6.5m people in 2015 & Plenty of Land

lionnoisy SG

Ready Land supply ahead of Demand
many,incl sg people ,think and say,sg is small in land .
Therefore the development potential is limited.
If they talk about hinterland within the country,
they are right.But now it is an era of global city.
The whole world is Sg hinterland.

2.Sg can make and export goods and services (
like how to purify water )to any country.

3.Land is Sg is plenty .Hv u noticed there are few
pices of big empty land around most of the MRT stations?

For commercial---Marina South and east double office
floor area .

For Industrial----Jurong Island and Changi East,there
are minimum 40 km2 or 4,000 ha,or area equal to 3 Changi airport
which is 1250 ha.

For residential,Puggol is still half filled.Simpan,east of Yishun
is designated for New Town.

Land area of Spore

.........km2
year..area .........population
1992...641.0.......2.81m(citizen +PR),foreigner unknown
2002...680.0.......4.16m--(3.38m, citizen+PR)and(0.785m foreigner)
2005...699.1.......4.33m
2015...730.0.......6.5m(land and pop. est)

But Spore can be reclaimed to 759 km2

With only 660 square kilometres today(2001),....
Future reclamation can increase our existing land size by another 15 per cent.

4.There are plenty of ready Land for development.
Unless u close ur eyes when u move around Marina East
and South.
Unless u close ur eyes when u in or out of Changi ,
Unless u close ur eyes when u ride in the upper
deck of a bus from Boon Lay MRT to Tuas,

Below:Note the reclamation in Jurong Island is almost completed,while reclamation in Tuas East Extension is being carried out..
Two projects will add 40 km2 of land.Jurong Is. now is 30km2.

In end of 2004 ,Sg is 699 km2.
In the past 10 years,53km2 has been added.fr Statistics Dept.Yes 5300 ha.
Equal to 4 Changi airport.

know more of our future land,use Changi Naval Base as reference point

know each of the zone in detailsclick INTRODUCTION

more
satellite images of Spore--old and new

6.5 million in 2015?
5.
Pg 21 ,Table 3.1 est electricity usage increse 53 % fr 2005 to 2015
---38,213 to 58,558 GWh.http://www.ema.gov.sg

If we assume population grows in proportion with this rate,
then there will be 6.65 million in 2015,say 6.5 million.

u can calculate with this Historical Yearly Electricity Consumption (in GWh) from 1986 to 2005

jaydunkfull SG

im predicting more social problems

Kohi SG

the poor will have to make way for the rich Crying or Very sad

Meilin86 SG

The poor will be suffering…..

the Bear SG

NB… they think we are termites izzit?

Meilin86 SG

We are a group of busy termites, running inside a small wooden log. Not enough call in for more logs.

coolgeek84 SG

Rubbish, what if there are empty spaces available? We can't possibly use all the "greenlands" we have right?

Just imagine, like that, there will be no greenery anywhere! Concrete jungle everywhere you see. Singapore has already so much concrete everywhere. No countryside whatsoever will be left.

The next thing you hear there will be a "Ubin Point Shopping Center" with cineplex, food court and all opening up in Pulau Ubin.. :/

Please! All small countries are in trouble regarding land. Accept the fact.

aRcTiC_sTaR SG

The old will have to make way for the new/young.

lionnoisy SG

Go to see Puggol this weekend.still half empty,can house
200,000 to 300,000 people.

go to Marina South,all empty land for office and home.

go to Jurong Is(sorry restricted area) ,but can go to Tuas,big enough
to build another airport.

under load Google earth to view spore few years ago.

u have not just open ur eyes,have to open your mind.

dunt trust me.see for yourself then we caN TALK HERE.

charlize SG

Yes.

Termites with lots of cash to squeeze out from. Laughing

red_amoeba SG

yah 6.5m, of which 60% made up of so-called FTs....who will not hesitate to disappear when things are bad....

Whilst we LTs here stay behind & suffer....

