Category Archives: Transport

Travels and the tourist attractions; tourism and the travel industry; invisible earnings; travel while young; the medical travel industry; travel insurance; airlines and cruise ships; space tourism;

Posted on March 5, 2023 by tankoktim

===================== . A mentality of spending now when young and pay later over the years. Will banks support this by giving loans and for the person to repay the loans over 30 years from earned income, which will rise over … Continue reading →

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Singapore’s facial verification system; Will we improve immigration clearance at the Marina Cruise Centre? Learn from Narita for airport fast clearance; Will the Govt improve the ICQ clearance procedures too when the RTS train commences service between JB and Woodlands?

Posted on July 22, 2022 by tankoktim

============= . How to be the top cruise centre Hub in Asia? Clearance by ICA on board vessel at cruise centres is very critical as passengers have only a few hours within 24 hours after vessel docking to sightsee and … Continue reading →

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Drones of the future…; Unmanned ocean-going vessels?

Posted on March 29, 2021 by tankoktim

======= . When will ocean-going vessels be unmanned? Will parents send their bright and brilliant children to ivy league universities or to the polytechnics to be become seafarers or plane pilots? What a waste of human talent and resources if … Continue reading →

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RTS agreements signed on 30th July 2020- Johor to Singapore; The RTS, a LRT system [not MRT system], not a seamless system, will operate in end 2026, a delay by two years; Each side will be responsible to build the RST system up to their side of the common border.

Posted on July 30, 2020 by tankoktim

============= . JB-Singapore RTS Link: Construction passes 65% mark on both sides, connecting span completed 1 of 6 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (right) and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim at a ceremony to mark the completion of a connecting … Continue reading →

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Paya Lebar MRT Station. The Govt listened again. They have fixed the air blowers for commuters’ comfort.

Posted on February 6, 2020 by tankoktim

Re: At the Paya Lebar MRT Station –  new air blowers have been installed. [please see photos below.] I am grateful to LTA/SMRT for listening to public feedback to fix the air blowers above the escalators at the link that … Continue reading →

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Thomson-East Coast Line stations to have two lifts – installing priority signage at lifts; new stations should have independent emergency co-generation; two-way escalator; and lifts; The MRT station at the mid-point of the PIE; Circle Line final tunnelling completed on 12 Jan 2022;

Posted on January 23, 2020 by tankoktim

====== . Acquiring land, building bridges and viaducts… Will it cost more than drilling tunnels from both ends and from many sections of the line with super huge tunnel boring machines to build the tracks and complete the project earlier? … Continue reading →

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Johor Baru-Woodlands RTS [MRT] defer Link till Sept 2019, April 2020, & to 31st July 2020; Improvement to CIQ in Johor to address traffic congestion issues;

Posted on May 21, 2019 by tankoktim

============= . Malaysia to spend S$48.8m to address traffic congestion at both Johor checkpoints. The projects include adding 44 M-Bike lanes at the Bangunan Sultan Iskandar and Kompleks Sultan Abu Bakar CIQs, costing about RM61.7 million. PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO FILE … Continue reading →

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Planes….The last of the 747; China’s C919 flyng; SIA scrapping the 380s; Boeing Max 8 went down twice…Boeing took more than a year to have the Max 8 fixed;

Posted on March 26, 2019 by tankoktim

========= . 747 no more…. Who will copy the design or steal the technology to build it with lighter materials, and more powerful and fuel efficient jet engines? ============ Boeing 747 jets changed everything for SIA and air travel. A … Continue reading →

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2019 Budget – my 28 suggestions

Posted on January 10, 2019 by tankoktim

2019 Budget  – my 28 suggestions: I hope MOF Heng Swee Keat will include one or two of my suggestions in the 2019 Budget, which will be announced in Parliament by him on 18th Feb 2019. What will be the … Continue reading →

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Singapore’s facial verification system; It is a super ICQ unmanned clearance high-tech system at Changi Airport; Will ICA improve immigration clearance at cruise centres? Learn from Narita for airport fast clearance; And we did at Changi after four years.

Posted on October 27, 2018 by tankoktim

==== . We came back via Changi T2 on 6Nov2022, and are impressed by the new walk-through unmanned electronic ICQ clearance system. We submitted the SGArrivalCard[SGAC], the electronic health declaration for Covid-19 with ICA within three days prior arrival. It … Continue reading →

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Mega Cities on flat land — no hydro or wind power, and inadequate land space for huge solar power farms [and those in temperate countries having four seasons, no solar power all year round]; What are the possible solutions for all mega cities [the big carbon polluters] becoming 100% users of renewable clean and green electricity ending use of fossil oil, coal and LNG?

