Downtown Line Stage 1 & 2 Station Names confirmed
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Originally posted by kench-an:
Sadly an even larger majority do not know or care about Tan Kah Kee...
I still prefer calling it Hwa Chong stn
then I can say it's a disgrace tat the new gen of Singkies dun know their rootsNanyang Uni, Ngee Ann College, Hwa Chong, Chung Cheng, Nanyang all these were all set up by e Chinese community
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Originally posted by SBSTransport:
I am not amazed that HCI will make all ways to vote for it. They seems to forget what is the meaning of a public station. Also they really should read up their history on their founder & "their piece of land". I find this naming of their station after their founder is really more like a permanent advertising for their school. No offence to HCI's students, staffs, ex-students & ex-staffs. But I just expressing my own thoughts.
Haha! What a joke "their piece of land"... They should realise that they don't have a choice for if govt want land, govt will get the land. Haven't they heard of the "Land Acquisition Act"?
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Originally posted by simnatic:
Haha! What a joke "their piece of land"... They should realise that they don't have a choice for if govt want land, govt will get the land. Haven't they heard of the "Land Acquisition Act"?
you sure?till to this date, NTU actually sits on e land donated by e Chinese community for Nanyang Uni..
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Originally posted by tvcnq:
NUH station considered or not? Its opening in 2-3 years time.
Used to be called NUH station for the working name, after which it was renamed to Kent Ridge. -
Looks like NP is gg to benefit from DTL 2 by getting an MRT station nearby at King Albert Park, after NYP (Yio Chu Kang) and SP (Dover) got theirs.
Also to add on TP with DTL 3 along Tampines West.
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Originally posted by SBS8258Y:
Looks like NP is gg to benefit from DTL 2 by getting an MRT station nearby at King Albert Park, after NYP (Yio Chu Kang) and SP (Dover) got theirs.
Also to add on TP with DTL 3 along Tampines West
with the distance of the station and e need for bus connection, I believe end up many might still prefer direct bus depending on their travelling pattern -
Originally posted by SBSTransport:
I am not amazed that HCI will make all ways to vote for it. They seems to forget what is the meaning of a public station. Also they really should read up their history on their founder & "their piece of land". I find this naming of their station after their founder is really more like a permanent advertising for their school. No offence to HCI's students, staffs, ex-students & ex-staffs. But I just expressing my own thoughts.
Sure, no problem. :)
Personally, I find that your arguments are firmly established by impressionistic ideas and many of them, very subjective.
Firstly, you feel that Benjamin Shears should be more honored. Fine, no problem. But there is no way that you can measure the public sentiment statistically, if Benjamin Shears is more honored or Tan Kah Kee is more honored. Anyone can easily say Tan Kah Kee should be more honored. (Go and ask those older generations) Besides, you hardly knew about Tan Kah Kee, as you've admitted in the first place! How can you callously arrive at your thoughts that "So what if he donate alot of money and it is honored, Benjamin Henry Sheares is our president, shouldn't that be even more honored?" ?
Secondly, you said that the Shears Bridge is more prominent. Sorry, but I personally feel that the Marina Promanade as a whole is much more prominent. So that renders your 2nd argument very flimsy too. If you look at the radius of the Watten estate/ Duchess estate + HC, where the MRT is built, which is the most prominent "area" there? Duchess estate? Watten estate? Come on, are they as "prominent" as the plot of land where Hwa Chong sits in? (Of course, if you insist that Duchess and Watten are more well-known than Hwa Chong, I've nothing to say. -_- )
Could I also kindly direct you to check-up on the exact location of the MRT station lest you reveal your ignorance inadvertently again. Let's not talk about the school, but the plot of land the station is built on. Where is it? A plot of land holding HC or NYGH? It is HC. So please do not digress to mention other schools, because the MRT is located just outside HC campus, and it so happens that the immediate plot of land which the MRT is built on is very "prominent", hence the naming.
Of course if you didn't graduate from Hwa Chong, I wouldn't blame you if you see this as an act of permanent advertising, but unfairly preaching that "they really should read up their history on their founder & "their piece of land", when you yourself hadn't done so in the first place, really stinks of hypocrisy. Besides, what makes you think they hadn't done their reading up?
No offense meant, and thanks for reading my thoughts.
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Originally posted by jerryonhere:
It should be since Caldecott is near Mediacorp Headquarters...Correct me if I'm wrong here...
Who knows, you may see Fann Wong and Christopher Lee on the train ... ... -
Originally posted by nganmatthias:
Who knows, you may see Fann Wong and Christopher Lee on the train ... ...Film TV show on train...
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Originally posted by NickL_C151:
Maris Stella High School already has a station at the doorstep. Bartley station.
the only ITE have MRT at the doorstep..ITE Macpherson and Macpherson Station xD
wait till next year
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Originally posted by simnatic:
Haha! What a joke "their piece of land"... They should realise that they don't have a choice for if govt want land, govt will get the land. Haven't they heard of the "Land Acquisition Act"?
And you might not know that the Hwa Chong Institution Clock Tower is Singapore's reserved heritage, additionally, no one is opposing the use of the land. It's not a matter of whose land it belongs to but the philosophy and history beneath that plot of land which concludes the name of the Downtown station.