i am confused,
one mile,two mile,three mile,4 mile,5 mile,6
mile.......10,000,000 mile,how many "mile exactly.
you see, Bukit Timah Road is an extremely historic route in
Singapore as it has been around since 1845. Back
then, Singapore consisted mainly of the city, a trunk road running
east to west and this trunk road bringing us up to Woodlands
Causeway and the city centre.
Before we had new towns that divided this long road into the
present day form consisting of Woodlands Road, Bt Timah Rd, Dunearn
Rd so on and so forth, the whole long stretch was basically known
as Bt Timah Rd. Now, to tell travellers on the road where they
were, there were markers, stone markers with numbers like the ones
we see in Malaysian Federal Roads. These markers marked every mile
from the beginning of the road in the city, up to Woodlands. Thus,
where Bt Panjang Road intersects, there used to be a big roundabout
there which is also "Mile no. 10". The Malay residents there used
to call it (Batu 10), and if we go down to beauty world, it'd be
(Batu 7 -Seventh Mile). Thus, the name Ten Mile Junction was
derived out of the historic reference to the place, which marked
the 10th mile of Bukit Timah road.