Stop the whining about MND

RE: Blinkymummy – The Problem with Urban Redevelopment & Consultation

Graphic courtesy of URA Singapore

I was reading the news and blinkymummy’s blog on the ever noisy property related news.  It was the expectations of property prices and so on, now it is the complain about the need for consultation for any shift in URA’s plan.  I share the Blinkymmumy’s beliefs that "high handed" approach has brought us to where we are today. Politics elsewhere has evidently shows that being too populist to gain votes will slow the nation's progression. There will be too many opinions to consider; afterall how many out there is seriously interested to say "yes, this policy is good for the nation though it will hurt me very much". There might be a handful, I hope. I have grew up in the south-eastern district but was relocated to north-eastern district in the late 1990s when the government chose to redevelop the land that I grew up on; I have live happily since. There are always pros and cons to every single policy out there, more importantly, pros must outweigh the cons.. It is the same for simple decisions made everyday.

Since the internet fever from the General Elections in May, people jump at the slightest voice that the ruling party makes. Not that I am pro-government in every aspect, there is a need to rationalise. The expressway is not something new, but of course, it will be painful to those who had spent half of their life there. Since every other motorists who stay in the north are complaining about the heavy traffic during peak hours along CTE. Something and someone has to give way, right? So if the complain does not from the residents in the south, it will be the residents from the north.

I stress again that I am not pro-government is every aspect but there are situations that we need to take a step back to consider the next step ourselves and not rely on the "parents" to think for us, and when is not what we feel like, we shout.  It’s high time that we stop whining and make plans to move forward.