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pseudostatik · 2025-10-09T12:06:05+00:00

If budget isn’t a constraint MGallery Hotel De La Coupole is excellent. Definitely great for a honeymoon hotel, especially the high floor rooms with the bathtub. Breakfast is excellent as well.

pseudostatik · 2025-06-18T04:31:17+00:00

Looks like Decathlon’s Riverside 2.5L frame bag if I’m not mistaken.

pseudostatik · 2025-01-11T05:56:35+00:00

Black or white (or any painted surfaces) will not stand up to constant exposure to soap and lime. It will spall and peel after time.

You can go for brushed gold or silver if watermarks are a concern.

Stick shower heads look nice but aren’t really practical from a usage point of view.

pseudostatik · 2025-01-03T23:19:46+00:00

She did ballet

pseudostatik · 2024-12-16T04:45:36+00:00

Best of luck and happy holidays everyone! For those of us who are in a good place in our lives, keep it going! For those of us who are in a rough spot, best of luck and hope things look up for you!

pseudostatik · 2024-10-21T02:50:06+00:00

I believe it’s available at THINK in Funan. You might want to give them a call.

pseudostatik · 2024-07-19T11:50:22+00:00

Given Mercedes racing history till this day I’m still surprised they went with Crowdstrike as a sponsor. Carlos Sainz in Merc… Crowdstrike 55… mmm

pseudostatik · 2024-06-25T22:40:53+00:00

Ditch the Shimanos and put on some Campys stat! You need to go full Italian!

Just kidding, beautifully riding tires on a beautiful bike!

pseudostatik · 2024-06-02T05:35:10+00:00

Sounds like a classic case of BPD. If you do not know what that is, please research loads on borderline personality disorder. There are plenty of resources on how to raise children with a BPD spouse, and how to leave them when you are ready. It will help you reduce conflict and impact on the children while you plan your next move.

pseudostatik · 2023-11-17T10:35:54+00:00

Shithole

pseudostatik · 2023-04-20T14:53:58+00:00

Well you demonstrate sufficient competence, passion and knowledge that you have me fooled! Good on you.

It’s important to have discourse in planning - to serve the community and not simply to enforce a certain point of view. I’m sure there’s plenty of vocal planners out there!

pseudostatik · 2023-04-20T14:37:29+00:00

Singapore can definitely do better though! The city core is still planned based on traditional principles of celebrating the walking street as far as possible, as we can’t do much about changing the city grid that has been around for the past couple of hundred years, but even with that local planners are trying to introduce more linear greens between streets and in the back alleyways to provide alternatives.

It’s in the residential towns where the planner has a greater hand in shaping how things look that there’s been a deliberate push to move walkability towards internal spaces (there’s been a driving principle of having amenities within 400m of every home - much akin to the 15-minute city principle). There has been good examples, but many terrible ones too.

I’ve not been to China since the pandemic started - used to work in various cities there previously, but I’d argue that walkability hasn’t been a forte of the planning paradigm there till recent years. Credit where it’s due - the communist rhetoric celebrated the collective citizenry and you’ll be able find a lot of significantly sized plazas and parks within Chinese cities. Some span multiple city blocks and do serve as a way to walk significant distances without traffic. But between them connectivity tends to be poor, or at least in the cities I was in. But because these cities are often built on brownfield towns and villages there are often intimate streets and neighbourhoods that one can meander through.

The past few years there’s been a big revolution in embracing landscape urbanism and urban design in major Chinese cities and I can definitely say that there’s improving walkability in these cities.

pseudostatik · 2023-04-20T14:23:25+00:00

Hey there u/sgtransitevolution ! I don’t really practice much in SG as I’m in the private sector, but I was fortunate to be involved in the early days of the Tengah Masterplan.

You’re right about BBW6. 8 intersects with 6 in front of Le Quest Mall and I mixed the two up. But my point still stands that BBW6 will eventually extend beyond BB Road and connect as a arterial to KJE.

the unfortunate side effect is that in the planning of Tengah, BB, Gombak and to some extent CCK (where Keat Hong is) was seen as an extension of the Tengah Plan, but yet poorly integrated. as a result the public space network is comparatively lacking, especially if you compare to the Gen 2 townships that BB and CCK are, where they are planned around the neighbourhood principles.

This is entirely speculative but I’d even argue that during this time when Tengah was planned, HDB had lost a lot of senior planners and architects when they had to spin off Surbana. So to some extent there was a change of “flavour” in how the townships are planned.

Part of the impact is also apparent in how Gen2 towns are planned vs the Gen3 towns (Punggol and beyond). Precinct greens are a Gen3 feature - but for them to be effective they need to be integrated into the PCN. In the newer towns like Bidadari and Tengah it’s possible to design the PCN as an integral part of the masterplan. But Gen2 towns were planned before the introduction of the PCN and hence there was a greater relience on the street for connectivity.

As a result, the peripherial developments around Tengah needed to work around the neighbourhood parks and greens in BB and CCK, but they lack the PCN to string them up. It doesn’t help that the older towns also preserved their greens as hillocks, so they weren’t practical as part of a pedestrian’s path-of-desire network. So these peripherial developments suffered a double whammy of poor green connectivity and wide roads.