Anycall SG

Singapore will be an exact copy of Hong Kong in the near future. Housing will be so much smaller in size. Property prices will be so expensive that it will be out of reach for an average citizen.

Hong Kong depended on a huge influx of foreign expats as well. Which also caused the extremely high living costs. And by foreign expats I mean ang mohs who get extravagant paychecks just to work there.

Now Hong Kong is already trying to cut down on such foreign expatriates. And where do you think their next stop is? A country where costs are lower, cleaner air, high pay, cheaper housing, etc. And the gahmen welcomes and encourages such an influx.

To get a working visa there is not as easy as before. I have actually heard an immigration officer in the immigration office in kowloon asking an employer who is trying to get a working visa for his employee from the states, what is it about the job that he cannot hire a local instead of hiring a foreigner.

I was quite taken back by that question as foreigners are usually welcomed with open arms in Hong Kong just like Singapore.

But from what some of my colleagues there are saying, there is actually an on-going trend to hire locals instead of turning to foreigner expats. So will Singapore go through the economic saturation Hong Kong went through before it realises something must be done to curb costs and over reliance on them?

lionnoisy SG

hong kong FT
sad to tell u most of FT in HK are maids.
HK,lack of manufacturing,dunt hire FT so much.check it out.
HK is more against FT. less than 5% of undergraduate are foreign student ,
Spore is about 20%.

HK's Universities pay S$100,000 to get top
PRC student study there,by way of like bidding .
But HK people dunt like more foreign coming.

Size of 3 rm HDB flat in HK is considered big

Spore air is much clean than HK.

pl read
Messy HK educationfor they ,literally,run for a place in Form 6.

elindra SG

I thought Singapore is also slowly sinking into the ocean due to all the weight Laughing

Dogtor SG

Punggol - poor access - no good expressways to reach rest of country. Forget public transport - citizens live here and we consume like eveyone else in larger countries, ie suburban lifestyle. 2 cars in 4 car garages -waiting for kids to get driver licenses, drive everywhere, except the current government is obstructionist ....

It's a chicken and egg, catch-22 situation. Not enough people so does not justify building roads, no roads mean no one wants to go there. This ain't the American west being opened up. Government should just built or have private operators build toll roads (spell ERP), if too expensive less traffic then cannot recover costs - transfer risk to private sector. Then they bankrupt, we get free road.

Marina South is reclaimed land, so if build tall high-rise office buildings - question of stability of land right? So sometime required for settlement of the land - maybe some geologist/civil engineer type can comment on optimal time and cost of structural modifications required for building on reclaimed land.

Ain't Tuas - training grounds for SAF. ?staging area for anti-terror activities against a suspect neighbour with racist intents?

charlize SG

Hong Kong too crowded, people can just go across the border to China.

In Singapore? Unless you like to stay in the sea ... Laughing

coolgeek84 SG

Dude! You didn't get my point. Yes we have space to have more people. Yes we can build more buildings. But do Singaporeans want that actually? There is already more or less no countryside in this country. Probably you have never seen countryside as most Singaporeans also would not have seen.

At least in HK you can drive for an hour or two and reach nice hills and nature. Can you do that in Singapore? No way.. I am not a civil engineer, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out how much heat will be captured by the concrete present on the land.

And dogtar's reply was great =)

Meilin86 SG

You are Right!!
Singapore will be overheated one day like a CPU processor!!! Moreover so many concrete underground which are able to trap heat.
It is very hot to walk along Shenton Way in the afternoon with such a cramp space, vast number of people and huge concrete structure. Sigh......................We are like Ri Wuo Shang De Ma Yi ( Fried Termites on the heaty pan)

drawer SG

Termites?.....Nah,i think we are more like dead sardines which being squeeze into a tin can waiting to be shipped overseas. Mr. Green

drawer SG

Exactly!!!Hong Kong ppl can still move toward inland China if they felt too crowded.In Singapore,when we are too crowded,we can move to where?Malaysia?Will Malaysia give a damn about us or our PAP leaders?No way man.