its long term planning go wrong?

Revisiting Standards…and Benchmarks (Part I)

The first in a two-part series. The former of the two you see here is for managing service standards.

100 posts, and asking for more

Today, on 22 March 2023, the STC blog officially publishes its 100th post. And we address the question central to what STC does — why demand more?

Transit ideas for National Day

Yay it’s National Day again!!! Here’s some transit ideas (totally not spoilers for upcoming plans from STC) to consider as we celebrate Singapore’s 57th birthday.

The LRT video – some notes

Notes on a recent video on the APM systems by tehsiewdai, and about transport planning in general.

Financial “Prudence”

LTA mentioned that Service X is duplicated and wasting resources? Here’s the UNO reverse card to their claims: the irony of the agency attempting to save money.