Malboro Tan must answer, why citizens die from his falling trees and lamppost?

In between 2001 to 2006 Malboro Tan's Tampines GCR had many fallen lamppost which killed and injured citizens, it was a teenage boy who died at basketball court there.

Now it is N-park's trees, whacking our cars. Still under Malboro Tan.


So they blame rain for floods (always 100mm rainfall?) Blame wind for tree falling.

Then they draw million dollars of salaries for fuck?



http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100721-0000083/Motorist,-32,-killed-as-tree-falls-on-car


Motorist, 32, killed as tree falls on car
by Esther Ng and Leong Wee Keat
05:55 AM Jul 21, 2010
SINGAPORE - A baby seat, a baby stroller. A brown soft toy, a black Harrods shopping bag. One by one, they were removed from a mangled metal wreck along Yio Chu Kang Road yesterday.

"Severe weather conditions" were blamed after a mature rain tree - said to be 35 to 40 years old - was uprooted and fell on a car, crushing its roof and killing the driver, Chua Loong Wai, 32. He was driving towards Upper Thomson Road and had just passed the Thomson Hills Drive junction when the tree landed on his car at about 2pm.

The wind speed then was reported to be as high as 65 kmh, accompanied by heavy rain.

NParks chief executive Ng Lang said an intense microburst - a powerful descending column of air which produces damaging winds at high speed - had occurred in the area around that time.

Mr Ng added: "Microbursts may last for only a few seconds, but are known to knock down fully grown trees."

While they had seen branches falling, residents at nearby Teachers' Estate said this was the first time in 15 years they had seen a tree being uprooted.

Singapore Civil Defence Force officers took 20 minutes to extricate Mr Chua from the crumpled vehicle. No other passengers were in the black Honda Freed.

"NParks is deeply saddened by this unfortunate incident," said Mr Ng, and its priority is to extend assistance to the family.

At Monday's Parliament sitting, Member of Parliament Baey Yam Keng (Tanjong Pagar GRC) had asked: How safe are roads from falling trees?

In a written answer, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said 240 "tree failures" were reported last month, 170 per cent more than in June last year.

Mr Mah had added: "Wind forces and sodden soil due to heavy rain ... can weaken the stability of all trees, even the healthy trees, and cause them to be uprooted. Such forces of nature are beyond NParks' control.

"NParks monitors the condition of each tree over time and takes preventive action where necessary to minimise risks of tree failure."

These include replacing roadside trees with hardy species and regular pruning to remove weak or overgrown branches. This has cut "tree failures" by nearly 70 per cent, from about 3,100 cases in 2000 to about 1,000 last year. The uprooted tree on Yio Chu Kang road was last pruned in January.

Mr S L Chua, 55, a resident at nearby Casuarina Walk, "was very concerned" about the big trees "slanting to one side toward the road" in the estate. NParks said it will be inspecting the trees.

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 4:51pm
Straits Times
Jun 11, 2010

Rotten root caused topple

Root was underground and went undetected during checks, says NParks



A ROTTEN root and a tree crown that had grown unevenly caused a 30-year-old raintree to topple in front of the Istana at around 4pm on Wednesday, bringing a traffic light down with it.

The National Parks Board (NParks), which looks after trees along most roads and in parks and nature reserves, told The Straits Times that as the rotten root, one of three that anchor the tree, was underground, it went undetected by its officers who conduct regular checks on the health of trees in Singapore.

The fallen tree, which was 18m tall and had a girth of 2.5m, was also competing for sunlight with a larger tree right next to it, which meant its crown could not develop evenly and into its usual round shape. As a result, its weight was not evenly distributed, NParks explained.

A combination of these factors, as well as the heavy rain which loosened the soil on Wednesday afternoon, triggered the fall of the tree, said Mr Simon Longman, director of streetscape at NParks.

NParks has deployed officers to conduct checks on other trees in the vicinity, he added, although he could not say when the tree was last checked.

NParks inspects every tree under its charge at least once every three years.

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ST Forum Page letter by Dennis Distant.

Jun 14, 2010

Puzzled by rotten-root remark

I AM puzzled by the National Parks Board's remark that the rotten root of a tree outside the Istana went undetected because it was underground ("Rotten root caused tree to topple at Istana", last Friday).

Surely, most roots are located underground.