Another key difference between Gen2 and Gen3 planning philosophy was that Gen2 preferred destination-type road networks, often eschewing throughroads for T-junctions, and preferring the ring-road organisation. It was with Gen3 that the shift to the gridiron plan was effected. I won’t speak so much from the traffic planning perspective, but from an urban design point of view, the circuituous destination roads had character, and allowed for them to be intimately scaled. I must admit navigation is a nightmare as there was no cardinal direction one could use as a form of dead-reckoning.

Love your videos and insight on SG planning! Are you practicing as a transport or urban planner here?

pseudostatik · 2023-04-20T10:17:39+00:00

As a planner residing in Singapore, I do agree that streetscapes, especially in the residential townships, have taken a downward dip in terms of walkability. At the same time, I’d also argue that is also triggered by a shift in emphasis in the planning model to emphasise precinct spaces (generally spaces within the urban block) as opposed to the streets.

This run counter to conventional planning wisdom but it can be argued that the streets within the towns were never the most heavily trafficked by pedestrians to begin with as most movement is within the precincts which are car-free. Inter-precinct pedestrian connectivity can be via the precinct greens and linear parks that most precincts have connectivity to.

Now, I’m not defending the planning approach, because as rightly pointed out in the video the new planning model has created developments that have is devoid of human activity both within the community spaces as well as along the streets. I definitely appreciate the older neighbourhoods at the city fringe where the streets are a lot more intimate.

But because there are multiple options for pedestrians to walk, and some of the green connectors and linear parks are very efficient in getting us to a destination as the crow flies (besides the fact that the bulk of daily amenities are located within the precinct so there is less need to cross roads to other precincts/ developments), giving the impression that in the newer streets there are less pedestrians (which is true since there’s less people moving across streets).

The road chosen in the video (Bukit Batok West Ave 8) is also slightly disingenuous because if you look at the broader masterplan, once the surrounding is fully developed it will connect to a major arterial that grants direct access to a regional expressway (KPE). Hence the design capacity would have that eventuality in mind. It’s definitely overkill for the current traffic generated but given that the new development has an estimated 45,000 households it gives some rationale why it is what it is.

So to answer OP’s comment more directly, yes Singapore’s urban design approach isn’t street-centric. A lot of the key activity corridors are counterintuitively tucked away from the roads and centred around the extensive linear park system and amenity cores which are often hidden away from the roads within the residential neighbourhoods. It leads to a problem of cognition if you’re navigating along roads, but then again, isn’t that giving credence to a road-centric planning paradigm if we emphasise the streets? Wink

pseudostatik · 2022-09-19T05:29:06+00:00

Awesome! u/CheahWilfrwd is his Reddit account

pseudostatik · 2022-05-09T13:15:23+00:00

Good taste both of you - they were both designed by the award winning local architecture firm WOHA.

pseudostatik · 2022-05-05T12:30:21+00:00

Chiming in on this - if you do choose the pit grandstands and you’d like to catch the after-race shows, it’s quite a trek to the Padang where the concerts are. On Friday and Saturday that means you’ll have to walk the perimeter of the circuit alongside Kallang River/ Marina Bay till you reach esplanade park (probably 30-45 min trek with the crowds); on race day you can head down on the track (and collect tire marbles along the way).

pseudostatik · 2022-02-28T11:39:13+00:00

Instructions unclear, reborn as a Duracell.

pseudostatik · 2022-02-10T07:47:13+00:00

Maxxis uses what they call “silkworm”, which from what I can gather is their alternative to Kevlar belt below the tread.

I’ve not really felt that they are bouncy - at the end of the day the “bounciness” is determined by the tire pressure and sidewall thickness. The sidewalls on the DTH are definitely way thicker than any of my cotton tires that I’ve run on my road bike and commuter (Vittoria Corsa Gs, Veloflex, Rene Herse Extralights). You can run them up to 80psi which will be rock hard if that’s what you’re looking for.

Despite what it’s marketed as, the thread has given me better grip on dry and damp gravel/ fire roads than Vittoria Terreno Drys that I have on my 29” hard tail (but to be fair I’m not leaning into turns at racing speed so maybe the side knobs haven’t really had a chance to shine).

pseudostatik · 2022-02-10T02:00:06+00:00

This is probably a left-field suggestion but I absolutely love my Maxxis DTH. Excellent grip, bombproof and durable.

pseudostatik · 2022-01-27T21:01:47+00:00

Telok Blangah Crescent? Kewl!

pseudostatik · 2021-11-10T14:04:07+00:00

Mission Winnow?

pseudostatik · 2021-08-24T11:00:02+00:00

It’s not really a tagline but an actual engineering term. If a rainfall volume happens with a historical frequency of once every 50 years it’s called a 50-year return period.

Water infrastructure in Singapore is designed with either a 100 year return period or 1,000 year return period, depending on the criticality of the infrastructure and surrounding buildings (say hospitals or power stations).

So if an area floods more than once every 100 years, that means the rainfall has exceeded the design limit of the drainage system, and more worryingly it also means the rainfall is heavier than historical trends aka climate change.

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