Naming roads and streets after Singaporeans

last SG · 2006-12-07T20:47:53+00:00

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 show...

SBS9888Y SG

yupps and a tah ching, kang ching, yuan ching, yung ho, yung kuang, hu ching, tao ching, yung an and yung sheng road...
all in taman jurong... i take 154 very often so pass by there quite often

XTransbus SG

just imagine...........
Orchard Rd become XTransbus Rd

lol Laughing

sBs_boy SG

I would think that it was more because of the Changi Extension and the Dover Station.

NickL_C151 SG

Also for future lines. Like last time NSL is red and yellow. Circle line how?

Volvo Olympian SG

Circle line is orange i think...

tanjun SG

There are many colours to choose. Pink is used for NEL. Orange, Violet, Gold, Silver. Laughing

gd4u SG

Originally posted by autumncs:

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 [b]Yong Siew Toh conservatory of music, Yong Loo Lin school of medicine, CJ Koh Law Library, Hon Sui Sen Business Library, etc etc...
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The only name was i had the faintest idea to is Lee Kong Chian, His name is everywhere. But when SMU came to my school to introduce LKC SOB, the question on everyone mind's was who is LKC... I like was like, omg, luckily no one asked tt qn aloud ...

And IMO, satutes are erected to be pulled down .... remember Saddam's ???

Urroh SG

U should learn more about history. I think it help us to know who our pioneers are and not to glorify them. Lee Kong Chian is a pioneer of the Rubber Industry in Singapore. He promote education and alot of things.

Nowadays young people do not know who are their founding fathers are. That why our leaders are now suggesting so as to let them know about our founding fathers. Surely i do not support current leaders glorifying themselves.
In truth not everyone knows that Singapore coming to this modern city is not by LKY himself but from a cabinet of Ministers like Eddie Baker, Lim Kim San, Toh Chin Chye. Until they died then we remembered our pioneers after that we forgotten them again.

FYI, Saddam is a tyrant Dictator. His bloody statue at glorifying himself before he died ought to be pull down. I dont think our founding fathers will want to have a statue of themselves unless we Singaporeans agreed.

Rolling Eyes

Mid9Sun SG

Soon you can live in Thia Khiang Ave or See Tong Lane ..if you desperate u can try Soon Juan Crescent Twisted Evil

gd4u SG

Yea, tell me a place where i can really read up about them ....

autumncs SG

National Library? (In fact the the reference library is named after Lee Kong Chian...) Laughing

SBS9888Y SG

is there are road that starts wif sunflower?

stooper SG

Everywhere also got Lee Kong Chian lah... NTU got a LT named after him... Laughing

LazerLordz SG

Let's not give up our heritage to glorify some bunch of people who are overpaid.

Anyone after the Old Guard, does not deserve any recognition as far as I'm concerned.

iveco SG

NEL is violet, not pink.

Lazerlordz is right. The New Guard did nothing much as the foundations ahd already been laid for them.

Anyway, we already have housing estates and schools named after prominent people from our past. (Lim Boon Keng, Eunos Abdullah, Whampoa Hoo Ah Kay, Manasseh Meyer & the like.)

gd4u SG

Doesn't mean, that, there will be books filled with info on him, and others ...

tanjun SG

U can find the ans from Street Directory. Btw, the colour of NEL looks pink in NEL stations. Din know it is actually violet which follows SBST colour.

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