It is very fortunate that only one person was injured as that area is usually crowded with pedestrians.

Denis Distant

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MBT: Not my fault la. Do you know how hard I tried to increase your nett worth?

MBT : BLAME ON GAIA ... :oIo:

PM : You can't expect nobody dies from fallen trees, and you can't expect no tree to fall in a thunderstorm.

MM : No amount of engineering can prevent that. You have to be prepared.

Trees under NParks leh...

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Trees under NParks leh...

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http://app.sgdi.gov.sg/listing.asp?agency_subtype=dept&agency_id=0000000125

This is under Min National Devp under Malboro Tan, this is not Yaacob's baby.

Isn't this another OMEN the rotten PAP Govt?

Why so many rotten trees and fallen trees these day? This is the ending of PAP's rotten dead woods mah!

WAF 1 more time !?


http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_556506.html


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Jul 22, 2010
Tree falls on car, 3 unhurt
Passengers in car escaped unscathed
By Carolyn Quek
Three passengers made a lucky escape after a tree fell on their car in Ang Mo Kio on Thursday during another heavy downpour. --PHOTO: SHINMIN

IN an accident eerily similar to Tuesday's fallen tree tragedy, three passengers made a lucky escape after a tree fell on their car in Ang Mo Kio on Thursday during another heavy downpour.

The incident happened at about 7.45am at a road junction near Block 226, Ang Mo Kio Street 22.

The passengers managed to get away with some scratches but their car - a Blue Chevrolet - was badly damaged with its back windscreen completely shattered.

The passengers remained in their car until the Singapore Civil Defence Force came to their aid.


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Lame Ass Malboro Tan came up with same excuse as LKY the old fart.

Remember that Turban Photo of LKY & his recent comment on floods? LKY said Act Of God (he finally realized that he isn't god:oIo Malboro Tan's answer : it is due to weather.

To the 2 million dollar ministers point their fingers up towards the sky, and blame there when shit hit ceiling fan.

What is this then? Kek-Leng-Kia Kee Tee (Indian Man Pointing The Sky)

That is the Hokkien Idiom to describe audacious and shameless denial attitude.

Shifting blame towards the heaven.

Bastards!


http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_556710.html


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Jul 22, 2010
Falling trees due to weather
By Hoe Pei Shan
The National Parks Board said it had in fact stepped up its 15,000-tree a month inspection to include an additional 2,000 large, mature trees in the past two months, when unstable weather first hit Singapore.

THE recent spate of falling trees are the result of severe weather conditions - not because the trees had been poorly maintained.

The National Parks Board said it had in fact stepped up its 15,000-tree a month inspection to include an additional 2,000 large, mature trees in the past two months, when unstable weather first hit Singapore.

Meeting the media on Thursday, NParks' director of streetscapes Simon Longman said that there was no emerging pattern as to what sort of trees or areas were more prone to such accidents.

'There was no trend in the species, the size, nor the location of these recent cases, and it really boils down to the individual circumstances like wind and rain,' said Mr Longman, who added that the recent severe weather conditions have made NParks' work particularly challenging.

'For the tree that fell in Yio Chu Kang, it had a well-formed root system and yet was completely uprooted by the microburst.' Thunderstorms and microbursts, which are powerful gusts of air, contributed to 240 incidents of fallen trees or branches in June alone.

In light of more severe weather expected this weekend, the intensified maintenance regime - which targets trees along roads with high vehicular traffic - will continue. Mr Longman also assured that NParks has been carrying out a 'very rigorous and systematic' tree care programme, with regular tree safety inspections for signs of poor health, disease, pests or strcutural defects performed since the 1980s.

MBT: Ahhh... It could have been worse, sinkies... I have done a good job and saved many lives...

Yakult: Ha Nor!

As long don't die from falling HDB flats, that is ok lah.

Teo Kok Eng said:

As long don't die from falling HDB flats, that is ok lah.

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I won't write that off so fast. What with the 'microburst' thingy and the strong winds from typhoons in China/Philippines hitting our 40 or 50 stories pigeonholes like Pinnacle?

My, better to keep looking skywards in case of falling trees.....and possibly HDB buildings !

Falling trees due to weather

=> Only? The FAPee lazy civil serpents' have got nothing to do with it despite being the best paid in the world?

TREE DISASTERS DAILY NON-STOP!

