how to save $1000 a year for the rest of your life in singapore and the world

NEL TO HARBOURFRONT

17 Punggol n16 Sengkang 1015 Buangkok 1614 Hougang 1613 Kovan 1712 Serangoon 1011 Woodleigh 1710 Potong pasir 179 Boon keng 188 Farrer park 177 Little India 86 Dhoby ghaut 16 85 Clarke quay 14 11w4 Chinatown 6

3 Outram park 191 Harbourfront n

Train door no. found on station name sign

How to save $1000 a year for the rest of your life?

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How to save 40 hrs of your life a year? Prevent inconsistency in train design in future stations

NEL – To Harbourfront

Train door no. (shortest route from train to escala-tor, exit or shopping mall)



Benefit To individual readers:

We all know time is money.

If you commute by train at least 18 times a week, this idea would save you 3 mins per trip leading to a time savings of 18 * 3 * 52 weeks in a year = 2808 mins or 46.8 hours per commuter.If the salary of middle management is $5000 a month( 50 working hours * 4 weeks = 200 working hours) 46.8 hours of your salary = $1,170.00Imagine how would you feel if i give you $1,170 a year for the rest of your life? Would you take it?

Even If you drive a fancy car and find no use for this idea, i am sure your children, grandchildren, friends, family, relatives, acquaintance would take train some point in their life. Would you like to give $1000 a year to each of your loved ones for the rest of their lives?

Through this idea, you would at the very least notice, which train door to board at the station near your home, in order to alight nearest to the escalator for the quickest journey to your work place.


You could take this idea and sell to soon to be built/designed/revamped train stations projects and Transport Authorities in other countries and make positive impression at the interview to secure a job, bring benefits to the communities of developing countries or simply gain satisfaction of helping another human being.

How to use these reference pictures:1. The numbers on the rightmost column indicate the train door no. that is located above the train door on the "station name sign". 2. Download the images to your phone; using android app "Photo Folder (purchased from Samsung app store)" i could create short cuts to the pictures and placed on my phone's home screen for easy accesss.


3. Refering to Northeast line pic: If you are currently at Sengkang Station (home) and need to travel to Clarke Quay station (work), open picture "To Harbourfront" (purple) and search for the row with the name "Clarke Quay". Beside the name, there are two numbers: "11" for the train door nearest to escalator to go to Central Shopping mall and "14w" indicates train door no. "14" open nearest to escalator towards the exit nearest to my workplace.


Lessons Learnt to Land Transport Authority:The picture charts indicates the lack of planning and inconsistency in the design of the station around high traffic locations, e.g. suntec city, national stadium, and shopping malls.

How many engineers, management, office staff have noted this and kept quiet? How many other did not know this?


Imagine this:The same train door no. open at the escalator nearest to the station exit towards the location of highest traffic flow for each and every station. You do not even need these reference pictures to know which train door to board.

(CEO, senior/upper management and/or important & powerful decision makers of Big corporations drive big fancy car: success of this idea is low as they probably would not care. Further action may lead to opening a can of worms which may

lead to reduction in their job security and BONUSES?)


If the rich and powerful, ignore this idea, this shows what their true core value as a person are, even though their company vision says otherwise.

Would Media spread/publish this idea? If they are afraid of offending the powerful, are they really true to their spirit of journalism and freedom of speech?


Action to take now: 1. The pictures are a workaround to current station design. Build a mini sign of the train door layout to face incoming passenger after they enter the station gates (tap card) to know which direction to move towards the train door for the next station.

2. Have the train door no. to face the same direction for both train direction. What is the reason for changing the train door no. if the train moves the opposite direction? In a medical emergency, the train door no. irregardless of the train direction would only serve as a reference indicator. Thus for simplicity sake, have the train door no. on opposite train directions be the same no.


3. Noted for some station, the escalator coming down from the platform to the passenger service is further away than the stairs coming down from the same platform. Why is that so? Why not have two escalators coming down from the platform as per other station design?

4. Incorporate this insight into future/upcoming train station designs.

5. Share this insight with transport authorities of other countries.


I dedicate this idea FREE (though I accept donations) to the billions of train commuters and the many more unborn commuters of the world.

