In loving memory
today, we moan the death of the 80 year old angsana tree behind RJC. well, if you haven't noticed, since yesterday, the tree that watches over all ppl playing basketball and occasionally irritates them by sending dry leaves flying in their faces is GONE!one can only take comfort in believing that it may have passed on to a better place, but we all know that it is more likely to have passed to a woodmill.
and the singapore govt still wants us to integrate the aged into our society, and here they are weeding out all the poor elderly. we know that all the pollution is causing harm to the trees and making survival a chore for them, esp for all the aged, but isn't euthanasia disallowed in singapore?
anyway, i read in the papers that the rationale was that the tree was dangerous to motorists cause it's smack in the middle of the road and no one heeds the speed limit imposed on the road. all hail the govt for making singapore roads a safer place!
i'm like: what the hell, its the tree's fault that ppl are speeding. now now, i'm quite sure the tree didn't want to be in the middle of the road. nor be rammed into and bloodied by some stupid speeding motorists. its not the tree's fault that we stupid ppl built a road right through with it in the middle? i know theres a lack of space in singapore, but i'm quite sure building the road 1 lane space to the other side wouldn't cause greater land scarcity on us right?
whats more, the tree didn't plan the layout of the roads, so chop the ppl who did! such a curved road is like to cause accidents to motorists than any tree.
besides, i'm quite sure a speeding motorist who doesn't follow the speed limit would have an equal chance of meeting into an accident at the road or anywhere else. maybe now we should ban pedestrians from walking on roads and demolish the fences and backgate of rj, and maybe that bus stop over there also to make the roads and EVEN safer place. heck, maybe soon they'll chop down all the trees in singapore to reduce motorists from knocking into them.
trees don't cause accidents, motorists who speed do, the position could have been well occupied by a car instead of a tree, and does that reduce the risk of an accident? maybe its time we imprison ppl who were robbed cause they were tempting robbers so that we can reduce crime rate!
i'll BET the tree was just getting in the way of development there, thats why they decided to chop it down. dangerous? just a load of boosheet. and i bet they deliberately built the road like this to give an excuse to chop the tree down!
singapore has no lack of buildings and roads, but we definitely lack big nice shady trees beside your bball courts. so city planners, do your job properly to minimise casualties, pls?
W toked kok @ 7/16/2007 08:54:00 pm
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