I first visited Singapore in 1975. From the airport at Paya Labar and its quaint streets and old buildings, one could see where they were heading blessed as they were by dynamic , brave and dedicated leaders led by the legendary Lee Kuan Yew. All in the span of one generation. Bravo! all success and a happy future to You Singaporeans.
But with all the development and so on. All the Managers, Senior Engineers, many of the top level positions are filled with Europeans, Americans or Japanese experts. As a Singaporean it is very hard to see local Singaporeans becoming the managers of many companies. It is all filled by expats. 😔😔😔
after watching this, all i can think about is how much i take the foreign construction workers in singapore for granted. everyday, im in a sheltered, safe area like in school and i take the mrt without a second thought while the foreign constirction workers put their lives at risk to help build singapore. my respect and gratefulness for them has increased tenfold. if any of them are reading this, thank you for everything you've done for singapore ❤️🤍 we will always remember your hard work 💖
I do believe Lee Kuan Yew should have a lot more credit talked about as he was brilliant and committed and totally dedicated and he is what made Singapore advance as it did.
I been to Singapore many times, I always used the subway to get around. It's wonderful, it's almost identical to Hong Kong's system, even the ticket machines are the same.
Excellent Video. I love Singapore and I adore LEE KUAN YEW. He is the one that revolutionized Singapore. Continue the great work and strive for excellence Singapore!
Went to Singapore for several days in 2000. They had a huge flatscreen display on a building playing The Corrs Breathless on a seemingly endless loop. Three days of Breathless, over and over aaaaand over.
Construction technology has advanced since 2005 when this was made. Good history document. It's amazing how much Singapore has changed in the last ~20 years I've been travelling thru it. Impressive and excellently done. Gardens and native trees Much appreciated. The Jewel is amazing. Sad about the population (density) increase however.
Singapore is an amazing place - certainly they have accomplished so much for a small nation (especially considering how chaotic and impoverished they were right after they left Malaysia). I just wish that it wasn't a dictatorship, and that immigrants who came to work there were in a better situation.
I had worked on the Circle Line as an intern, had to say this is my least favoruite MRT line compared to Singapore's 2 more recent additions such as the Downtown Line and the Thomson East Coast Line.
You do know that English is an official language and the common language of government, business, and education? Fluent English would have been a job requirement.
@@DeanStephen American English is the preferred version of English. However the engineer had exceptional English, I wish my German and Spanish was of a similar level.
A - Miracle - for sure Singapore is not. But the determination of ONE man who also had the people behind him, sometimes no doubt reluctant, to make the Citystate to what it is today.
@@muhammaduwaismuhsinmuaz4385 Thought only Indonesians love to claim but Malaysians also have the same attitude. Nasi lemak is a Malay food so you cannot ascertain where it is exactly come from as Singapore origins are Malay as well.
i just received a racist rant here in america "you in asia are 3rd world " i wish he could watch this video and see also the levitating trains in japan and china
Documentaries like this are interesting, but 16 years old and not labeled as such, constitutes click-bait. By now, it's probably due for yet another expansion.
Yup as of the time I'm writing this the station at 44:30 (Woodleigh) has already been opened for almost 10 years & is now beside the under-construction town centre of 1 of Singapore's newest towns Bidadari. Since this video/documentary was made Singapore has built another line (Downtown) & is currently building a 3rd (Thomson-East Coast)
@@lzh4950 maybe they should also show a map of the subway system and where they are actually expanding? This was much less informative than it could've been.
How the building will break?The foundation of building in singapore is very strong.Did they made subway after HDB and condo were built?Apologies for writing my question here
Singapore metro having similar rules to the Dubai metro. Basically, both are driveless. Running in platforms, shouting in platforms and coaches, eating chewing gum ban, and prohibition for eating food and drinking water are also banned. These are a few to mention.
Dubai imported expertise from Singapore to build their metro. Even their Road Transport Authority (RTA) is based on Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA)
I Inspired by This Video, Hopefully, Metro Manila Subway Will Do The Same Construction and Overcome its Challenges from When Building the Singapore Subway
This is touch and go civil works albeit VERY hazardous and hope all goes well resulting after dynamite detonation. Very , very precarious ENGINEERING works. HOPE every worker safe and well.