You can download all the data, excel sheet, and powerpoint from here: https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B6w9JX6nhYAQdU1QNVpHamplWUE/edit

Happy commuting.


https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B6w9JX6nhYAQdU1QNVpHamplWUE/edit

https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B6w9JX6nhYAQdU1QNVpHamplWUE/edit

NEL TO PUNGGOL

1 Harbourfront n3 Outram park 64 Chinatown 205 Clarke quay 11 14w6 Dhoby ghaut 17 97 Little India 16

8 Farrer park 89 Boon keng 8

10 Potong pasir 811 Woodleigh 812 Serangoon 1513 Kovan 814 Hougang 815 Buangkok 916 Sengkang 1817 Punggol n

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NEL – To Punggol

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EWL TO JOO KOON

1 Pasir ris n2 Tampines 183 Simei 74 Tanah merah 75 Bedok 76 Kembangan 227 Eunos 178 Paya lebar 19 Aljunied 7

10 Kallang 711 Lavender 812 Bugis 1613 City hall 9 12 6pr 16pr14 Raffles place 11 14 5pr 20pr15 Tanjong pagar 22

16 Outram park 1817 Tiong bahru 1518 Redhill 1119 Queenstown 1120 Commonwealth 1421 Buona vista 11 20cl 22 Dover 19

23 Clementi 1424 Jurong east 1725 Chinese garden 626 Lakeside 627 Boon Lay 528 Pioneer 929 Joo koon n

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EWL TO PASIR RIS

29 Joo koon n28 Pioneer 1727 Boon Lay 20 8 26 Lakeside 19

25 Chinese garden 1924 Jurong east 823 Clementi 1122 Dover 621 Buona vista 14 5cl 20 Commonwealth 11

19 Queenstown 1418 Redhill 1417 Tiong bahru 1016 Outram park 1815 Tanjong pagar 20 3 14 Raffles place 20 5 16jk 9jk13 City hall 21 8 16jk 13jk12 Bugis 9

11 Lavender 1710 Kallang 189 Aljunied 188 Paya lebar 247 Eunos 76 Kembangan 35 Bedok 184 Tanah merah 73 Simei 182 Tampines 71 Pasir ris n

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CGLTO CHANGI <- TANAH MERAH (PR)

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CGLTO CHANGI <- TANAH MERAH (JK)

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CGLTO TANAH MERAH <- CHANGI

CG2 Changi nCG1 Expo 20EW4 Tanah merah n

NSL TO JURONG EAST 27 Marina bay na n

26 Raffles place 6 19 9jk 16jk25 City hall 13 16 9pr 19pr24 Dhoby ghaut 18 7nel 23 Somerset 8 22 Orchard 5 18 21 Newton 17

20 Novena 1119 Toa payoh 19 5 18 Braddell 17 17 Bishan 16 17cl 16 Ang mo kio 8

15 Yio chu kang 714 Khatib 1913 Yishun 811 Sembawang 1810 Admiralty 189 Woodlands 188 Marsiling 77 Kranji 185 Yew tee 184 Choa chu kang 7 5lrt3 Bukit gombak 19

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NSL – To Jurong East

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NSL TO MARINA BAY 1 Jurong east na n2 Bukit batok 173 Bukit gombak 64 Choa chu kang 18 20lrt5 Yew tee 77 Kranji 188 Marsiling 189 Woodlands 7

10 Admiralty 711 Sembawang 713 Yishun 614 Khatib 615 Yio chu kang 1816 Ang mo kio 1717 Bishan 16 22cl18 Braddell 819 Toa payoh 5 2020 Novena 1421 Newton 822 Orchard 723 Somerset 1724 Dhoby ghaut 8 18nel25 City hall 5 16 9jk 12jk26 Raffles place 10 15 5pr 20pr27 Marina bay na n

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NSL – To Marina Bay


CCL TO HARBOURFRONT

1 Dhoby ghaut n2 Bras basah 93 Esplanade 24 Promenade 2stc 11mw5 Nicoll highway 7

6 Stadium 117 Mountbatten 88 Dakota 7 59 Paya lebar 3ew 10

10 Macpherson 7 6

11 Tai seng 7

12 Bartley 613 Serangoon 1214 Lorong chuan 615 Bishan 116 Marymount 717 Caldecott 719 Botanic gardens 520 Farrer road 921 Holland village 822 Buona vista 8 523 One-north 5

24 Kent ridge 525 Haw par villa 526 Pasir panjang 727 Labrador park 528 Telok blangah 629 Harbourfront n

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CCL TO DHOBY GHAUT

29 Harbourfront n28 Telok blangah 727 Labrador park 826 Pasir panjang 625 Haw par villa 824 Kent ridge 823 One-north 822 Buona vista 8 521 Holland village 5

20 Farrer road 419 Botanic gardens 817 Caldecott 616 Marymount 615 Bishan 1214 Lorong chuan 713 Serangoon 112 Bartley 711 Tai seng 710 Macpherson 5 79 Paya lebar 3 10ew8 Dakota 7

7 Mountbatten 56 Stadium 25 Nicoll highway 64 Promenade 3mw 10stc3 Esplanade 11

2 Bras basah 31 Dhoby ghaut n

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CCL – To Dhoby Ghaut


CCLMARINA BAY <- PROMENADE

4 Promenade n1 Bayfront 3 122 Marina bay n

CCLPROMENADE <- MARINA BAY

2 Marina bay n1 Bayfront 1 74 Promenade n

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