Naming roads and streets after Singaporeans

tanjun SG

What do you all think? Is that a possibility of changing current road names? SM Goh has highlighted this in today’s The Straits Times and I agree with this to honour Singaporeans who have contributed a lot to the country.

Ito_^ SG

dun wan la.. as if the current names isn’t confusing enough.

[email protected] SG

He saying must put all PAP MPs' names in the street name so that ppl will always remember PAP and its contributions. Cool

SBS9828X SG

Laughing

SBS2798U SG

How abt renaming Singapore Changi Airport to...

Singapore LKY International...

Ito_^ SG

den spitting on the streets will become a national hobby. Twisted Evil

mistyblue SG

rename
Marine parade to Harry Parade?
Tanjong Pagar to Harry Pagar?

Just you wait. Soon their faces will be on the money as well.

Will they also build a gold statue and have the statue look down on us mere mortals?

Volvo Olympian SG

LOL , No need to rename one lah , so confusing... Laughing

tanjun SG

Laughing sounds impressive

can rename yio chu kang as yoz Chu Kang and Choa Chu Kang as Phua Chu Kang.

ditzy SG

I'm still trying to figure out who lim tua tow was. Laughing

Volvo Olympian SG

Lim Chu Kang = Lymz Chu Kang? Mr. Green Laughing

Bukit Panjang rename the english version : Long Hill

same for Bt batok , Cough hill

autumncs SG

No need to rename lah....

In the future, when new roads are built in Marina downtown or Punggol New Town or other new towns, all the "fanciful names" can be applied onto the new roads...

The fanciful names can also be applied to new schools, new hospitals, new institutes etc etc...

If you wanna a place to be named after you, you can donate a lot a lot of money... NUS has a lot of examples, such as Yong Siew Toh conservatory of music, Yong Loo Lin school of medicine, CJ Koh Law Library, Hon Sui Sen Business Library, etc etc...

Maybe I should aspire to earn a lot a lot of money, and then donate it to some organisation, and a place will be named after me!!! Hehe...

SexyChin SG

You mean every road in the future would have a name wth a Lee in it? Shocked

NickL_C151 SG

Confusing lah... Then they have to put up signs like these (pics from kennysia.com):

One road, two names. One new, one old. Kinda defeats the purpose of changing its name isn't it?

Then if got similar names:

Then we have to start remembering names using food:

Then we have names that are too long:

tanjun SG

Just a qn, for the pics that you have shown, are they major roads or expressways? Didn't know there is a road called Tank Road in Singapore till some TV shows broadcast about it.

autumncs SG

Haha... That is interesting...

If changing the name of one road is bad enough, imagine changing the names of almost every roads in a city... Such massive name-changing occured in history before, especially when a country is taken over by a new political party or when it gains independence. Examples include India (changing British names to Indian names) and Vietnam (changing French names to Vietnamese names). As for Singapore, we treasure our colonial heritage and we keep all the road names intact. (Dunno whether it's a good or bad thing. But at least it makes life easier for historians.)

I myself would be resistant to name changes... Several years after the MRT changed its station numbering system, I still have difficulty remembering the new numbering system... (I tend to think of Bedok as E8, AMK as N9, Boon Lay as W12, etc...) Sad

FBI SG

this will only happeneed in taiwan

I-like-flings(m) SG

dun need so troublesome lah.. just rename singapore and LKY island lor, and everyplace in this island start with LKY Evil or Very Mad

tanjun SG

Oh that reminds me. Does anyone know why MRT rename its station numbering system? Is it because of NEL and the future CCL? Till now, I still can't remember the new numbering system for the different stations.

toll123 SG

there is a ho ching road in Singapore you know Mr. Green