11:01 Imagine being a feng-shui "expert" and charging thousands of dollars to tell people bullshit you just pulled out of your ass. What if this guy told the government "sorry, but the feng shui energy thing forbids building a subway anywhere near downtown... it just wouldn't be right". LOL does anyone think that would fly or this guy wouldn't be detained for that? So he's really an objective expert and they'd openly publish his report without making sure it wasn't complete bullshit, like 'no, you just can't build this'? I don't think so. Anyway, to hell with this guy.
When I asked the Almighty for peace, The Almighty showed me Earthians living among religious menace. When I asked the Almighty for strength, The Almighty gave me problems to face. When I asked the Almighty for happiness, The Almighty showed me the sufferings of poor, When I asked the Almighty to which religion to follow, The Almighty showed me the madness of religious slaves. When I asked the Almighty for wealth, The Almighty showed me corruptive service slaves. When I asked the Almighty for favour and help, The Almighty showed me corruptive humans. When I asked the Almighty to save the people from distress, The Almighty blessed Earthians to live with love and affection, Finally the Almighty gave me nothing or any thing, But the Almighty showed me the right path to live without religious menace.
It'll prolly take about more than 5 years considering most of the railway project in the Philippines were postponed due to pandemic. I'm hoping that the new administration won't cancel it.
Who puts the bloody background music to these videos it's too loud and it's crap I can hardly hear what the commentator is saying there's no need for the loud music it's not a f......ing disco ,it gets me mad when the sound engineer adds loud music and spoils the video ,I turned it off.
Oh yes, Singapore has progressed far and very quickly. However, the cost is restrictions on personal liberty that would not be acceptable in Europe or North America. You take your choice of which you prefer.
Yeah... all the development is good... But when Singapore will recognize the LGBTQ+ community?... It is absurd to say that they do not exists in Singapore. EVEN NOW in 2021 they do not recognize it and "criminalizes" the same sex love. Such a modern country!!
I hope they fired the freak who selected the music for this doc. None is needed anyway but this collection of strangely unrelated background noise makes it borderline unwatchable. Out @ 21:21.
I first visited Singapore in 1975. From the airport at Paya Labar and its quaint streets and old buildings, one could see where they were heading blessed as they were by dynamic , brave and dedicated leaders led by the legendary Lee Kuan Yew. All in the span of one generation. Bravo! all success and a happy future to You Singaporeans.
But with all the development and so on. All the Managers, Senior Engineers, many of the top level positions are filled with Europeans, Americans or Japanese experts. As a Singaporean it is very hard to see local Singaporeans becoming the managers of many companies. It is all filled by expats. 😔😔😔
how old were u then?
after watching this, all i can think about is how much i take the foreign construction workers in singapore for granted. everyday, im in a sheltered, safe area like in school and i take the mrt without a second thought while the foreign constirction workers put their lives at risk to help build singapore.
my respect and gratefulness for them has increased tenfold. if any of them are reading this, thank you for everything you've done for singapore ❤️🤍 we will always remember your hard work 💖
thank you
I do believe Lee Kuan Yew should have a lot more credit talked about as he was brilliant and committed and totally dedicated and he is what made Singapore advance as it did.
I been to Singapore many times, I always used the subway to get around. It's wonderful, it's almost identical to Hong Kong's system, even the ticket machines are the same.
Excellent Video. I love Singapore and I adore LEE KUAN YEW. He is the one that revolutionized Singapore. Continue the great work and strive for excellence Singapore!
"Singapore is the only country in the world that regularly reminds its commuters how to behave." ???? Really?
it's a dictatorship with threats of caning
they just tell you not to be an asshole, dont block entrances, and be courteous to others.
@@SkashTheKitsune lol idk whr u get ur info frm but its a democratic
@@SkashTheKitsune Typical American sterotypes Asian country
Went to Singapore for several days in 2000. They had a huge flatscreen display on a building playing The Corrs Breathless on a seemingly endless loop. Three days of Breathless, over and over aaaaand over.
