the mrbrown show: tunnel vision
We lost a National Library, but gained a hole!
Podcast: the mrbrown show 24 Nov 2006: tunnel vision (MP3, file size: 1.5mb, Time: 00:03:08)
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November 24th, 2006 at 9:58 am
POOR NATL LIBRARY.
November 24th, 2006 at 10:29 am
you mean it’s 34 million bucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????
WTF
November 24th, 2006 at 11:00 am
For the 5 minutes pleasure of the motorists to drive from Marina to Orchard, the National Library was sacrified. The congestion of Orchard Road will get worse to justify for higher ERP charges for entering and exiting Orchard Road. It is money well spent to build the tunnel.
November 24th, 2006 at 12:02 pm
Hmm..what’s new? It doesn’t take a genius to come up with a justification for doing away with something. I hardly see any buildings or landmarks left for nostalgia. Soon, Singapore will be a city which has everything but a soul. Saddening.
November 24th, 2006 at 1:21 pm
Don’t even get me started on this…I’m disgusted beyond words. $34 million so that motorists save 4 minutes’ travelling time!!
They said the National Library was too expensive to conserve because of its leaky foundation - would it have costed $34 million to fix that?
November 24th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
$34million only mah. Peanuts. Maybe they can grow peanuts on the grass patch above.
November 24th, 2006 at 7:36 pm
they’re really idiotic to pull down the library jus for this stupid tunnel. wat a real waste of money!
November 24th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
Singapore heartware is measured in terms of peanuts and seconds don’t you know?
November 25th, 2006 at 2:45 am
Maybe it’s because of fengshui?…Singapore needs holes to boom..but 34 million for fengshui is still too much. KNn
November 25th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
i have this idea for sometime,
would like to setup an vitual altar for ‘Bai-bai’
burn incense and joss paper etc.
machaim death anniversary.
i’m very pissed off for the so-call authorities for destroying what i would call a national monument.
now all we have is a BIG- HOLE (tua-kang)
November 26th, 2006 at 3:00 am
Wah lan…. the library for tunnel??? Shit man… and S$34m???? That could be used to “help the poor” instead…. Well “They know better”, right?
November 26th, 2006 at 10:09 am
Seriously,This structure looks like tombstone.
November 26th, 2006 at 11:55 am
I wnet there on some history tour a few weeks ago, and the poor old tour guide was saying how much he missed the national library. Really, it’s a waste. Great stuff from Mark, plus the trademark protest wail from Ruby Pan in the bloopers!
November 26th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
maybe they can consider destroying the tunnel and building the national library back again, coz many ppl seems to be complaining about it
November 27th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
its all done and dusted, my dear Think.
when i first heard of the plan to tear down Nat Library, i remember them saying its prime land and there’s a lot more practical uses for the land. I didnt know it was to build a tunnel instead.
Sigh - being an SJI boy of Bras Basah Road, that area and the National Library hold so much fond memories. but hey, Singapore’s such a pragmatic country, arent we? what’s the point of fond memories when we can build a tunnel that cuts travel time?
November 27th, 2006 at 11:56 pm
From Repository of Knowledge to Black Hole
I must say I wasn’t one of those who strongly decried the demolition of the former National Library building at Stamford Road. Mostly, this was because I am young enough that Toa Payoh Library had already been built by the time I could read, so m…
November 28th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
We just have to admit that the medieval times are over, aint it? Looking at it another way: everything just seems to be living on borrowed time rather! How sad! No doubt fond memories are happy times that are valued upon; time which can be saved in the future are deemed higher in stake! Look at how often we lament on the lack of time and how we always say to others, “Give me one minute please…” … Time is so precious and there is no absolute value pegged at it. With the value of time increasingly upped thanks and no thanks to globalization, what is $34 million for buying time (OMG! Time can be bought! Aint time priceless? Aww…) as opposed to good old days??? Remember? We have to move forward! And to move forward, we have to think ahead… not think back… Think about the past? Alamak! You’ve gotta be kidding! Where got time?!!! ;)
And oh! Anyone can come up with super mega BIG plans for the site at where Esplanade is? It would be so interesting to see how a purported icon of Singapore ends in yet another “heroic” death. And mind you… it’s not as simple as relocating the merlion of Singapore river from one end to the other. We are talking about one HUGE DURIAN!
November 28th, 2006 at 11:59 pm
initially it was reported that the libary was demolishsed to make way for SMU (which i still totally don’t get, why it MUST be in already over-crowded cityhall area). so are they still building part of SMU there, or is it for future SMU expansion, or really, its just for a bloody HOLE
December 7th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
Yeah, I thot it was demolished because they intended to built SMU at that site? Knn. Cheat us once again.
December 10th, 2006 at 9:44 pm
[…] The qualifying round for the finals will be tomorrow. While I’m confident that the ACS (Independent) team will get in, I’m quite afraid about what the qualifying is going to be like. The [adjectives removed until after we win] organizers (their website is giving me tunnel vision) have either not settled the details of the intrusion and evidence we will be given tomorrow, or for no particular reason are withholding it. […]
December 12th, 2006 at 6:48 pm
Come on ppl, we must repay back our 66.6% strong mandate in anything that our government does.