@@mechashadow I may consider doing it maybe in the future.Unless I am able to gain up courage to show my face on youtube and have a partner to help me film that.
This was recorded in 1988. Their infrastructure at his time was at least 20 years ahead. Everything looks so modern. Even the video is decent quality. The station is bright and fresh. The only thing that's distinctly 80's here is the people's fashion. You can tell by what people were wearing. But their surroundings is modern.
Watching this makes me really appreciate how much the MRT system has grown. I was born in the mid 90's,i didn't realise the system was so small then. Back then we can't even go to Changi Airport on train it seems
At the initial stage, there wasn’t a North-South, East-West line yet. I could board at Orchard and alighted at Tiong Bahru station directly, no transfer required. 😊
I am genuinely impressed that even after 35 years later, the MRT fare is still kept relatively low considering the multiple inflation. For comparison, back then it costed $1.10 from Toa Payoh to Clementi (2:43), now it has only increased to $1.75. Whereas our economic chicken rice has blown up from $1.00 (gone are the days of $1 chicken rice) to at least $2.50 now. 🤑
Actually adjusted for inflation, $1.10 in 1988 would've been $2.79 in today's money (using MAS' own inflation calculator. In fact, the cost has went down and/or remained very manageable.
Have tried one $2.50 chicken rice. But don’t have to travel for it. Anyway price is before 8pm only. I do have a video uploaded on my channel. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1MbIQ-pPeXQ.htmlsi=m5fioa9AX2p3odTY
I ate a $2.50 chicken rice recently before. The stall does mostly night business and the price is only for before 8pm. Heard there’s one in a Tampines East coffee shop also. Maybe some food kiosks at MRT stations like Woodlands or Yishun may still have $2.50 chicken rice.
This information video is so thoroughly professional that I don’t even know where to begin and end. I think it would help making public transport more popular today if they (preferably a highly skilled manager) dressed up in a suit and explained us - in a friendly way - why we shouldn’t litter. His hint about how other passengers feel about it, is a subtle reminder about social control - somebody will notice your behaviour - without feeling threatening. The name “stored value card” is well thought out, it makes you feel that you get an advantage every time you use it.
I remember those blue stored value cards. You can travel however far you liked with the amount left at the end. I think some people tried to use the card until there's 10c left, and then you can do a long journey with just 10c!
Interesting how people in the 80s speak very well. Even the ministers had more eloquence in their speech. Why is it getting worse despite better education system 😂
Thank you for sharing this :) , not a train enthusiast and also not born when the MRT first opened. it was really nice to see a part of Singapore when life was "simple" and when the MRT required a tutorial
My grandfather, while he was a project manager for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority in roughly this time period, took a visit to Singapore once to study their MRT. If we were still alive, I would show him the video, but in his final years he was also blind, so I wonder what he would make of the voice and sounds. Needless to say whatever wisdom he got from going to see the MRT he probably wasn’t able to effectively communicate to the folks running MARTA, if the state of the system today tells me anything.
I think that was just for the underground stations like Raffles Place. I remember normal aboveground stations like Tampines etc didn't have platform screen doors until maybe the 2010s.
Sinagpore was one of the first to implement these on a high capacity rapid transit system - keeps the cold AC inside the stations and the hot, humid air out!
Not all the stations have them, just in the very busy areas. And other areas, as a non-local, i have noticed that at one point they did have the doors and have removed them at some point. Not sure if damaged and cheaper to remove, or they removed just as cost savings and used them some place else.
I won't use transit in USA cause they all want cash, or prepaid cards and crap. But when i am in singapore, i use MRT all the time, paywave is magical :) so quick, don't gotta talk to anyone, don't have to bring money. And nowadays, don't even need a card, just my phone works!
I have an old travel guide to Singapore I was given as a kid (I was a very nerdy kid who loved maps, and growing up in Australia, I was very interested in SE Asia). The MRT map in it has the coloured lines indicating which direction the trains head in - like the green line being for east-bound trains. I thought that was such an interesting design choice when I was young. I don't think any other system had used that before. I guess when you are introducing a system to a public, portraying it like that would make it easier for users.
Exactly! When in a hurry I just look up for the right colour and I know I am in the right direction, provided I know which station I was at. But now with so many lines, they changed it to one colour for both directions of that line......they don't have enough colours to cover all lines and directions and it would also be chaotic with too many colours is what they told me
Remember that time when Singaporeans actually spoke better english than our ministers today (i.e. Lawrence Wong) and most CNA readers who are American wannabes? 😅
but there's no point trying to have a brit/american accent when we aren't brits or americans? he only "speaks better" to you because he's not using a singaporean accent
@@sxnchou Why is your idea of good English consists of British or American accents? That was not what I was saying but rather, I was condemning some news readers on CNA with pretentious American accents.
Watching this made me realise the Japanese lines haven’t really changed since the 80s other than adding Suica/IC cards, assuming they were ‘modernised’ around the same time.
They have. Tokyo metro and private train lines are now connected, so you can travel ridiculous distances without changing lines. There have also been numerous new express services to regional cities which didn’t exist then. AC systems have improved markedly since the 90s, and more than a few lines have had stations completely remodelled and refurbished. Punctuality and comfort are better and noise levels are lower in Japanese trains even today.
Life sucks, as you know. We were once excited about future developments, but I've come to realize that I prefer the simplicity of older days. I wish it could be permanent.
Interesting that SG had the ' north south east west bound ' system then! Thats modeled after the UK's (or at least london's) system. i was so confused there lol as a younger person
When these NEW stations have existed before 2001 💚🚇 W13 Pioneer W14 Joo Koon W15 Gul Circle W16 Tuas Crescent W17 Tuas West Road W18 Tuas Link W7A Dover E13 Expo E14 Changi Airport. 🛫 ❤🚇 N13 Canberra N19 Sungei Kadut M2 Marina South Pier. Right?
As a tall Northern European I have learned to be deeply respectful and bow to MRT doors and vertical rail - because if I don't, I almost certainly hit my head on them! (I've also learned that there are probably slight differences in the door and rail heights between different lines, although it might be just my imagination.) A local tall enough to be wary of the door height (or rather, lack of it) like the narrator is not that a common sight. There's clearly a difference in comparison to Northern European systems like MRT; if I would run out of one completely straight, practically both feet off the floor at the same time I might have a very slight chance to hit my head.
I think that would be like the brittish posh accent, or very netural accent. Like in UK they use that style for the news and stuff. Well they used to. Now they use normal voice
in the 70 80's even 90s, people dress sense hair style and social behaviour are very standard and very forgiving and most people are helpful. You can see people not gluing their eyes on their mobile phone. 2021 onwards, so many issues happening all around the worlds. Can you count the number of wars happening now?
ah yes the old floppy transitlink cards, so straight forward and simple. Not the crap they wanna force it down people throats and got U-turn after backlash LOL