Posted on February 23, 2018 by tankoktim

================== . Many solutions to generate renewable clean and green electricity. ========== ==== . Build a 10-storey structure [steel or concrete] and have a test run to pump water to the top, and have it retained on each floor and … Continue reading →

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EVs & Singapore Green Plan by 2030; Importing LNG – We paid S$8b more in 2022 due to the war; Net-zero emission by 2050; Burning 1% coal and 99% LNG till 2050; S$100b to build seawalls to keep rising sea levels out; Polder project at Pulau Tekong; Funding climate change by long-term loans; Hyundai electric vehicle plant in Singapore; costs of electric charging points; No environment, no nature, more diseases, no life; To protect and love nature at all cost? Protect all life;

Posted on June 10, 2017 by tankoktim

=========== . Solar panels… it is a drop in the ocean. Mega cities are the major carbon emission polluters, and on flat ground, it will not have land for hydro and wind power, or large land space for solar powers … Continue reading →

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Spiritual blessings at Bedok Reservoir and a MRT train [photos below]; Cause and effect of road accidents and untimely deaths; 5 died tragically at No. 37 Tanjong Pagar Road on 13th Feb 2021; There is no accident or coincidence on earth; Prayers for Durban roads in South Africa in 2005 [newspaper report below]; Road safety, should LTA conduct trials of lighted markings on road surface? Deaths by drowning at the Bedok Reservoir; Purification prayers by inter-religious group leaders at the Reservoir in 2011 and a MRT train in 2023; suicides at the Marina Bay areas, Singapore River, and Kallang River;

Posted on May 12, 2017 by tankoktim

 .============ . Body of 21-year-old man found floating on Bedok Reservoir Several personal items such as a backpack, bicycle and alcohol bottles were found at the scene. PHOTO: Shin Min Daily News.   PUBLISHED ON NOVEMBER 22, 2023 11:50 AM By LIM … Continue reading →

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Orchard Road – bring overhead garden concept to Orchard Road

Posted on May 4, 2017 by tankoktim

Bring overhead garden concept to Orchard Road FROM TAN KOK TIM PUBLISHED: 4:00 AM, MAY 1, 2017 in Today Voices s I refer to the letter “Reinvent the Orchard Road experience, not just its environment” (April 27). An overhead garden spans … Continue reading →

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E-bikers…. risks on roads; Registration and number plate for e-bike…the Govt has listened once again; More cycling paths to treble by 2030; Bicycles; Road safety for all;

Posted on January 11, 2017 by tankoktim

====== . In some countries, they do not encourage females to ride bicycle.   We are different. Good. . ========== .   So many leisure cyclists. What will nudge more to cycle to work?   A new, bold National Cycling … Continue reading →

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Go high-tech to make expressways safer; Should we raise the speed limit on expressways? Safety on roads and expressways, potholes are not the only causes of accidents; Lights embedded on the roads in Sydney and Brisbane to improve road safety;

Posted on September 21, 2016 by tankoktim

========== . I am grateful to ST for placing my letter in ST Forum Online on 19th Sept 2016, “Go high-tech to make expressways safer.   [Please see JPEG format below]. The wait was not in vain after a wait … Continue reading →

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Escalators and Elevators [lifts] at MRT stations, and public places; Steps before elevators and escalators cannot be user friendly…have ramps instead? Escalators are for mass and fast movement of people, not lifts;

Posted on August 4, 2016 by tankoktim

============ . What is compassion? To give compassion? To seek compassion? Give compassion is what it should be. ====== . People with disabilities…the physical barriers affecting them. But is that all to it. What else? Compassion with Gratitude plus plus … Continue reading →

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New 2nd CBD – how to ensure free-flowing traffic?

Posted on July 23, 2016 by tankoktim

Will the Govt listen? The Singapore Terminus of the KL to Singapore HSR will be located in the Jurong Lake District near Jurong East. The Govt has announced that the 2nd CBD will be in JLD. ======= I am grateful … Continue reading →

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HSR KL-Singapore MOU signed – Cost and Revenue Sharing bases? Bilateral Agreement signed on 13th Dec 2016

Posted on July 20, 2016 by tankoktim

Singapore, Malaysia ink agreement on high speed rail; joint tender to be called next year The Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail will open with eight stations: Jurong East station in Singapore, and Bandar Malaysia, Putrajaya, Seremban, Ayer Keroh, Muar, Batu … Continue reading →

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Build a seamless ring-road expressway around the fringes of the central catchment nature reserve areas

Posted on May 20, 2016 by tankoktim

I drove this evening at peak hours on 20th May 2016. The slow traffic on the PIE heading towards Tuas started before the Eunos Viaduct and it stretched all the way passed the Serangoon Viaduct. Like me, many motorists took … Continue reading →

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