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Tuesday, June 05, 2018 - 20:18 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

All Roads Converge

Fine, I'll admit it - despite longstanding reservations about the local population (Ponzi) strategy, I remain quite the fan of new construction actually. Thus, it was with mixed feelings that I beheld Mahathir's (expected) throwing of a wrench into the HSR plans. On the one hand, we're out this beaut, which would moreover have greatly aided Jurong's elevation to being a second Central Business District:


That SimCity vibe
(Source: propertyguru.com.sg)


...but on the other hand, I've got to hand it to Mahathir (who's also effecting TRUMPIAN traits, with trolling entering the mainstream of international diplomacy) for having the willpower to be guai lan on behalf of his country. [N.B. aside-aside on Tony Fernandes, who was chatting it up with Yossi Vardi at today's Innovfest unBound; Fernandes was questioned at one point as to his most humiliating moment, but the banter didn't stretch quite as far as his controversial U-turn on Najib just a few weeks back. A (crooked) bridge too far for the venue, I guess.]

While we're on infrastructure geekery, it's oddly soothing to just visualize just how far the road outside one's home reaches - consider for example the Asian Highway 1, which stretches over 20000km from Tokyo to Turkey (alright, with a ferry crossing to South Korea, and questionable connections within North Korea and Myanmar), and then another 6000-plus km to Lisbon on the European E80 (China has their eye on another transcontinential highway). Although we're not along AH1, we are on Asian Highway 2 - which is designated to pass through to Indonesia, go figure. Perhaps we can get a tunnel someday...



Tokyo.




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