#singapore public transport

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Sustainable Development in Singapore: An Exemplar of Modern Urban Ecology

Strategic Advancement in Green Building: In an ambitious endeavor, Singapore aims for 80% of its buildings to be green-certified by 2030, a significant milestone considering its urban density. Changi Airport, an epitome of this initiative, integrates a myriad of eco-friendly features, including the Rain Vortex, the world's tallest indoor waterfall, enhancing its reputation as the "World's Best Airport" for eight consecutive years.

Solar Energy Initiatives: Singapore's commitment to renewable energy is evident in its solar power achievements. Surpassing 820 megawatt-peak (MWp) in solar capacity at the end of 2022, the nation is on track to reach its 2025 target of 1.5 gigawatt- (GWp).

Enhancements in Public Transportation: Singapore's sustainable transport strategy aims for 75% of peak-hour commutes to be via public transport by 2030. The expansion of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system and the introduction of eco-friendly buses are pivotal in this endeavor, aiming to reduce reliance on private vehicles and lower carbon emissions.

Promotion of Electric Vehicles (EV): The government's extension of the Electric Vehicle Common Charger Grant until December 2025 underscores its commitment to enhancing EV infrastructure. This initiative, covering up to 50% of the cost of smart chargers, has led to the approval of 267 EV charger applications across 107 condominiums since July 2021.

Vision of a "City in a Garden": Singapore's approach to urban development harmoniously blends with environmental stewardship, as seen in its goal to plant one million trees by 2030. The iconic Gardens by the Bay, with its Supertrees, symbolizes this blend of ecological innovation and urban living, integrating features like solar energy collection and rainwater harvesting.

Singapore's multifaceted approach to sustainability is a testament to its visionary leadership, integrating technology, policy, and community involvement to create a living model of a sustainable urban future.

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[spiritingon]

this is actually so cute they’re walking around like it’s a little learning journey

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Exploration at The Bus Collective in Changi, Singapore - Preserved Scania Euro 4 Kubbies

Have you miss those buses after retirement, and what a bus hotel in Singapore look like? 20 Scania K230UB Euro IV units are re-purposed into as guest rooms for visitors.

Want to learn more? Link for info

Gallery (Part 1) - Rooms 101-108

Gallery (Part 1) - Rooms 201-208

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Horse-drawn buses and that 1870s weekend hop to JB

Believe it or not, the exodus of Singapore residents to Johor Bahru during the weekends goes back a least 150 years to the 1870s. The draw of JB back in those early days were neither its food or shopping, but the Johor’s many gambling establishments. Gambling had been made illegal in Singapore in 1829, and many turned to illegal establishments to satisfy that gambling itch, or make the trip to…

[ourwitching]

Danny Harmon on Distant Signal 📺 clued me into OpenRailwayMap, a OpenStreetMap-style site but for gl...

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The Role of AI in Public Transportation Optimization

Explore the evidence-backed journey into the future with 'The Role of AI in Public Transportation Optimization.

Navigating Efficiency: AI’s Transformative Impact on Public Transit In the bustling world of urban mobility, a silent orchestrator takes the stage – The Role of AI in Public Transportation Optimization. This article embarks on an insightful exploration, unraveling the ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping and optimizing public transportation systems to create efficient,…

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Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/30-percent-fall-demand-bus-service-167-lta-tel-commuters-unhappy-3928596

Also in Singapore,

Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/what-will-it-take-to-make-singapore-car-lite-688641

Meanwhile, in Japan,

Source: https://www.japan-rail-pass.com/plan-your-trip/travel-by-train/train-in-japan/one-passenger-station

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in a funny way, and i'm so serious about this, like this isn't just sour-graping, my life really worked itself out the best it could. is that very candide best-of-all-possible-worlds of me? but like, thinking back to everything that i wished would happen when i was younger... that actually wasn't the best path for me. and now i have ended up here, where i am so happy and content. who'ulda think it

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Best Reliable Airport Transfer Services in Singapore - GC Limousine

Experience seamless and comfortable airport transfers in Singapore with GC Limousine. Trust our professional chauffeurs and luxurious fleet to provide reliable and efficient transportation to and from the airport. Start your journey stress-free with our exceptional airport transfer services.

Visit: https://www.gclimousine.sg/airport-transfers/

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The Importance of Wheelchair Patient Transportation

Wheelchair patient transportation is essential for the safe and efficient movement of people with disabilities. This infographic provides an overview of the importance of wheelchair patient transportation, the different types of wheelchair patient transportation, and the steps involved in wheelchair patient transportation. If you are looking for a wheelchair Patient Transportation Service in Singapore? Ezryde Singapore is the best Wheelchair transport service provider in Singapore. We offer the best Wheelchair transportation services at affordable prices. Contact us for more information...

