Why do we need A HSR ?? It doesn't benefit Singaporean at all.
Imagine the people from KL and Penang flood Singapore job market. Work 5 days and goes back to KL and Penang once a week. How would that benefit Singaporean ???
Imagine people from Johor come in and work and goes back home day in and out, what's there in for Singaporean ???
They are the ones who benefitted not us. They earn the money and invest in their own property and no one will want to rent overly expensive property in Singapore. It has a hollow out effect. What's there for Singaporean.
Singapore is a high costs nation with little or no Intellectual patent to it's name. No innovation or some high tech stuff that the World needed. We can only look foward to import more cheap labor to actually supress our already pathetic salary.
Maybe you got this thing all wrongly figured out.
HSR if built involves mostly malaysian money. Sinkie needs to dump maybe 20-30% for half a bridge, a jurong rail station and maybe 5km of rail line. But PAP gets 50% of the say.
If rail loses money, malaysia needs to cover in 70-80% for their share. Plus pay for the use of jurong rail station, the half bridge and the maybe 5km of rail line.PAP side all covered.
Most multinationals have their regional offices in sinkie. With hsr, no need KL office.
Plus tourist land in changi, and maybe use hsr to KL just look see.