More than 500 families to make way for new highway

• fibytprsu

  16 Nov 11, 19:08

  
  

  SINGAPORE - Rochor Centre will soon be demolished, to make way for the new North-South Expressway (NSE) in the southern segment of the project.

  It is among more than 20 private properties which will have part of their plots acquired for the highway and several slip roads and ramps leading to and from the highway, reported the Straits Times.

  Earlier this year, the government gave the green light for the 15.9 km North-South Expressway (NSE)between Admiralty Road West and Toa Payoh Rise, and announced properties in the northern segment which will be affected by the construction.

  These include parts of Marymount, Sembawang and Yio Chu Kang.

  Other acquisitions for the southern segment include the Lee Ah Mooi Nursing Home in Thomson, Nanyang Pho Leng Building near Kampong Java, and the Victoria Wholesale Centre.

  Rochor Centre is the biggest land acquisition to date, with 567 HDB flats, 187 shops, eating houses and three communal facilities.

  Residents there will be compensated and have the option to move to new flats by the Kallang River, near the Kallang MRT station. These will be ready in mid-2016.

  Prices of the flats will be frozen at today's rates, with an additional 20 per cent discount.

  Tenants who relocate will also receive a 10 per cent discount on a successful bid for other HDB rental shops, among other relocation benefits.

  Those who took over the premises before 1999 will receive payouts of S$60,000 each. 
  
  An additional S$30,000 will be given to those who choose to continue business at an alternative premise.

• troublemaker2005

  17 Nov 11, 21:36

  do we really need this highway? the root cause is we keep letting in cheap labors and substandard false singaporeans. and add our population to 5 mil now. so we need to open for roads for these people who like to walk and take the whole road.

   

  if we cut down our population, we won;t need all these fancy demolishing and building, and we can concentrate down to the root level how to sttrengthen our small island, balncing and replendishing our shortfalls instead of relying over much on foriegn stuff

• Merczrox

  17 Nov 11, 21:40

  Originally posted by troublemaker2005:

  do we really need this highway? the root cause is we keep letting in cheap labors and substandard false singaporeans. and add our population to 5 mil now. so we need to open for roads for these people who like to walk and take the whole road.

   

  if we cut down our population, we won;t need all these fancy demolishing and building, and we can concentrate down to the root level how to sttrengthen our small island, balncing and replendishing our shortfalls instead of relying over much on foriegn stuff

  
  Thats y.I dont see any damn bloody need at all for this.

• Wandan

  19 Nov 11, 11:27

  i think the title will be 

  More than 500 families to make way for government!

• mancha

  19 Nov 11, 11:32

  The dead and the living also not spared.

• likeyou

  19 Nov 11, 11:43

  No matter how many highway spore built, it will be the same, conjested.

  But then they gonna move to kallang. Is it a good choice?

• charlize

  19 Nov 11, 12:42

  Originally posted by mancha:

  The dead and the living also not spared.

  This must be the best line in this thread.

• winsomeea

  19 Nov 11, 12:50

  Existing Rochor flats are limiting their revenue.     Expressway is a sure stable revenue to tap from.      Money over happines of residents.     Do we see they are putting Singaporeans first as stated by LEE HSIEN LOONG AND LIM SWEE SAY?

• winsomeea

  19 Nov 11, 12:52

  Originally posted by likeyou:

  No matter how many highway spore built, it will be the same, conjested.

  But then they gonna move to kallang. Is it a good choice?

  Conjestion jam is not an issue, revenue is.     Expressway ERP is a stable revenue for them.      Everything boils down to dollars and cents.

  Still cannot get over why those 60% gave them the mandate.    

• mancha

  19 Nov 11, 12:57

  Car owners?

• Dalforce 25

  19 Nov 11, 12:59

  Originally posted by winsomeea:

  Still cannot get over why those 60% gave them the mandate.    

  Digital divide. 2016 PAP votes will drop to 54% and below.

  PAP votes will not increase but will decrease. This trend cannot be reversed but will continue. Import alien votes also will not help.

• charlize

  19 Nov 11, 13:06

  Originally posted by Dalforce 25:

  Digital divide. 2016 PAP votes will drop to 54% and below.

  PAP votes will not increase but will decrease. This trend cannot be reversed but will continue. Import alien votes also will not help.

  Sure or not?

• winsomeea

  19 Nov 11, 13:09

  Originally posted by Dalforce 25:

  Digital divide. 2016 PAP votes will drop to 54% and below.

  PAP votes will not increase but will decrease. This trend cannot be reversed but will continue. Import alien votes also will not help.

  
  Yes, in your dream.  Dream on !  

• Dalforce 25

  19 Nov 11, 13:11

  Originally posted by winsomeea:

  
  Yes, in your dream.  Dream on !  

  I don't see why not.

• Rooney_07

  19 Nov 11, 13:12

  did their MP even consulted them?

  eh next GE, dun vote for them cos they didnt.

• winsomeea

  19 Nov 11, 13:18

  Originally posted by Rooney_07:

  did their MP even consulted them?

  eh next GE, dun vote for them cos they didnt.

  
  No.    Not  a democratic country.    

• Dalforce 25

  19 Nov 11, 13:20

   

  Bolivian president Evo Morales scraps plans for Amazon highway

   

  Morales bows to protesters who campaigned against construction of 185-mile road through indigenous park land

   

  

  Evo Morales, second from left, has lunch on Friday with leaders of the ethnic group that campaigned against the Amazon highway. Photograph: Jose Luis Quintana/Getty

  Bolivia's under-fire president, Evo Morales, has announced he will scrap plans to plough a controversial highway through an indigenous and ecological reserve in the Amazon.

  Two days after several thousand protestors converged on La Paz, to oppose the construction of a 185-mile road through the Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory (Tipnis), Morales met with indigenous campaigners who had been marching on Bolivia's main city since August...

