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  Today Online 15 Jun 06
A linkway country covered all the way
 Letter from Lim Poh Seng

We have the Blue Plan to link all our waterways and we have the Green Plan to link our parks. I would like to propose a Covered Plan for Singapore to link buildings to each other, to bus stops and to public places.

This is appropriate because of our hot climate that is subject to sudden heavy downpours.

An extensive network of covered shelters will help minimise disruption to our daily activities, and ensure that vehicles can pick or drop their passengers without them getting wet in the rain.

Currently, covered shelters are coming up in an uncoordinated manner. Sometimes, they look unattractive.

Let us have a coordinated plan for sheltered overhead bridges that connect to bus stops across the road; shelters linking bus stops to the nearest apartment or public building; and between buildings.

Part of the cost of the Covered Plan can be funded by public transport companies and motorists.

When the day comes that most of Singapore is linked extensively by covered shelters, it will make us a truly unique First World country.

More radically, how about the idea of vertical living? That is, one can eat, work, play and reside in the same building: The first storey is for eating places, the next four storeys for offices, the top two storeys for a garden, gym, child-care centre, and the in-between floors for residences.
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