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.

This town actually doesn’t need feeders?

In stark contrast to the hub-and-spoke approach, other towns offer us a more connective vision of both intra-town and inter-town public transport. Here’s one where feeders are actually quite redundant, and only needed for capacity purposes.

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.

Happy birthday Singapore, and an outlook

As we celebrate National Day 2023, here’s an outlook for public transport developments in the coming years.

Alstom Movia R151 — The Review

The brand-new Alstom MOVIA R151 trains debuted on the East-West Line on 4th June. Some of the Team were on site for its first ever journey, and here’s our review of the NSEWL’s to-be new fleet.

With oddly specific prompts, I asked ChatGPT about three issues and questions about Singapore’s transport network. Here’s what it said.

With oddly specific prompts, I asked ChatGPT about three issues and questions about Singapore’s transport network. Here’s what it said.

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?

Hub-and-Spoke: Yishun the microcosm

The way Yishun is planned very snugly fits the ideal “hub-and-spoke” model that LTA has been proposing. In the not good sense, obviously.

Service 52 x 143M (误)

Stage 2 of the Cross Island Line was recently released. Except…

Plz move 2 da rear

Remember the days when you need to wait for the next bus (occasionally train/APM) just because the bottom was full? But rear or/and top empty? It doesn’t necessarily need to be this way. So fret not! Here are ways to make commuters give way and “naturally” improve passenger flow, without slapping a obscure third door at the rear and praying the passenger flow magically improves.