Why Singapore Is Insanely Well Designed 

Wow

Finally, a singapore video

Good work my man, keep it up!

Great video! At 8:56 you maybe wanted to show only the light red coloured parts, but it already shows the dark red ones as well, not sure if it was intended to become visible after the animation? Anyway the video is amazing. :)

COE figures are outdated. CAT B now is 110K SGD lol...

Yeah but thats a good thing. I dont want to be a rat in a small appartment.some more medium density buildings could be added. But suburbs are populaire for a reason.

@@RK-cj4oc and it's not good.

@@ShubhamMishrabro Ok..... People made the decision that we didn't want to live stacked on top of one another. We wanted to own acreage with a nice home.

@@RK-cj4oc suburbs are popular in the USA because it's difficult (illegal) to build decent apartments (in terms of their surroundings). American zoning laws.

@@MooreInteresting people didn't government did. That's there is growing resentment against suburbs.

@The Cycle fast food here is like 10 dollars for a full meal dunno what it is in other areas but its pretty high compared to local foods

Don't tell them about that one time the NS line broke down like 20 times in a span of few months

I think the train is full at the between 6:00 to 7:00 5:30 gets rlly bad but not very bad cause in 1 to 3 stops you can find a seat

@@Numberonesorabjifan the breakdowns are minimal now. It's very efficient and clean.

@The Cycle depends on what you order. At most burger fast food restaurants, you can get a cheeseburger set meal that includes a soft drink and small fries for under SGD $7

But Singapore is also a third world country

@@aa.r2588 no, second country. Singapore is commonwealth

@@aa.r2588 third world country definition by google,the term has come to define countries that have high poverty rates, economic instability and lack basic human necessities like access to water, shelter or food for its citizens. These countries are often underdeveloped, and in addition to widespread poverty, they also have high mortality Singapore is far far away for any of the things described here

I assumed it was first world since my parents own Lee Kuan Yew’s autobiography called “Third World to First”

@@aa.r2588 singapore is first world what are you on about

really meh? im singaporean and im still young and i love singapore.

@@entgay3767 Singapore is different for everyone, some people find it tough to cope with the very rigid structure of the education system, while others find that it works for them.

@ ns quite fun la. Don’t be so negative leh

@@ck260594 well we will have to fimd out (I in sec sch not ns ok)

@@AllTime- can la. When I was your age I also don’t like. But I met one of my closest friends in ns. Train tgt, punish tgt, eat tgt. Can say as close as brothers

It seems like historically Singapore needed European powers to give them their own brand new nationality divided between many ethnicities. If it weren’t for those people you guys would be Malaysians.

Majunya Singapura!

@@nessesitoburrito8873 I like how you expressed your ignorance. With great certainty!

@@nessesitoburrito8873 i am glad i am not born a Malaysian. Wouldnt want to be treated like a second class citizen where privileges are given to the malays based on birthright. . The Chinese community in malaysia contributed to Malaysia as much as the Malays but yet they cannot advance far. No matter how well they performed in school or at work, they are always ranked behind the Malays. This is why chinese in malaysia can hold loyally on to their cultures and heritage and even feel closer to China. When Malaysia discarded Singapore in the 60s where singapore had nothing , our respected LKY resolved to ensure everyone is given equal opportunity regardless of race, language or religion. For that i say i am proud to be a Singaporean. We worked hard for our success not by chance or given privilege. We honour too the pioneer generation who helped built Singapore. Which nation does that? Some may frown or even despise our policy of meritocracy but what are we suppose to do but to be the best n to get the best qualified pp to run the country. This is a realistic and harsh world. Singapore have no 2nd chance for failure. This was and is the clearest message we learn in our civic classes - we have no one except ourselves as singaporeans to lean on. What the government can do is to provide the best environment they can, at the same time try to help those at the bottom of the social ladder. Rule the country by tough laws but at the same time, make sure the majority of the singaporeans' needs such as home, food, transportation are looked into n provided adequately. In some countries, the so called midde income group are earning lesser than our average worker here. So are our average worker unfortunate? My auntie who worked as a cleaner could afford to send my cousins through university all because of bursaries given. I have had students who couldnt afford their school fees being taken care of by sponsors. There are a lot of kind souls who gained successnin life and still given back to society. Being richer as a nation, means we can afford to give back more to help those in need. So far we have no one dying of starvation or left cold without a roof over their heads. Go see the homelessness in US, europe, Japan ..it is true living costs are higher and money not enough at times, but there is always help available if asked. True , the rich are flocking to our shores, but at the same time, they are paying higher taxes be it buying properties. , The professionals or talents we are inviting dont not enjoy the utilities subsidies, occasional government pay out in cash given only to sg citizens. No perfect world, no perfect government. Give Singapore credit for doing well and stop bashing and finding fault with us if we do better than your own countries.