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/21/evo-morales-scraps-amazon-highway

   

  Residents Block Taiwan's First Casino

  TAIPEI -- Residents of Penghu County, a group of islands off southwestern Taiwan, rejected a government proposal to build a casino resort in a referendum Saturday, according to Taiwan's Central Election Commission.

  In the referendum, only 13,397 of the islands' 73,651 eligible voters, or 43.6%, supported the government's plan, which is aimed at boosting tourism, the commission said.

  The result of the referendum means the Taiwanese government will have to wait for three years to conduct another referendum on the same topic, Chang Jui-Tung, director-general of the Penghu County government's Civil Affairs Bureau said.

  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125396065739043551.html

   

   

  Did the PAP consult the residents before planning the highway?

  They got consult or did not consult?

• winsomeea

  19 Nov 11, 13:35

  Originally posted by Dalforce 25:

   

  Bolivian president Evo Morales scraps plans for Amazon highway

   

  Morales bows to protesters who campaigned against construction of 185-mile road through indigenous park land

   

  

  Evo Morales, second from left, has lunch on Friday with leaders of the ethnic group that campaigned against the Amazon highway. Photograph: Jose Luis Quintana/Getty

  Bolivia's under-fire president, Evo Morales, has announced he will scrap plans to plough a controversial highway through an indigenous and ecological reserve in the Amazon.

  Two days after several thousand protestors converged on La Paz, to oppose the construction of a 185-mile road through the Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory (Tipnis), Morales met with indigenous campaigners who had been marching on Bolivia's main city since August...

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/21/evo-morales-scraps-amazon-highway

   

   

  Residents Block Taiwan's First Casino

   

  TAIPEI -- Residents of Penghu County, a group of islands off southwestern Taiwan, rejected a government proposal to build a casino resort in a referendum Saturday, according to Taiwan's Central Election Commission.

  In the referendum, only 13,397 of the islands' 73,651 eligible voters, or 43.6%, supported the government's plan, which is aimed at boosting tourism, the commission said.

  The result of the referendum means the Taiwanese government will have to wait for three years to conduct another referendum on the same topic, Chang Jui-Tung, director-general of the Penghu County government's Civil Affairs Bureau said.

  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125396065739043551.html

   

   

  Did the PAP consult the residents before planning the highway?

  They got consult or did not consult?

  Consult ge pi, they happy can liao, you all die your business.  Money money full full in their pockets!     

• charlize

  19 Nov 11, 13:53

  Originally posted by Dalforce 25:

   

  Bolivian president Evo Morales scraps plans for Amazon highway

   

  Morales bows to protesters who campaigned against construction of 185-mile road through indigenous park land

   

  

  Evo Morales, second from left, has lunch on Friday with leaders of the ethnic group that campaigned against the Amazon highway. Photograph: Jose Luis Quintana/Getty

  Bolivia's under-fire president, Evo Morales, has announced he will scrap plans to plough a controversial highway through an indigenous and ecological reserve in the Amazon.

  Two days after several thousand protestors converged on La Paz, to oppose the construction of a 185-mile road through the Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory (Tipnis), Morales met with indigenous campaigners who had been marching on Bolivia's main city since August...

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/21/evo-morales-scraps-amazon-highway

   

   

  Residents Block Taiwan's First Casino

   

  TAIPEI -- Residents of Penghu County, a group of islands off southwestern Taiwan, rejected a government proposal to build a casino resort in a referendum Saturday, according to Taiwan's Central Election Commission.

  In the referendum, only 13,397 of the islands' 73,651 eligible voters, or 43.6%, supported the government's plan, which is aimed at boosting tourism, the commission said.

  The result of the referendum means the Taiwanese government will have to wait for three years to conduct another referendum on the same topic, Chang Jui-Tung, director-general of the Penghu County government's Civil Affairs Bureau said.

  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125396065739043551.html

   

   

  Did the PAP consult the residents before planning the highway?

  They got consult or did not consult?

  Singapore is different from Bolivia lah.

• Medicated Oil

  19 Nov 11, 19:36

  I was shocked to see in asiaone report that the 500 residents were not even consulted prior to the decision of building the highway.

  What the hell is the MP doing all the while ?

  Occupy Rochor Center ?

  Build a highway to save 5 mins and drive 500 people away ?

• Rooney_07

  19 Nov 11, 19:41

  who is the minister in charge? vivian balakrishnan? they should all go down to see the minister in his office and demand an explanation on this. consultation? what consultation? crap

• winsomeea

  19 Nov 11, 20:40

  Who are in charge, which MPs?    Kallang Moulemein GRC Denise Phua - on the banner during National Day .

  Kallang Moulemein GRC?    Yaccob and Lui Tuck Yew in it.

   Is Lui Tuck Yew in charge of LTA?   If he is it is easy job to get rid of the residents to go ahead constructing the expressway.    LUI TUCK YEW MP of Kallang Moulmein GRC.    LUI :  Money    Tuck :   Stuff   Yew:  You.        

• winsomeea

  19 Nov 11, 20:42

  All bo law yong MPs.

• Rooney_07

  19 Nov 11, 23:55

  Lui Tuck Yew, the former rear admiral in Navy?

  they should go pay a visit to his office and demand answers from him. ah, he is acting minister right, not yet a full minister? if he muck this up, expect him to be minister of state of minister with no portfolio in future

• Clivebenss

  20 Nov 11, 00:01

  Originally posted by Rooney_07:

  Lui Tuck Yew, the former rear admiral in Navy?

  they should go pay a visit to his office and demand answers from him. ah, he is acting minister right, not yet a full minister? if he muck this up, expect him to be minister of state of minister with no portfolio in future

  He may join Raymond Lim soon.