Remaking Yishun
2nd October 2007, Tuesday
Went to the "Remaking Our Heartland" exhibition by HDB yesterday by the Yishun MRT station, after being urged by Dad to check out what renovation the authorities has in store for our block...
By mere coincidence I got hold of my in-laws who were there like many inquisitive residents of our northen-based town to check out this roving exhibitions which HDB had taken much effort to rig up over last weekend...
While it seems like almost all the flats in the town would undergo the "Home Improvement Programme" which includes optional items like toilet renovations, iron grills for apartments, revamped rubbish chutes which we the citizens had to foot a "much-subsidized (need strong verification)" fees as well as items like rejuvenated piping or mending of cracked ceiling which at some places are long overdue...
Of course for my block which houses like thousands of households yet have a measly total of 3 elevators will surely need more of the mechanical tool to ascend to our respective levels...
There is also the "Neighborhood Renewal Programme" which basically just spice up the place with our hard-earn CPF money and yearly taxes..Nuff said..
A way for the government to beautify the heartlands which basically possess an attraction to compliment the Integrated resorts, Orchard Road, Sentosa and Mandai Zoo
Seriously it doesn't really do much to most of us heartlanders (suddenly I am thinking of Vincent Ng) except curbing the new facilities to be vandalized by those unruly brats during school holidays...
The more immediate issue at hand in my neighborhood is perhaps reducing the population of crows and other critters as well as educating people to not litter like they do daily from what I had witnessed every morning as I strolled to the MRT station...
However with the forthcoming Khoo Teck Puat Hospital a stone-throw from my home, plans were coined to revamp the entire Yishun Central area to include an unnamed institute (I believe should be anew polytechnic or university) which cuts diagonally across the Central as well as the latest fad in most established "hub neighborhoods", an air conditioned bus interchange cum shopping mall...yawn...seriously that's the best they could do?
There was also the construction of a new linkage to the Central Expressway which hovers across the Seletar Reservior area (which previously was pushed as a site for Disneyland in Singapore).
From the look at it, it basically only helps to facilitate traffic coming in from the SLE on weekends or peak hours rather than speeding up the journey to town....
It's been a decade since moving to Yishun, and seriously I don't see the need to venture around the neighborhood which is why I would look baffled if you ask me a specific location in the town...
But the blueprints for making this place a hub of the north certainly breaths life into a dying town and I always welcome a hike in our property value...
Went to the "Remaking Our Heartland" exhibition by HDB yesterday by the Yishun MRT station, after being urged by Dad to check out what renovation the authorities has in store for our block...
By mere coincidence I got hold of my in-laws who were there like many inquisitive residents of our northen-based town to check out this roving exhibitions which HDB had taken much effort to rig up over last weekend...
While it seems like almost all the flats in the town would undergo the "Home Improvement Programme" which includes optional items like toilet renovations, iron grills for apartments, revamped rubbish chutes which we the citizens had to foot a "much-subsidized (need strong verification)" fees as well as items like rejuvenated piping or mending of cracked ceiling which at some places are long overdue...
Of course for my block which houses like thousands of households yet have a measly total of 3 elevators will surely need more of the mechanical tool to ascend to our respective levels...
There is also the "Neighborhood Renewal Programme" which basically just spice up the place with our hard-earn CPF money and yearly taxes..Nuff said..
A way for the government to beautify the heartlands which basically possess an attraction to compliment the Integrated resorts, Orchard Road, Sentosa and Mandai Zoo
Seriously it doesn't really do much to most of us heartlanders (suddenly I am thinking of Vincent Ng) except curbing the new facilities to be vandalized by those unruly brats during school holidays...
The more immediate issue at hand in my neighborhood is perhaps reducing the population of crows and other critters as well as educating people to not litter like they do daily from what I had witnessed every morning as I strolled to the MRT station...
However with the forthcoming Khoo Teck Puat Hospital a stone-throw from my home, plans were coined to revamp the entire Yishun Central area to include an unnamed institute (I believe should be anew polytechnic or university) which cuts diagonally across the Central as well as the latest fad in most established "hub neighborhoods", an air conditioned bus interchange cum shopping mall...yawn...seriously that's the best they could do?
There was also the construction of a new linkage to the Central Expressway which hovers across the Seletar Reservior area (which previously was pushed as a site for Disneyland in Singapore).
From the look at it, it basically only helps to facilitate traffic coming in from the SLE on weekends or peak hours rather than speeding up the journey to town....
It's been a decade since moving to Yishun, and seriously I don't see the need to venture around the neighborhood which is why I would look baffled if you ask me a specific location in the town...
But the blueprints for making this place a hub of the north certainly breaths life into a dying town and I always welcome a hike in our property value...
Japanese word of the day: 復興させなさい (Revive) They can revive or rejuvenate as much as they want, as long as don't ask me to pay an extra penny...
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