@@nessesitoburrito8873 Funny how that is completely untrue and they're better off than all the European countries asides from a few Scandinavian ones. Singaporeans have a higher IQ than you do and a more successful country than you have.

I love this for them

Don’t forget the huge transport mess in Jakarta/Bangkok/ KL / Vietnam cities .

In Europe too.

Even my country's system is better than your sorry excuse of one.

@@wjj7488 underated city

Even India has an incredible metro system in their capital city. I don't know if they replicated it to any other cities though

sometimes the problem are the people. not the government. in SG u only deal with urban folks. while in malaysia u had to deal with rural,urban folks. different people make different outcome. if u just managed KL, im sure msia already in par with singapore

I think Malaysia will go as far as Singapore will but it may take some time, a lot of time in fact. As from my understanding, Malaysians have this mentality of not trying to outreach to other 1st world country to ask "How are they doing it?". If they could get over it, Malaysia will fly up as high as Singapore did and for Singapore, i think they'll progress more and more and i'm excited to see how they will handle the economy and population in the future. Much love for both countries!

Malaysia’s ramlee burger, bone soup and seafood are very good

@@apostolosvelios malaysia gov is the problem. We were one malaya, there was not that much separating Singapore and malaysia in terms of culture, language or history back then. I wouldn’t blame malaysian people for the failure of their leaders.

@@lucyfiniarel2347 gov had to follow the perlembagaan/constitution. even if 222 MP agree it still could not be implemented/abolish/amended. people in east malaysia doesnt have the same narrative as the malayan voter. even so east coast voter doesnt share the same narrative as west coast, south voter. let alone chinese,indian voters has different thought than malay voter. malay voter also divided into 2. rural and sub urban not sharing the sama narrative as i said, different people different outcome. sometimes gov not the problem but the people are

Lol Guangzhou they say gwang SU

Very much disturbed by his pronunciation of simple words

Ever heard of someone pronouncing Tampines as tam-pines (pine tree??) Somehow fascinating & cute to hear mispronounces

Yeah lol

@@ignatiushie4403 Maybe the correct pronunciation sounds too much like 'p****' for OBF not to get de-monetized

It is more likely we learn from Japan in some ways. More often that not it's just coming to the same conclusions because the needs are the same, and there are a very few ways of achieving the desire outcome in the most effective way.

We build sheltered walkways from bus stops to hdb flats or from mrt to malls coz spore is hot n humid

which country are you in again? didn't quite catch that

Maaaaaan eisuke San lives with me!!

nice to visit, meh to live in, i just dont like cities and find them very stressful and claustrophobic

Caveat: you can live quite happily if you live a “normal”, socially accepted lifestyle. Government policies on housing, for example, are strongly tied to marriage.

@@matthewchang8082 true. But thats the reality in any other country as well. In terms of housing, you also have to understand that the demand for housing greatly exceeds the output. Of course, greater priorities in the governments eyes have to be set.

No joke the only reason why we were so fucking well-planned infrastructure and policy wise was thanks to a one party state. We are the world's only surviving dictatorship that succeeded past its leader's death.

