Originally Posted by
Snail
There are several points:
1) Getting girls to MGS from Maplewoods is not actually the issue because a hole can be put in the fence. The question in how do kids from Nexus, Cascadia, landed etc. get to MGS safely as well since, for sure their only options are to walk along the newly constructed road over the river OR walk through MW via any new hole in the fence. If MW starts letting just anybody through to the school, then where is the security/privacy.
2) There is talk of 2,000-2,500 trucks a day waiting at the (only) entrance/exit of MW for access to the tunnel launch site. This is one truck basically every two minutes at a convergence point of Bkt Timah Rd, MW and the launch site. Under LTA design these trucks would wait in a holding area at MW entrance whilst at the same time traffic from MW have to negotiate a +1m slope onto the new road over the river, whilst at the same time kids are having to walk to/from school. This is all whilst, at the same time, one truck every two minutes is trying to access Bkt Timah Rd also via the +1m slope to the road extension.......whilst fully laden.
Bkt Timah is jammed enough at times without 2kph trucks trying to negotiate +1m slopes around corners. Remember also, Bkt Timah is now only 3-Lanes instead of the previous 5-Lanes.
3) This convergence point is made worse in the morning given the new road layout would prevent school buses from accessing MW that would then (during rush hour) wait on Bkt Timah Rd for kids. They wait on the road at Sterling, but there now is 4-Lanes wide.
4) MW would have no means of getting garbage out of the estate. The only pick-up point is on Bkt Timah Road with no means of the refuse truck getting to the pick up point from inside the estate..... obviously nobody from LTA even did a walk-through/passed.
5) Alpine GmbH have themselves declared the launch site picked by LTA to be the least desirable of other options in the area.
I might suggest that instead of picking on MW owners (I'm not) you might want to question the LTA before they screw with you next time without asking questions first. In this case they appear not to have done their homework.
'Relocations' or otherwise would not have been an issue, most likely if LTA had asked residents and the engineering contractors for inputs at the time of design. I appreciate that LTA would have found this too much 'work' to discuss such matters for each and every station but, well, SG people are not paying peanuts to foreign companies and workers to sit on their thumbs. Oh wait, yes they are, now.