Construction technology has advanced since 2005 when this was made. Good history document. It's amazing how much Singapore has changed in the last ~20 years I've been travelling thru it. Impressive and excellently done. Gardens and native trees Much appreciated. The Jewel is amazing. Sad about the population (density) increase however.
Singapore is an amazing place - certainly they have accomplished so much for a small nation (especially considering how chaotic and impoverished they were right after they left Malaysia). I just wish that it wasn't a dictatorship, and that immigrants who came to work there were in a better situation.
Meanwhile in Melbourne Australia.....................crickets. Singapore I salute you amazing train system
I had worked on the Circle Line as an intern, had to say this is my least favoruite MRT line compared to Singapore's 2 more recent additions such as the Downtown Line and the Thomson East Coast Line.
Why?
The Japanese engineer has incredible English.
Damn his English is better than mines! 😏
LOL, Exactly, No Engrish
You do know that English is an official language and the common language of government, business, and education? Fluent English would have been a job requirement.
@@DeanStephen American English is the preferred version of English. However the engineer had exceptional English, I wish my German and Spanish was of a similar level.
Antonmursid🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💝✌👌✋🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨💝✌
Definitely not the "olderst metro line " in South East Asia ( Manila had one opened in 1984), but definitely the best in SEA.
Nothing is "olderst" anywhere because that's not a word.
Are you an online spelling police?? Its a mistype obviously unless you are dumb enough not to realize it.
Think because Manila's system is classified as an LRT instead as a metro/subway?
@@lzh4950 Think because the vlog says "oldest rapid transit system" not subway.
Welcome to Singapore to visit our not the oldest metro line which we call Smrt. It is not the best IN SEA as you prescribe.
A - Miracle - for sure Singapore is not. But the determination of ONE man who also had the people behind him, sometimes no doubt reluctant, to make the Citystate to what it is today.
By 2008?
When was the reportage made ?
The collapse of the station was in 2004.
That line opened in 2009.
@Refugia Reeks
Troll - activated 4.20.2021....!!!!
I was thinking the same when was this documentary made.
Yup 2008...when the un was talking...yo can see construction where mbs would be.
2005 at the end says in roman numbers MMV
The rocks are marked with a 2005 date when the tunnel machine gets jammed on the hard rock under the swimming pool
As an australian, I was amazed by the fact that the trains in singapore arrived on time and didn't cost my entire paycheck
In Tokyo if the trains are late more than a few minutes it sometimes makes the news
@@jamesrawlins735 I read that Japanese public transport is perfectly timed to godly precision. a few minutes would be quite a big deal
this is revisiting decade old documentary series
So this is how a subway is being made.
Kudos to all the engineers💪
At 15:01, hard hat sticker "Gambarimasho", a nice motto to live by.
What does it mean?
@@nahCmeR "I'll try my best"
At 3:21, Did they use slabs of timber inside the concrete ring segment? OMG.
Those may be handling pads in between the segments. Most of these segments are just full of rebar cages.
If you go to Singapore, don't forget to visit Geylang.
A person of culture ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@SirTrollingham indeed! many good food there !
4 million people? I guess this video was made at least 15-20 years ago. Edit: 2005 after watching the video
Yeah it's been in service since 2008 I think
*Singapore current population is 5.8 million people; that's 45% higher than the 4 million mentioned in the opening. This is a really old video.*
How did we get from 4 to 6 mil in a span of a decade? 😥😥😥😥😥😥😥
@@90taetaeya Have you been living under a rock or blind?
If you noticed in the video, The Sail and MBS wasn’t build yet
Excellent upload. Full watched and have a wonderful day.
Oh I missed my home sweet home Singapore! On the way back home from London Heathrow to Singapore! Hello Chicken Rice! Hello Nasi Lemak!!
Hello, death penalty!
Hello no gay people... Hello all other individualities that is crushed...
@@muhammaduwaismuhsinmuaz4385 Thought only Indonesians love to claim but Malaysians also have the same attitude. Nasi lemak is a Malay food so you cannot ascertain where it is exactly come from as Singapore origins are Malay as well.
@@haidendin3271 uh ok...