Honestly, Singapore is authoritarian-ish because Singaporeans are content mostly to let the government work. When they are unhappy, they do show up and vote and take a few seats away to punish the ruling party. I still remember a GE some years back when the ruling party actually lost a number of seats and they started panicking. To say Singapore is not a democracy betrays a very shallow understanding of Singapore and democracy itself. Singapore is not an adversarial type western liberal democracy where the government is thought to be democratic only if there are adversarial opposing parties with near parity power. Singaporeans don't really believe in that because they want political stability more than window dressing politics so common in the west. Just look at how ron desantis sent migrants to Martha Vineyard as a performative political stunt against the dems. Singaporeans will find desantis's behavior to be baffling, childish and intolerable. They want the government to govern with the country's interests in mind, not play juvenile games for votes. It is more apt to describe it as a pragmatic, technocratic democracy.

Singaporeans only know how to bark in social media but balls dropped at the voting booth

The Singapore Public transport system is so good that we didn't need to buy a personal vehicle there.

Same, never owned a car in my life here in SG lol.

​@@yeshwathram6197 i think i will never buy a car even if i can afford one. waste of money + will generate more pollution. why would i ever need one with the bus and the mrt?

@@boiongoingong Exactly and with the expansion of mrt lines in the future, having a car is pretty much useless.

Though I'm not sure how SPCA feels at having been moved to Sg Tengah which is almost 2km from the nearest bus stop. My hostel also hosted a mock conference where delegates could visit various embassies, & those visiting Switzerland's one commented @ having to walk almost 1/2h to the nearest public transport

Interesting.

well basically its kinda hard to mess up such a small country where resources (hardworking population, $$) are pooled together in a small proximity. Only credit i can give to the gov is that they were not that corrupted in the early stage. Now? Its just legalized corruption.

@@jkyotube legalized corruption in singapore? enlighten me please

@@kayposia4997 who owns our national bank, transport, power, land, cpf?

Urban planning in Singapore is top notch.

Sounds like new players in cities skylines

"listen bro, we need more parking lots, you hear me? I mean really who need shops and houses and whatever, just demolish them. Parking lots are where its at bro"

haha. i felt that

@@FreSch_Dude Nah nah cities skyline players are much smarter than that. They will add huge roundabouts on extreme zones or improve the public transportation by adding metros or trolley buses.

@@shikamaruthehokage He said new players lol.

Nailed it

Same in New Zealand. Car-based and not public transport, it's great if you want to catch a train into the city, but getting between suburbs is a hassle. Also Auckland has no trains in the North Shore City.

Us also had the luxury of space, which lead to population density being super low

@@randomuser5443 purposeful policies, decisions caused that. Having plenty of space is no excuse for terrible transportations policies, and today's US cities and residential areas are horse shit, if you're without a car you're screwed. It's hard to get anything, go anywhere without a car.

@@randomuser5443 The amount of free space only allowed this kind of sprawl, it is absolutely not the reason for it. Prior to the 60s and 70s US cities were much much denser (and then they bulldozed it all for parking lots and highways)

Wish you have a wonderful time in Singapore ^^

Welcome....welcome....

haha, why not?

@share accidental I have currently returned back to the US to finish my degree but dear God do I miss singapore so much.

⁠I’m heavily considering moving to the Netherlands due to its lack of car centric infrastructure and I’ll need some help.

Ive always loved flyovers while growing up in Hong Kong and am baffled its not more widespread globally (also MTR system is just

Especially as rain in this country is often accompanied by strong winds that cause the rain to fall @ up to a 45° angle, making smaller sheltering tools e.g. umbrellas (as compared to covered walkways) less effective

I've never seen much coverage on these covered walkways and they're criminally underrated

Its crazy how when I go out, bringing an umbrella is not a consideration since majority of my routed are covered walkways

Yes, the reverse osmosis process also takes out most of the minerals. These minerals have to be added back for drinking purposes.

Thank you for loving our city 😁

@kingcook Its a dictatorship with one of the lowest birth rates in the world. Its not a utopia.

No offense, but you’d get bored easily when you’re actually here.

Dude, only expensive cars on the road? Where were you? No way. I think we've got a pretty average range of cars here with lots of low-mid end together with industrial vehicles like trucks and vans to balance out the expensive cars. Even in this video you're not seeing luxury cars...

