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SINGAPORE: Workers’ Party Member of Parliament Jamus Lim (Sengkang) tried out the shuttle service after the Land Transport Authority announced that the Sengkang West LRT loop will run in just one direction for six months to facilitate expansion.
The LTA said on April 12 that from April 19 to Oct 18, the x West LRT loop via Cheng Lim will be closed. To accommodate commuters, a bus service (Shuttle Bus A) running every 3 to 5 minutes will be operated from Fernvale LRT to Sengkang LRT from 6 am to 10 pm, except for weekends and public holidays.
LTA asked the public to plan their journeys in advance and factor in additional travelling time.
Commuters on Sengkang West Shuttle Bus A who tap in before 7:30 a.m. and between 9 and 9:45 a.m. may do so for free when they sign up for Travel Smart Journeys (TSJ) on the SimplyGo app.
Assoc Prof Lim said in an April 23 social media post that he has received feedback from many residents about this change, especially since a big part of the loop serves Anchorvale, the ward he has been overseeing since 2020.
He also said that he’s tried the shuttle service for himself and found it to be more than satisfactory.
“I found the transit from train to bus very smooth—in fact, even more pleasant than usual, because the interchange waiting area for shuttles is air-conditioned (compared to the usual open-air LRT platform), because the wait time was shorter than normal (at least, during rush hour), and because you could always get on (it’s a double-decker, compared to the occasional one-carriage LRT),” the MP wrote.
Assoc Prof Lim added, however, that there are other issues residents are facing due to the LRT disruption, writing that some residents who need to make the commute in reverse, such as those who drop off their kids in Fernvale, are asking that services before morning peak hours also be considered, while others have suggested that existing feeder buses be operated more frequently. Some have also asked for limited services during the weekend, when they need to travel more in the other direction.
He added that he has reached out to LTA regarding the residents’ concerns and is waiting for the authority to give its answers.
In addition, he has raised a Parliamentary Question to understand why the disruption will take as long as six months.
“In the meantime, if you are a resident of Sengkang and have feedback about issues you’re experiencing, feel free to reach out,” he wrote. /TISG
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This article (Jamus Lim tests shuttle as Sengkang West LRT loop faces 6-month disruption) first appeared on The Independent Singapore News.
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In 2011, as a teenager, photographer Jack Plant encountered a cover of National Geographic featuring the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia. Captivated by the image -- and the story of a rare white bear living in one of the world’s last untouched wildernesses -- it was a life-defining moment.
The celebrated Route 66 turns 100 in 2026. It’s a milestone worth noting because the fabled highway captured the spirit of the age when car culture came to America.
Ever since Henry Ford began mass-producing his revolutionary Model T and made car ownership accessible to the middle class, Americans have been engaged in a love affair with automobiles and, in a much larger sense, with the enduring myth of the open road. Has there ever been a culture that extolled movement for the sake of movement as fervently as 20th century America?
And Route 66 was the epitome of that. The highway was referred to as the “Mother Road‘ by novelist John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath. An oft-covered song by Bobby Troup identified Route 66 as the place to get your kicks. In American culture the road that ran from Chicago through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and finally to Los Angeles was much more than a way to get from point A to point B.
In 1947, Andreas Feininger made a photograph that might be the single most perfect picture ever made of Route 66. It is beautiful, of course, but it is also a remarkable distillation of an idea: namely, that the American West is a place where people find themselves, or lose themselves, amid heat, sun, open spaces, enormous skies.
(Note that the version of the photo at the top of this story was cropped to fit the page template, but below you can appreciate the image in its uncropped, open-sky glory.)
Feininger’s photograph, taken in Seligman, Arizona, is packed with “information”—cars, a bus, human figures, a gas station, a garage, towering clouds, an arrow-straight ribbon of road to the horizon—but it’s the emptiness of the space that is most attractive. It can be read as a metaphor for the blank slate that innumerable people have sought in the West. Here is where you can redefine yourself, the scene suggests. Reimagine yourself. Reinvent yourself. Then keep moving.
Like the American West itself or like the mythical West of our collective dreams, Feininger’s Route 66 feels both companionable and limitless.
Ben Cosgrove is the Editor of LIFE.com
Route 66, here shown in Seligman, Arizona in 1947, took on a special romance for those who yearned to strike out for adventure.
Andreas Feininger The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock
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When I set out for Waterton National Park in Alberta, Canada, I imagined fall forests resplendent in golds, accented by oranges and reds. The smell of leaves composting into the earth and the peace of the earth quieting into winter. What I found was a blackened landscape, still deeply scarred by the 2017 Kenow Fire eight years ago.
When the foliage is gone, the structure lies bare. Undulations ripple along the mountainsides; seeps and drainages stand out.
The rhythms of the forest are speaking in structure, not color. This gift in this landscape of open vistas is long sightlines – a dream for wildlife spotting.
The Kenow Fire ignited with a lightning strike and burned slowly until September 11, 2017, when it blew up in critically dry conditions, surging from 30,000 to 104,000 acres overnight, overtaking Waterton National Park. The Kenow Wildfire was a fire of exceptional severity exceeding every fire since the Park’s records began in 1700. In the end, half of the vegetated land and 80% of the hiking trails in the Park were burnt.
In almost all of this burn area, most or all of the organic matter was seared away by the fire. The topsoil burned away to a depth of three feet.
Dense conifer forests are being replaced by young aspens and shrubs such as Saskatoon berry, thimbleberry, and huckleberry. It’s a bear’s delight! The conifers will come back, too. They grow relatively slowly.
Fire is necessary, natural, “normal” for these forests. Our human misunderstanding and resulting meddling have given rise to an increase in these large, catastrophic (by human standards) fires. This was a dramatic fire. The recovery is being documented and studied, providing insights into the land’s history and the resilience of nature.It’s often not what I expected, but it’s always an adventure.
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