MALBORO TAN RESIGN!

:oIo::oIo:




Extraordinary RAIN? My ass!

No Amount Of Stupidity Can Prevent Us from DISBELIEVING!

CCB PAP! :oIo::oIo:

http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100723-0000120/A-narrow-escape-after-tree-crushes-car


A narrow escape after tree crushes car
by Leong Wee Keat and Esther Ng [email protected]
05:55 AM Jul 23, 2010
SINGAPORE - Seconds after a 15-metre tall tree crashed onto his blue Chevrolet yesterday morning, all training manager Steven Lee, 48, could do was utter a silent prayer of thanks.

The impact smashed the front and back windscreens and left the driver shell-shocked, but he and his two passengers - elder brother Edward, 52, and niece Rebecca, 20 - were safe, barring some scratches.

Mr Lee had seen the tree coming down at around 7.45am, but said there was no way he could have avoided it even though he had jammed on the brakes. "It came down within a second," he said of the incident at Ang Mo Kio Street 22.

The father of three children aged nine, 12 and 17 instinctively thought of the tree which fell just two days earlier along Yio Chu Kang road, which killed projects manager Chua Loong Wai, 32.

The image of that mangled metal wreck also flashed across the minds of his passengers.

"I mean, that just happened a few days ago, right. What were the possibilities of a car being hit by a tree again?" Rebecca, a Ngee Ann Polytechnic student, said in disbelief.

Edward summed up the trio's feelings: "I feel fortunate to be alive."

Singapore Civil Defence Force personnel rushed one fire engine, one red rhino, two motorbikes and two support vehicles to the scene

Even before the SCDF arrived, residents went forward to help free the passengers, with Tuesday's incident fresh in their minds. After all, Mr Chua was killed just 1.6km away.

While the Chevrolet's front doors were jammed shut, the three passengers found a way out through the left rear door after around 15 minutes.

According to National Parks Board streetscape director Simon Longman, there was heavy rain and wind at the time.

The sea apple tree, which Mr Lee said has been in the estate since he moved there 30 years ago was last pruned in November.

While the uprooted tree was under NParks' care, Ang Mo Kio-Yio Chu Kang Town Council, which manages some 36,000 trees under a scheduled maintenance of once every six months, is not taking any chances.

"In view of the recent weather, we have intensified our inspection and maintenance of matured trees," a spokesperson told MediaCorp.

Maintenance aside, the two incidents in less than a week have sparked questions about trees planted along roadsides here.

Mr Longman disagrees with the notion, though, that too many trees had been planted in Singapore's early days.

"It's very purposeful to plant trees along the roads, and we've been doing that since the early '70s; it's part of the city in the garden vision," he said.

On major roads, a width of two metres is set aside on the verges as tree space. "The tree will maximise available space below the ground," stressed Mr Longman.

In the case of the "unfortunate accident" which killed Mr Chua, there was a tree space of 3.5m. The tree's roots had not only used the space up to the roadside drain but also underneath it, into vacant space, he said.

Arborists whom MediaCorp spoke to said NParks has been doing a "good job" in its tree inspections; tree failure, they said, occur for a number of reasons such as long periods of heavy rain, which causes the soil to soften.

However, urbanisation imposes a toll on trees. "A new building changes the wind direction or a tree could compete for space with a new road, restricting its growth," said Mr Veera Sekaran, managing director of arborist consultancy Greenology.

"No one really knows what's the life span of these urban trees, so we need a better study. The authorities should listen to local consultants than overseas consultants, as we're more familiar with the matter," he added.

When contacted, Mr Longman said the Board's 120 arborists were mainly Singaporean and trained by the Centre for Urban Greenery and Ecology, a joint venture between NParks and the Workforce Development Agency.

In the past two months, NParks has stepped up its inspection and pruning of trees, focusing on mature trees and where vehicular traffic is high.

In addition to routine maintenance operations, NParks inspected an additional 2,000 large mature trees and did crown reduction. "This intensified maintenance regime will continue," said Mr Longman.

In selecting which trees to plant, NParks chooses hardy species such as angsana, broad-leaf mahogany and yellow flame. It also plants rain trees - the same species as the tree that killed Mr Chua.

In the past three years, NParks has also removed storm-vulnerable species: 650 Albizia falcatarias.