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MEDIA JAYA | 06 2020

The board was first established Get to Know Public Transportations in Singapore
1973, eight years after Singapore got
its independence. In the early phase, Mass Rapid Transit ( MRT) Light Rail Transit (LRT) Sentosa Express
the country formed a special ser- Singapore MRT covers all LRT has three routes for 28.8 Sentosa Express is a monorail
vice board for busess, namely Singa- downtown area such as tourist km long and 42 stations. train which connects Sentosa
pore Bus Services (SBS) to operate attractions, commercial areas, Island with Singapore main-
in the city while for the traffic in res- malls, government offices, edu- LRT routes connect residential land. The route is quite short
idential areas and downtown areas, cational facilities and libraries. areas with MRT access. with 4 stations only.
Singapore managed to form another Singapore MRT fares is quite Sentosa Express is often
board called Trans Island Bus Service affordable, ranging from packed with tourist as it only
(TIBS) in 1982. Later in 2001, the TIBS SGD 0.77 to 2.02 (Rp 7,000- has two small carriages.
changed its name to Singapore Mass 20,000). The ticket is in the
form of cashless card or single-
Rapid Transportation (SMRT). trip card which you can buy
After the forming of TIBS, Singa- at the ticket stalls or vending
pore built Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) machines in each stations.
which started to operate in 1987.
Since then, the transportation system
in Singapore always made improve-
ment. On top of that, in 2004 the gov-
ernment of Singapore started to intro-
duce integrated transportation system
that has successfully connected all of
the transportation modes.

Good Visions

Former Prime Minister of Singa- who lived in the area of Bukit Panjang, Sengkang 17
pore Lee Kuan Yew who led Singapore and Punggol.
in the post-independence period wor- Singapore government also maintains public
ried that Singapore would face signifi- bus services to their public. It has more than 300
cant problems in the future—what he routes and 4,000 bus units, which operates for 18
meant were problems of rapid popu- hours a day. There is also taxi services which can
lation growth and economic growth. Singapore can be be reached easily in almost all of the corner of the
If both of the problems could not be an ideal example city.
solved immediately, Singapore would for cities in All transportation services in Singapore are be-
face another troublesome issues like Indonesia which ing controlled by Land Transport Authority (LTA)
in the transportation system, which are currently which maintains the regulation for rates and bus
would affect social lives in Singapore. developing their services in Singapore. There is also a sister com-
With his visions, Singapore has transportation pany named Transit Link Pte Ltd which established
been successfully known as coun- system in 1987 under LTA management. This Transit Link
try that owns a modern and integrat- company plays a big role in transportation system
ed transportation system. Also, as the Deddy in Singapore. It has created an intermodal trans-
leading country in South East Asia for Herlambang, portation system which integrated by its payment
their public transportation. Executive mode, information platforms and physical network
Singapore currently owns three Director of without any service duplication.
transportation modes for public: rail- Indonesian To serve their people, Singapore has focused on
way-based transport system such as Transportation convinience, time efficiency and accuracy, as well
MRT and Light Rail Transit (LRT), pub- Society. as the safety. With well-planned and efficient man-
lic bus services and taxi services. De- agement, Singapore has been known not only as
spite being a railway-based trans- one of the best cities in the world for having the
portations, MRT and LRT services in best public transportation service, but also as a
Singapore are different in some ways. leading country with integrated planning in multi-
The MRT services are provided for modes transportation.
passengers throughout the city while
the LRT services only covered those sam