Good that see this video because we in the Philippines are starting our on subway we learned so many lessons about subway.
i hope make documentaary the first subway of philippines
i just received a racist rant here in america "you in asia are 3rd world " i wish he could watch this video and see also the levitating trains in japan and china
The narator is over dramating it
This is what to expect
Lol
Documentaries like this are interesting, but 16 years old and not labeled as such, constitutes click-bait. By now, it's probably due for yet another expansion.
this line they were talking about at the start already opened a decade ago in fact. Two new lines have opened since then.
Yup as of the time I'm writing this the station at 44:30 (Woodleigh) has already been opened for almost 10 years & is now beside the under-construction town centre of 1 of Singapore's newest towns Bidadari. Since this video/documentary was made Singapore has built another line (Downtown) & is currently building a 3rd (Thomson-East Coast)
@@lzh4950 maybe they should also show a map of the subway system and where they are actually expanding? This was much less informative than it could've been.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING..
watching the Amsterdam Riots like that is...
"whoops"
Great documentary...
The Philippines has now constructing extensive subway tunneling projects, complementing those LRT and MRT lines.
How the building will break?The foundation of building in singapore is very strong.Did they made subway after HDB and condo were built?Apologies for writing my question here
The best cleanest subway system in the world. Period. I love my Sg ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I would say both Tokyo and Seoul are as clean
WOW~ Very interesting.
This channel should inform us this video was recorded at least 15 years ago. Old images. This an old video, but was published on TH-cam in 2021.
Actually pretty much all of Spark's documentaries are older documentaries.
The singapore’s subway build the challenge
Singapore shows how good a country can become if they have a benevolent dictator.
Singapore - no country is run completely rationally, but Singapore may come the closest of any place on earth.
Singapore metro having similar rules to the Dubai metro. Basically, both are driveless. Running in platforms, shouting in platforms and coaches, eating chewing gum ban, and prohibition for eating food and drinking water are also banned. These are a few to mention.
Dubai imported expertise from Singapore to build their metro. Even their Road Transport Authority (RTA) is based on Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA)
@@keffinsg IIRC Singapore's MRT operator SMRT also helps operate Dubai's metro?
@@keffinsg even the stations look is a copy cat of Singapore's.
Amazing work to see thank you for the video.
Great job.
Singapore people work hard to get where we are .
4:23 I used to manage a track team for my high school that is my home, and we never had our athletes do this much exercise before practice! LMFAO
Stretching reduces injuries and helps prevent workplace accidents
You weren't very good then. Warm up is essential.
Tunnel boring machines are a luxury. China built many kilometers of tunnels with drills and dynamite.
And?
@@zico739 and that's awesome takes sheer will to dig tunnels with simple tools and bare hands
Liam Neeson???
A particular set of skills are needed for this tunnel =)
Nice educational videos.
I Inspired by This Video, Hopefully, Metro Manila Subway Will Do The Same Construction and Overcome its Challenges from When Building the Singapore Subway
They going on about how those people got moved out of their home. They forget to mention they would have all been compensated to do so.
Asia the new kid on the BLOC.
New York did it so piece of cake
Singapore Singapore 😌
This is touch and go civil works albeit VERY hazardous and hope all goes well resulting after dynamite detonation. Very , very precarious ENGINEERING works.
HOPE every worker safe and well.
This was also nearly 20 years ago...
I really hope nigeria is watching these
"Please Refrain From Talking!"
Why on earth didn't they freeze the ground?
Very good jobs
Why did they show Amsterdam here? Amsterdam could have gotten it's own episode!
Kishore Mahbubani looks young in 2021...hmmm...
They should have used amyl nitrate for charges
I used to have to take the bus from east coast area to a subway station, now there is a subway station just across my place.......
First!! go singapore!!
41:54 Good that the train stations also act as bomb shelters. 👍
That's appalling to dig and blast under another subway. Spooky stuff.
I like👍 💥🔥💥🔥💥🔥
Did the 120m (rock cavern) 65m (cable tunnel) 40- 30m (MRT) just tired doing all tunnels. 😂
SKILLS....
4 million people ? Try 5.7 million, and that doesn't include tourism, which can raise it above 6 million easy..
