新加坡地鐵 Underground Singapore - Part 3 (Discovery Channel)

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新加坡地鐵 Underground Singapore - Part 3

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新加坡地鐵（英語：Mass Rapid Transit，簡稱MRT；馬來語：Sistem Pengangkutan Gerak Cepat；淡米爾語：சிங்கை துரிதக் கடவு ரயில்），又名大眾快速交通，是新加坡的城市軌道交通系統，由新加坡地下鐵路公司及新捷運營運。
新加坡地鐵是繼馬尼拉的輕軌鐵路運輸系統之後,東南亞地區第二個興建的地鐵系統。自1987年開通以來，新加坡地鐵已經發展成有3條路線（包括機場地鐵支線）的地鐵系統。­地鐵最早的線路於1987年通車，位於楊厝港和大巴窯之間。新加坡地鐵系統穿行整個新加坡，為全國接近一半的人口（即差不多200萬人）服務。每天平均搭乘人數為140萬­。
新加坡地鐵目前有64個車站，其中5個為轉車站，109.4公里的標準軌距線路。地鐵由陸交局負責建造，併為盈利公司SMRT 和SBS TRANSIT提供特許經營權。這兩家公司同時也經營巴士和德士業務，以保證各種公共交通服務的有效結合。新加坡地鐵也與政府組屋區里的輕軌系統相連接。 新加坡地鐵的服務從早上5點30起到凌晨1點結束。地鐵服務班次約5分鐘一次。節假日服務時間通常會延長。

Singapore is one of the most vibrant and colourful cities on the planet. And one of the busiest. With a permanent population of 4.5 million and a further 10 million visitors a year, the streets daily swarm with people, the roads are choked with cars, buses and bicycles and the trains are packed. Gridlock beckons.

In a bid to avoid transport meltdown, the government has embarked on a multi-billion-dollar project to construct the most sophisticated underground railway in the world. The project is hugely challenging. A complete, circular tunnel must be excavated beneath the city, while allowing life above to continue with minimum disruption.

When it opens some time after 2010, the new Central Circle Line will be 33.3km long and will have 29 stations. It will connect all the radial lines leading in and out of the city. Using the latest tunnel construction methods, the engineers must ensure that they avoid existing underground infrastructure such as the citys deep tunnel sewerage system and the electricity network.

The Central Circle Line will be the latest addition to Singapores famous Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) network, the backbone of the railway system in Singapore, which carries some 1.3 million people daily. The initial section was opened in 1987, making it the second oldest metro system in southeast Asia after Manilas Light Rapid Transport network.

The worlds first urban underground passenger-carrying railway started running between Paddington and Farringdon in London in 1863, and was the forerunner to the London Underground. The London Underground now has 274 stations, is more than 400km long and carries more than 2.7 million passengers a day.

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[ntuman]

They will need ET to ride a bicycle to the moon.

[malcolmyoung90]

Surprised to see Graeme Peterson back in Singapore and in this video. I went to his farewell party in late 2000 or early 2001, when he was leaving LTA and Singapore, and I got the impression that he was leaving for good.

[darren4094]

@07:28 why is the man holding a goose o.o

[darren4094]

7:28 why is that man holding a goose o.o

[peterinne]

there's no guts there's no glory lol so true