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Masks are still needed in hospital wards, clinics and nursing homes when interacting with patients. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Best Modes of Public Transport in Singapore

Singapore is one of the most desirable tourist destinations in Southeast Asia. The beautiful beaches, enchanting nature, and delicious food give it everything it needs to make the most memorable vacation. While places and activities seem endless, transportation can be time-consuming. However, Singapore has one of the most cost-effective transport systems in the world. There is efficient and fast public transportation in Singapore due to the country’s well-maintained and organised networks.

If this is your first time setting foot in Singapore, here’s a brief guide to Singapore public transportation guide that will help you know the most convenient modes of transport around the city. Don't forget to obtain your Singapore visa before exploring the country's various modes of transportation.

MRT or LRT

The MRT system is probably Singapore's quickest and most efficient way to get around and is supplemented by the LRT system, a smaller network of trains that allows passengers to easily access their homes.

The MRT consists of five lines: the East-West (green) line, the Circle (orange) line, the Downtown (blue) line, the North-South (red) line, and the North-East (purple) line. Most of them operate from 5:30 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. daily, with extended hours during the festive seasons.

Bus

With a well-organised and extensive network of roads, the public bus system in Singapore is the most accessible and economical way to get around, though it is not always time-efficient. SBS Transit operates in red-and-white buses, and SMRT operates in yellow buses. Throughout Singapore, each operator serves its own connectivity routes and bus interchanges.

There are even supplementary public transport bus services operated by private service providers, offering more transport options. If you are willing to pay a little more for convenience and comfort, Premium Bus Services (PBS) provides a more efficient bus service with direct routes between major housing estates and the Central Business District/industrial business parks during rush hours. Singapore public bus transportation timings are mostly determined by routes, running between 5:00 a.m. and 12:00 a.m.

Taxis

Taxis are a highly convenient and comfortable mode of public transport in Singapore, providing greater speed and privacy. Moreover, it is the fastest mode to get to your desired destination at any time. Though abundant in numbers, taxis can be infrequent during morning and evening rush hours and on rainy days.

Taxis in Singapore are metered, and the charges depend on when and where you board, which company you use and whether you use booking services. Each taxi company has their own booking hotline, and some apps are also available.

Car

A car is one of the most convenient ways of getting around Singapore, allowing you total freedom in your travel plans. Singapore is not cheap to buy or maintain a car, and cars are mostly considered a luxury that only some can afford. As a visitor, you must hold a valid foreign licence and an International Driving Permit (IDP) to drive in Singapore. If you don’t have an IDP, you must obtain an official translation of the foreign licence in English.

River Taxi

The River Taxi is probably the most fun and memorable experience of transportation in Singapore. These have bumboats, which are used for transporting passengers on their trips along the river banks.

River taxis offer the best scenes, giving the perfect opportunity to explore the city from different perspectives. The cruise takes you through the famous buildings and major landmarks of Singapore, lasting roughly 30 to 40 minutes. Singapore River Taxis currently cover five stops: Clemenceau, Boat Quay, Clarke Quay, Robertson Quay, and the Esplanade.

Public transport in Singapore is accessible, efficient, and fast to get around the city. You can buy an EZ-Link card, a Singapore tourist pass that offers endless travel based on its terms and conditions.

So, with this Singapore transport guide, you now have a brief idea of which transport system is convenient and efficient for your trip to Singapore.

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What it meant to "do geology" in Hutton's time was to apply lessons of textual hermeneutics usually reserved for scripture [...] to the landscape. Geology was itself textual. Rocks were marks made by invisible processes that could be deciphered. Doing geology was a kind of reading, then, which existed in a dialectical relationship with writing. In The Theory of the Earth from 1788, Hutton wrote a new history of the earth as a [...] system [...]. Only a few kilometers away from Hutton’s unconformity [the geological site at Isle of Arran in Scotland that inspired his writing], [...] stands the remains of the Shell bitumen refinery [closed since 1986] as it sinks into the Atlantic Ocean. [...] As Hutton thought, being in a place is a hermeneutic practice. [...] [T]he Shell refinery at Ardrossan is a ruin of that machine, one whose great material derangements have defined the world since Hutton. [...]

The Shell Transport and Trading Company [now the well-known global oil company] was created in the Netherlands East Indies in 1897. The company’s first oil wells and refineries were in east Borneo [...]. The oil was taken by puncturing wells into subterranean deposits of a Bornean or Sumatran landscape, and then transported into an ever-expanding global network of oil depots at ports [...] at Singapore, then Chennai, and through the Suez Canal and into the Mediterranean. [...] The oil in these networks were Bornean and Sumatran landscapes on the move. Combustion engines burnt those landscapes. Machinery was lubricated by them. They illuminated the night as candlelight. [...] The Dutch East Indies was the new land of untapped promise in that multi-polar world of capitalist competition. British and Dutch colonial prospectors scoured the forests, rivers, and coasts of Borneo [...]. Marcus Samuel, the British founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, as his biographer [...] put it, was “mesmerized by oil, and by the vision of commanding oil all along the line from production to distribution, from the bowels of the earth to the laps of the Orient.” [...]

