TR EMERITUS

Which is better and cheaper? Build the MRT tracks and stations first before you build the housing estates and towns around them? Or build the town first then add on the MRT Network? It is a no brainer question but yet people want to argue for the sake of argument. The Hong Kong city planning methodology is Metro-centric, aka... 

MOT Minister Khaw has trivialized what he had claimed to be a preventable MRT tunnel flooding by not convening a COI. Since investigations have not been completed, Khaw should not anyhow own self conclude the cause of incident is ‘clear’. It is anything but. What is clear: huge systemic ‘cultural’ issues warrant convening... 

And that of their managers too please. I’m asking because I’m hearing rumours that the members of the maintenance team are all members of a particular minority, while their managers are all of another race. Whatever, race is important here. Amid calls from various quarters for Singapore to ditch its long-standing Chinese-Malay-Indian-Others...