East Coast Long Island (finally?)

29 November 2023

aiya, not sure why many Singaporeans are complaining about this East Coast Long Island, when it is not exactly 'news'. this reclamation proposal was first conceptualized in Concept Plan 1991, widely published on newspapers and discussed in the 90s & already announced by PM in NDR2019... [my sec2 geography teacher already mentioned about this Long Island in class back in 1999.] in fact it has been pretty much a '只闻楼梯响 不见人下来' hypothesis for 3decades & finally some 'details' of implementation now.

Long Island will just be a 'repeat' of the East Coast reclamation project in the 60s, where the waterfront/beach shifted from East Coast Road to where it is now & to the shore of Long Island in the future. from Concept Plans, it seems likely the NSL or other MRT lines will be extended to this island.

i'm actually just more annoyed by the boring name 'Long Island', which reminds me of that 'Long Island' at New York. cant it be given a better name? the same applies for many road names (eg Park Street, Commerce Street, Union Street, Utility Street) at Marina South area. in the past (i mean 60s-80s), reclaimed land seems to have better names (e.g. Marine Parade, Bayshore), but the standard of naming just dropped ard 2000s (e.g. Marina Bay, Sentosa Cove, Tuas View). i also hope the agencies stop 'murdering' local names in favour of atas-sounding English names like what LTA did for many CCL, DTL & TSL MRT stations (e.g. Mayflower instead of Kebun Baru, Marymount instead of Shunfu, Havelock instead of Bukit Ho Swee). guess Bulim is really the only exception where JTC revert 'Wenya' to its original name when developing JID.

Response to:
- "Long Island to be reclaimed off East Coast could add 800ha of land, create Singapore’s 18th reservoir" by "Straits Times" (original article at https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/long-island-to-be-reclaimed-off-east-coast-could-add-800ha-of-land-and-singapore-s-18th-reservoir);
"Reclaimed 'Long Island' will be about twice the size of Marina Bay, tripling length of existing East Coast waterfront: Desmond Lee" by "Today" (original article at https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/reclaimed-long-island-will-be-about-twice-size-marina-bay-tripling-length-existing-east-coast-waterfront-desmond-lee-2313716);
"两个滨海湾般大可防洪 东海岸外填海造“长岛”建蓄水池" by "Lianhe Zaobao" (original article at https://www.zaobao.com.sg/news/singapore/story20231128-1452967).

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