Jurong Tripping 2 - JJ 27 April 2010 Video

Singapore's public housing scheme was to build public housing first and then sell them at rock bottom prices back to its own population, at a small profit (using everybody's compulsory saving and pension fund as collateral until paid up). The same basic idea was then applied to building government designed and financed medium size factories (inventing "flatted" factories, clusters of
, small manufacturing spaces, with large freight elevators and power etc in multi story industrial complexes) near population centres. That concept spawned an amazing amount of local entrepreneurs and thousands of start-up companies that laid the foundations to Singapore's amazing industrial miracle from the 70s till today. The idea was that the population should be able to get to work, shop and live within an 10 minute commute from their home in or near the various industrial centres of the island. The mother of that concept was the Jurong Town Corporation :-(( haha - that was before the government dropped the idea of the "short commute" in favour of an over dose quota for private vehicles, which now clutter up the networks of super highways, connecting the satellite cities. It's California-style rush hour jams now, bumper to bumper across the island ... The short commute has given way to the privilege of private transport ...) However, today is Sunday morning ! I have chosen Singapore's day of rest and play to do my Jurong tripping. From my own printing factory, which has produced a staggering 40 million Insight Guides until it's closure this month, I take you directly onto the Pan Island Express Way, a nostalgia rerun of my daily way "home from work".