@@funkehfunkeh I was downtown, not too far from Marina Bay Sands in what I was told the financial district. Also the women and taxi drivers I met basically said few could afford the taxes on a car and those that could afford, could also afford expensive cars.

President is female

@@NewmaticKe That was what I was told. I'm not sure but I assume they were talking about Prime Minister (not President, my bad) Lee Hsien Loong's wife Ho Ching.

Glad to have you in SG!

i visited singapore when I was a kid with my family before covid. truely beautiful country. very envious of what you guys have. sincerely from a filipino.

@@krisostomoyabarrera2255 I feel sad for our ASEAN neighbors if only we could colonize you

noone in the world have sheltered walkway like singapore.

@@rjjrjehehew what a terrible way to suggest improving your neighbours way of living.

@@ak06041 ye lol 😂

shut up

West coast North American cities treat transit systems as some sort of welfare whether they want to admit it or not. Conservatives think of it as welfare and therefor dislike having to give money to it and liberals think of it as welfare because they put the concept of equity above everything else Progressive activists find the idea of drugs and addiction being a bane to society to be a fallacy and as such refuse to prosecute those who smoke fentanyl on the trains around others. When these homeless people are offered shelter and government funded apartments with the caveat that they get clean they refuse the offer and continue to sleep on the trains In Seattle there are no fare gates at the light rail stations and fares were enforced by officers who check everyone on the train for tickets. After it was found that most of the people found to be evading fares were black activists protested against the transit agency and now fares aren’t enforced and more than 30 percent of riders now don’t pay fares. The transit agency has been in a fiscal crisis for months as a result These cities are openly legalizing and allowing degeneracy to take place. Just walk around the streets of Chinatown Vancouver BC to see the kind of “utopia” these activists have created

Even Europe is better.

BLM?😎😎

@@edenassos The American woes long predate that particular movement.

@ NYC had the best subway system in the world for many years until the far left took over. Outside of a few major cities, we just don't want to live in 200 sq. ft. apartments like you guys. I don't even know how you guys go on living like that, but please stop trying to force it on us and we won't try to force freedom of speech on you!

all of them also have high suicide rates.

@@azhariarif Only South Korea has a significantly higher suicide rate than the US. Factoring in all preventable deaths (homicides, traffic accidents, heart disease, etc.) the US performs absolutely abysmally compared to any of those countries

@@benlewis5312 the USA is outlier among western nations. Funny how you ignore that all East Asian countries have high suicide rates.

The entire SE Asia is a huge goldmine to explore. Singapore is good to be the hub. You stay for a few days to explore, then fan out to Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. Angkor Wat is a wonder of the world and definitely worth a visit although Cambodia is supposed to be very unsafe right now so until things improved, you might want to avoid going there.

Imagine forcing people to depend on the government for free movement

I watched this video hoping for an exploration of the difference in planning - working for the good of the greater number, rather than (conspiracy theory) for the profits of car-makers and oil companies.

@@JaKingScomez Imagine being in a hellhole and refusing to admit it because of ideologies.

Yup. Now they even text me about my latest property tax.

This is why straight-up democracy doesn't work.

@@myujokt733 or just longer term length

Instead of 4 years, why not 8 years per term?

And in the end you'll just be forgotten, or scorned as a liar for the rest of your life.

You must have good leadership for this to begin to work. Giving too much power to a corrupted government can have adversely different results. Them taking various steps back then to ensure the future (current) government stays uncorrupted is also something they've done well.

Ya but both will be built in the future :)

hence the dotted line.

Technically every single line is still under construction, or rather, a work in progress (given new stations and extensions are set to be added in the future)

Unlike California's High Speed Rail, it will be built and it will serve it's purpose!

It is actually in the urban planning already to turn entire city of Singapore into a cycling and walking friendly city. It’s being rolled out in phases.

@@mookingbird Yes the plans are progressing but sadly we have cyclist still abusing the road.

@@mookingbird What to say to that? Cyclist city: done! I live in Tampines and I am surrounded by new cycling paths, done by planners who don't know what they are doing. But I am sure they hit their KPI's if length is the only criteria. Obviously their sub-tasks are get the pesky cyclist off the road and do not obstruct car traffic. The guidelines for bike/pedestrian infrastructure are obviously still car centric and no plan helps you here to get it right.

