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How do Simgapore planners plan?
- Ignore housing needs until the masses KPKB and then when political power is threatened, just ramp it up by 204,416 in 5 years. What about shortage of crane operators, contractors, skilled workers, etc? Eh.. not to worry – in future we can also ramp up whatever is in serious shortage.
- Increase public transportation infrastructures as slowly as possible to reflect an unrealistic low cost for our ‘success’. Then when citizens KPKB that the number of buses had been grossly underestimated, ramp-up their numbers by 35% and also in 5 years. Where to get qualified drivers? There are millions of them from less developed countries and at a fraction of our pampered, mediocre, expensive and timid local drivers.
- Ignore our birth statistics and pretend very few babies were born so as to save on investments in childcare facilities. Commence building only when the demand exceeds supply by a huge margin so as to justify the high cost of a child’s education. Again, when people KPKB, just ramp up construction.
We are a just a little red dot, less than half the size of the state of Johor Bahru, but yet the government has perennially screwed up. What has been lacking is planning, not funding.
The above examples confirm the PAP engages in a sort of upside down planning (UDP); first it ignores the repercussions and implements policies because it knows there will be little accountability, creates a problem and then attempts to resolve them after feedback (outrage).
To put it into clearer perspective, the PAP waited http://likedatosocanmeh.wordpress.c...own-planning-and-our-overrated-civil-service/
- Ignore housing needs until the masses KPKB and then when political power is threatened, just ramp it up by 204,416 in 5 years. What about shortage of crane operators, contractors, skilled workers, etc? Eh.. not to worry – in future we can also ramp up whatever is in serious shortage.
- Increase public transportation infrastructures as slowly as possible to reflect an unrealistic low cost for our ‘success’. Then when citizens KPKB that the number of buses had been grossly underestimated, ramp-up their numbers by 35% and also in 5 years. Where to get qualified drivers? There are millions of them from less developed countries and at a fraction of our pampered, mediocre, expensive and timid local drivers.
- Ignore our birth statistics and pretend very few babies were born so as to save on investments in childcare facilities. Commence building only when the demand exceeds supply by a huge margin so as to justify the high cost of a child’s education. Again, when people KPKB, just ramp up construction.
We are a just a little red dot, less than half the size of the state of Johor Bahru, but yet the government has perennially screwed up. What has been lacking is planning, not funding.
The above examples confirm the PAP engages in a sort of upside down planning (UDP); first it ignores the repercussions and implements policies because it knows there will be little accountability, creates a problem and then attempts to resolve them after feedback (outrage).
To put it into clearer perspective, the PAP waited http://likedatosocanmeh.wordpress.c...own-planning-and-our-overrated-civil-service/
