Please lah, I am not like LKY, say stop at 2 means stop at 2 otherwise, summon, school disadvantage/ even Communist China gahmen: force U have abortion. This is modern world, many moving parts.
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Lots of red herring here... Maybe you can start a fish farm...
MY conclusion is Advocates of cycling ignore the reality of life....
But let me entertain you a bit...
If more cycle, population will be fitter, Medishield-life payouts will decrease, extra $$$ saved can improve public transport and build proper cycle tracks and toilet facilities of not more green spaces : e.g parks with proper toilets.
more cycle, more may get sports injuries. medishield-life payout may increase...
Public transport infrastructure will need to be changed to cater for the new mode of transport. aka more bike stands, bike lanes, toilets with shower...
guess where the money will come from?
More cycle from close by towns e.g. Lavender, TiongBharu, maybe even BuonaVista means less congestion/ MRT train overload/ hyper increase frequency etc. Also less exponential public transport/ bus fare rules increase cos people more independent, don't need to 100% depend on motor vehicle transport. Your kids maybe more accepting of using public transport: easier to get seats cos able bodied cycle.
So what about people now living in other estates? no need to work?
fare increased not peg to frequency. in fact with less people travelling on MRT, fare will have to increase even higher to enable the operators to "not make a lost".
You still have no solution for my kids in childcare?
Bout the toilet, technology will allow people to work from home, go office for important deals or meetings only, so not everyone must be at desk at 8.30am: time is staggered. Maybe even have indoor swimming pool/ park in business district: if Sink@poor is sufficient funds and land for that.
This is more about work from home. got nothing about cycling...
staggered working hours? According to US/UK or Jap financial market?
Its all about planning long term. Unfortunately, since we seem to be followin the USA path of high carbon consumption and high chronic disease prevalence with Obama care being the resultant permanent stop-gap solution (kicking the can down the road), all I have said might just be a pipe dream.
Is it short term planning or lack of long term planning? or blind following of USA? Identify the problem properly will allow you to push your agenda and solve the problem...
And as public transport improves with lesserload factor (some PT com!users switch to cycling), overall PT experience improves and some existing motorcar users switch to using PT: COE prices then do not have to further increase.
As long as the govt wants coe prices to go up, it will. just reduce the supply below the demand. nothing about cycling can solve the problem...
BTW, when I was in SAF, shower was 1 minute,...
And you were saying something about "Please lah, I am not like LKY, say stop at 2 means stop at 2 otherwise, summon, school disadvantage/ even Communist China gahmen: force U have abortion. This is modern world, many moving parts."...
So you still have no solution about the long waits for shower, and the eventual longer time needed away from family that your cycling proposal will create.
Please do take into account of human nature in your proposal. Otherwise, your proposal will be no better then the ivy tower proposals we have been seeing...