This is very true. I'm an exchange student in Singapore now (I'm from Europe) and there are basically 0 cycle lanes where it is needed. Everyone just cycles on pedestrian sidewalks. That is my feeling of the city for now. It should get better by 2030 hopefully. Visited the URA building (Urban Redevelopment Authority) and seen their masterplan for next 10 years. But it always can get better of course, it still won't be a Dutch city in terms of bike infrastructure even in 10 years which is pretty sad.

@@fredfoo8346 This is true as well, it is still a very car centric city, even for pedestrians imo, there are lots of sidewalks (also love those sheltered sidewalks) but the design can be much better.

Making it out at a young age is quite difficult. I started a side hustle at 17, saved up and made some good investments. l'm 28,live on my own and having a good life for myself. Big ups to you and everyone out there trying

Sounds like plan, how do you put money to work?

@@hoshifuyo4494 Yes it sure is. I put in money in investments and get profits. That 's how I make more money without working. This does not sound new to you right ?

@@ibrahimfaizan6047 Thanks for replying me, I've heard so many people talk about investment but none had said how to do it right.

Am hoping on you can explain more on how you make extra income from investments

Singapore tiny cannot do anth what

r/ihadastroke@@matthewsum1752

upon to contrary believe idt us is that bad people were generally kind and afew odd ducks made it seem bad

we dont have a high speed rail😂, its just the national metro to say it :D from 🇸🇬

@@n9obs_win237 your train goes at 70mph in a small country, its pretty fast honestly. getting around the whole city for 45 to 60 mins is crazy

Not necessarily

I wish it were the case but the higher ups that control those major cities are driven by greed

or those who cycle for sport like me and have to keep under the 25km/h speed in pcn which dosent make sense hence I have to cycle on to road

Bike lanes definitely can still use more improvements and expansion.

@@gelinrefira Yes, many towns in USA have singapore beat on the none PNC paths. I had issues when i was taking my bike from some points to others. If it was off the PCN it was scetch. As an american, singapore drivers are agressive as hell. So was more scared there biking off the 100% bike paths. Another huge thing singapore could do is bikes on buses. In my city, buses have bike racks and can store like 5 bike son the front and back of the bus. In singapore the best i saw was you taking your foldable bike up and inside, even thought i think that isn't allowed? I suppose if the bus is not busy the driver won't care?

@@MoonLiteNite there is cctv in the bus that the bus captain can see so u might get caught there lol

@MeChupaUnHuevon it also just makes sense, if you HAVE to own a car to get somewhere in a place (a country in this case), its deffinitely not a good thing

Lies again? Fun Size

Its most likely the third option, that the lack of proper public transportation increased the demand for private transportation (cars), which created demand for road space for cars, ending in a self cycling civil engineering hell that is the american car centric urban design. All I see of america's infrastructure is a hell of bad mistakes piled upon each other, with no escape but to pile even more mistakes atop the trash heap.

@@mcs699 and what Is correct

The latter…sort of. The government made policy 70 years that created the car culture but now as they want to add more public transit it’s an issue because it’s such a car centric city.

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Spoken like a person who wants to live a China style authoritarian country.

Sounds like a degenerates heaven Californication hell. I heard in skidrow, they named it skidrow, because every street has a bunch of skidmarks and used heroine needles from actual homeless people. 🤢🤮

Violent crime is nearly unheard of in Singapore. Even better: a few weeks ago my bicycle wasn't were I parked and locked it. I reported the incident to the police, and within a week they had found my bike. (It turned out, I had accidentally parked it next to the loading zore for an office move, and the movers had happily shipped it across town. Nobody steals bikes in Singapore, after all.)

yeah but california from the start needed to be built denser, fully get rid of redlining, a housing first policy for homelessness. crime prevention alone isnt the answer

@@aahfeeki well, we cant go backwards, that’s for sure. We must deal with the city we live in, and make it more livable. That cannot happen until the crime is reduced and people feel safe. So that we can feel comfortable using public ways of transportation.