Feng Sui pronounced as Fung Suy in Asia
That intro music sounds like the X-men cartoon intro
YES
Antonmursid🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💝🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨💝✌🙌👌
Antonmursid🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏💝🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨💝✌🙌👌
11:01 Imagine being a feng-shui "expert" and charging thousands of dollars to tell people bullshit you just pulled out of your ass. What if this guy told the government "sorry, but the feng shui energy thing forbids building a subway anywhere near downtown... it just wouldn't be right".
LOL does anyone think that would fly or this guy wouldn't be detained for that? So he's really an objective expert and they'd openly publish his report without making sure it wasn't complete bullshit, like 'no, you just can't build this'? I don't think so. Anyway, to hell with this guy.
Another suggestion flying cars.
They would be really loud and bad for the environment
Are you actually that stupid or is this a troll comment?
wood foundation? wow
i watch this 15 years ago.. LOL.. ''why''!!!!!
Old video la, Im sure this is at least 5 years old.
Shenzen subway join the chat.
Why didn't they empty that swimming pool as a precaution?
When I asked the Almighty for peace,
The Almighty showed me Earthians living among religious menace.
When I asked the Almighty for strength,
The Almighty gave me problems to face.
When I asked the Almighty for happiness,
The Almighty showed me the sufferings of poor,
When I asked the Almighty to which religion to follow,
The Almighty showed me the madness of religious slaves.
When I asked the Almighty for wealth,
The Almighty showed me corruptive service slaves.
When I asked the Almighty for favour and help,
The Almighty showed me corruptive humans.
When I asked the Almighty to save the people from distress,
The Almighty blessed Earthians to live with love and affection,
Finally the Almighty gave me nothing or any thing,
But the Almighty showed me the right path to live without religious menace.
i imagine how Japan 🇯🇵 will work our Metro Manila Subway 🇵🇭
It'll prolly take about more than 5 years considering most of the railway project in the Philippines were postponed due to pandemic. I'm hoping that the new administration won't cancel it.
"We are literally threading ourselves through the eye of a needle".....
....no, no you're not.
almost half the video is about Amsterdam!
👌👌 Philippines
Circle Line MRT
Who puts the bloody background music to these videos it's too loud and it's crap I can hardly hear what the commentator is saying there's no need for the loud music it's not a f......ing disco ,it gets me mad when the sound engineer adds loud music and spoils the video ,I turned it off.
👍👍👍
Made in 2005. Thus more than 15 years old => Klick bait => Downvote.
Actually no, it was made in 1987. Stop getting your info from TikTok
It’s also not click bait. This is actually how our MRT tunnels are built.
12:21 why are they looking up the women's skirt
Once the boarders are open come down to New Zealand and live the dream everyone , 😁
no, karen island is squandering its wealth as expected when ruled by those that can't be held responsible.
Guess am third
Misplaced annoying music, cuts every 3 seconds and constant whipping around of the camera makes this close to unwatchable...
Oh yes, Singapore has progressed far and very quickly. However, the cost is restrictions on personal liberty that would not be acceptable in Europe or North America. You take your choice of which you prefer.
Yeah... all the development is good... But when Singapore will recognize the LGBTQ+ community?... It is absurd to say that they do not exists in Singapore.
EVEN NOW in 2021 they do not recognize it and "criminalizes" the same sex love. Such a modern country!!
Think a high school in Singapore (Millenia Institute) also recently suspended a transgender student for attending school in a female uniform
@@lzh4950 mo
I prefer not living in a slum and not worrying about basic life essentials
I don are about liberty that’s just excuses for stupid people to behave badly
Sad to the world getting butchered
Needs to
Horrible traffic jam everyday. Can subways solve this problem?
Come to sg, we have fixed that problem. There are a limited amount of cars on the road and most citizens take mrt lrt or bus
@@vertus977 Nice! 😁
I hope they fired the freak who selected the music for this doc. None is needed anyway but this collection of strangely unrelated background noise makes it borderline unwatchable. Out @ 21:21.
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This is 10 yrs old. It's old stuff.
Anytime someone says literally it's BS.