Thinking about scales

Singapore is far bigger than we usually think it is. It’s beneficial to urban planning to not think of our 728 sqkm space as merely one city, but much more.

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.

Connecting the dots, and a surprising admission

New route again out of the blue. What do we make out of it?

When staggering doesn’t work

Bus stop staggering sounds like a good idea to make buses travel faster and stop less, right? Why isn’t that happening then?

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.

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.

Bus go vroom

Things happened on the night of the New Years’ countdown party. We take a look at what could have been done, A LOT better. At the same time, let’s discuss a type of bus service that’s underrated — the city direct.

Y becomes T

After 2 years of keeping the question up in the air on this site, I finally reveal my proposal to rework the awkward 3-way round-robin of the JRL! 😀

Who is transit for?

Can’t believe this has to be brought up again, but here goes. Public transit is no longer just for commutes, something that recent actions… don’t reflect.

Interchange types – Singapore edition

The Basics post from last year confused you? This one classifies every transfer station in Singapore. Will be continually updated.