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Shell emerged from a Victorian era fascination with shells.

In the 1830s, Marcus Samuel Sr. created a seashell import business in Houndsditch, London. The shells were used for decorating the covers of curio boxes. Sometimes, the boxes also contained miniature sculptures, also made from shells, of food and foliage, hybridizing oceanic and terrestrial life forms. Wealthy shell enthusiasts would sometimes apply shells to grottos attached to their houses. As British merchant vessels expanded into east Asia after the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on trade in 1833, and the establishment of ports at Singapore and Hong Kong in 1824 and 1842, the import of exotic shells expanded.

Seashells from east Asia represented the oceanic expanse of British imperialism and a way to bring distant places near, not only the horizontal networks of the empire but also its oceanic depths.

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The fashion for shells was also about telling new histories. The presence of shells, the pecten, or scallop, was a familiar bivalve icon in cultures on the northern edge of the Mediterranean. Aphrodite, for example, was said to have emerged from a scallop shell. Minerva was associated with scallops. Niches in public buildings and fountains in the Roman empire often contained scallop motifs. St. James, the patron saint of Spain, was represented by a scallop shell [...]. The pecten motif circulated throughout medieval European coats of arms, even in Britain. In 1898, when the Gallery of Palaeontology, Comparative Anatomy, and Anthropology was opened in Paris’s Museum of Natural History - only two years after the first test well was drilled in Borneo at the Black Spot - the building’s architect, Ferdinand Dutert, ornamented the entrance with pecten shell reliefs. In effect, Dutert designed the building so that one entered through scallop shells and into the galleries where George Cuvier’s vision of the evolution of life forms was displayed [...]. But it was also a symbol for the transition between an aquatic form of life and terrestrial animals. Perhaps it is apposite that the scallop is structured by a hinge which allows its two valves to rotate. [...] Pectens also thrive in the between space of shallow coastal waters that connects land with the depths of the ocean. [...] They flourish in architectural imagery, in the mind, and as the logo of one of the largest ever fossil fuel companies. [...]

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In the 1890s, Marcus Samuel Jr. transitioned from his father’s business selling imported seashells to petroleum.

When he adopted the name Shell Transport and Trading Company in 1897, Samuel would likely have known that the natural history of bivalves was entwined with the natural history of fossil fuels. Bivalves underwent an impressive period of diversification in the Carboniferous period, a period that was first named by William Conybeare and William Phillips in 1822 to identify coal bearing strata. In other words, the same period in earth’s history that produced the Black Spot that Samuel’s engineers were seeking to extract from Dayak land was also the period that produced the pecten shells that he named his company after. Even the black fossilized leaves that miners regularly encountered in coal seams sometimes contained fossilized bivalve shells.

The Shell logo was a materialized cosmology, or [...] a cosmogram.

Cosmograms are objects that attempt to represent the order of the cosmos; they are snapshots of what is. The pecten’s effectiveness as a cosmogram was its pivot, to hinge, between spaces and times: it brought the deep history of the earth into the present; the Black Spot with Mediterranean imaginaries of the bivalve; the subterranean space of liquid oil with the surface. The history of the earth was made legible as an energetic, even a pyrotechnical force. The pecten represented fire, illumination, and certainly, power. [...] If coal required tunnelling, smashing, and breaking the ground, petroleum was piped liquid that streamed through a drilled hole. [...] In 1899, Samuel presented a paper to the Society of Arts in which he outlined his vision of “liquid fuel.” [...] Ardrossan is a ruin of that fantasy of a free flowing fossil fuel world. [...] At Ardrossan, that liquid cosmology is disintegrating.

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All text above by: Adam Bobbette. "Shells and Shell". e-flux Architecture (Accumulation series). November 2023. At: e-flux dot com slash architecture/accumulation/553455/shells-and-shell/ [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticisms purposes.]

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 what i read in jul. 2023:

(previous editions) bold = favourite

race, gender, sexuality

transphobia in new zealand is making the shift from online to real life

mrt jackets: the naked truth behind women covering up on public transport (singapore)

do not forget them (canada)

a mother's worst nightmare (usa)

when barbie went to war with bratz

the 1975, matty healy, malaysia, and the problem with saviour complexes

photos of samoa’s fa’afafine community that reshape coloniser art

politics & current affairs

‘all that we had is gone’: my lament for war-torn khartoum (sudan)

paradise island lombok, its poisoned gold, and the children who suffer (indonesia)

ghanaian children wrongly taken in raids backed by us charity ijm

behind washington’s decision to supply cluster bombs to ukraine

lumumba’s tooth returned, racist logic of colonisation endures (drc/belgium)

operation trojan shield: the secret country that helped fbi wiretap the world

history, culture, & personal essays

the last place on earth any tourist should go

how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against ai

the horrors of pompeii

can barbenheimer bring cinema back – and save us from 40-hour tv series?

we are all animals at night

read 'em and weep: a reading list for criers