♥ Tuesday, April 29, 2008Hot sunday, 27apr08. Bedok reservoir park.  (Putting my words into the guy's mouth.) Dragonboaters!  Vari-Nice Eating House. -.- Not that it's very nice though.  Stairway to nowhere.  So weird eh. Not the vehicles moving, but the overhead bridge actually is moving?! See the motion blur (not edited)... -_- LOLS. - Okie. EXPRESSWAYS, FLYOVERS...! Yays, i like. Flyovers are always fascinating to me. Let's talk about the two flyovers nearest to my house. Bedok North Flyover.  This is the Trumpet Interchange. (My diagram sucked, supposed to look like a trumpet though.) You can compare this diagram to the previous pic up there, it's the same direction. (Btw i notice that wikipedia says B.North Flyover is a Cloverturbine Interchange. I disagree with that though. Or i may be wrong... Bwahhahas.) The characteristics of a trumpet interchange: Suitable for areas with lower traffic. Can only connect to two directions (to-and-fro). Which means drivers are unable to go/return from the Changi direction, only the Tuas direction is available. The other flyover. Eunos Flyover.  This is a modified Diamond Interchange, or actually more of Single-point Urban Interchange. (Now the diamond-shape is very obvious.) Characteristics of this flyover: For roads with heavier traffic. More complicated, with traffic lights to control the intersections. Connects to all four directions (to/from Changi & to/from Tuas). Basically you can choose anywhere you want to head towards (more flexible). - PIE (pan-island e'way): Connects from changi to tuas (apparently the longest expressway in sg), most accessible. But very very very likely to get traffic congestions, due to heavy usage. TPE (tampines e'way): Connects from tampines to seletar. A bit ulu (which means you see trees and rivers along the way). Along tpe, you can see sengkang, punggol, tampines and pasir ris housing estates. ECP (east coast parkway): Pretty tropical trees (coconut and palm) along the way for aesthetic purposes, cus tourists taking taxis from changi airport often use this route. Parallel to the east coast park. Will be shortened, when the new Marina Coastal E'way is built. AYE (ayer rajah e'way): Sort of a mirror image to the ECP. Lies below the PIE, it connects tuas to ECP (at tanjong pagar area). Passes by jur-east, clementi and queenstown areas. CTE (central e'way): North to south. Expensive road (due to the ERPs lols)! From yck to bt merah; passing by amk, bishan and chinatown areas. SLE (seletar e'way): Kinda ulu also (trees and trees). From yck to marsiling area. Passes by woodlands, upper thomson and sembawang areas. BKE (bukit timah e'way): I nv travelled on it before (hahahs). But i know it'll take you to the johor causeway. The only main road that cuts through the bt timah hill (=DDD)! Passes by the right edge of bt panjang and marsilling area. According to the sg street map, the bke passes by a lot of unhabited locations (ulu-ness). KJE (kranji e'way): Kranji always remind me of "crunchy" when the mrt announces the name, lols. Anyway, think only have been on kje for once or twice (like 2 mins journey only zz) on a smrt bus. Not many vehicles on that e'way though. From jur-west to cck to bt panjang (apparently the shortest e'way of all). Separates cck and yewtee, surrounds the north of bt panjang. KPE (kallang-paya lebar e'way): Woots mainly underground. Last time when i took buses to sch, i'd always see the construction sites. Not yet fully completed (i think). Slowest e'way (can only at 70km/h, while other above-ground e'ways can go 90km/h leh). Cool, but i don't really like, cus cannot see sceneries, lols. And lastly, the diagram of e'ways in sg. - Sorry for being long-winded. Hahs besides my interest in structures of flyovers and expressways, i'm also pretty interested in road names in sg, mrt (believe it or not, i'm actually able to list you most of the mrt stations in the correct order) and bus routes. =DDD Maybe i should work at LTA? Lols nah, i really hate their ERP thing. XD 11:52 am
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