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Good that the public transport is being made more extensive, but takes long long time for these tunnels to get built. SINGAPORE: Singapore will have two new MRT lines, while three existing lines will be extended. These will double the rail network stretch to 360 kilometres, compared with the current 178 kilometres. By then, eight in 10 households will have a train station within a 10-minute walk, compared with about six in 10 currently. These plans for the rail network followed a review of the Land Transport Master Plan by the Land Transport Authority (LTA). Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew announced the new developments when he visited Chinatown Station of the Downtown Line on Thursday. The new lines are the Cross Island Line (CRL) and Jurong Region Line (JRL). The CRL will run from Jurong Industrial Estate and pass through areas such as West Coast, Bukit Timah, Ang Mo Kio, Punggol and Pasir Ris before ending in Changi. The 50-kilometre line, which is expected to be completed by 2030, will be connected to all existing lines. It is expected to relieve the load of the existing East-West and North-East lines and shorten journey times significantly. For example, it takes about 40 minutes to get from Punggol to Pasir Ris by bus. With the CRL, it will take 10 to 15 minutes. The other new line -- Jurong Region Line -- will be completed in 2025. The 20-kilometre line will pass through areas such as Jurong West, Jurong Industrial District, West Coast, Choa Chu Kang and potential new developments in Tengah. Those travelling from the North to Jurong, like students of Nanyang Technological University, can skip Jurong East Station on the East-West Line. Three existing lines -- the Circle Line (CCL), Downtown Line (DTL) and North-East Line (NEL) -- will be extended. The CCL will be four kilometres longer -- to close the link between HarbourFront and Marina Bay stations and save commuters the hassle of making multiple transfers. The extension, which will also pass through Keppel, is expected to be completed by 2025. The DTL will be two kilometres longer by 2025 -- to run through the East Coast area. It will be connected to the East West Line and the Eastern Region Line, which will be ready by 2020, so that commuters can transfer between the Downtown Line and Eastern Region Line in the east. As for the NEL, two kilometres will be added by 2030 -- in tandem with new developments in Punggol -- to serve Punggol North, including the new Punggol Downtown. The LTA is also exploring the possibility of an additional station between Sembawang and Yishun stations on the North-South Line, in anticipation of future developments in the area.

Hi! I've replaced my factory headunit with an aftermarket one, including new 360 degree cameras. The factory headunit reverse camera had built-in dynamic parking lines (ie. moves with the steering wheel). The after-market one does not. The installer said it's like that but didn't really explain why. My question is whether the dynamic lines are built into the camera, or if there is an additional processor somewhere in the connection between camera and head-unit. I've tried to look it up online but haven't found clear information. Most say there's a gyroscope inside the camera which provides the data for the lines to move. Does this mean if I simply replace the camera with one with a built-in gyroscope I'll have dynamic lines (instead of static lines currently?) Thanks!

Stay tuned... Jaguar lines up J-Pace SUV to take fight to Porsche Cayenne https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/jaguar-j-pace-to-fight-porsche-cayenne. J-Pace to use Range Rover running gear and powertrains, due 2021; electric-only new XJ on sale in 2019 Jaguar is working at top speed on an all-new £80,000-plus J-Pace SUV for 2021, designed to beat the Porsche Cayenne at its own game. The model will have a brand-new shape inspired by Jaguar design director Ian Callum and an obvious on-road bias, but it will draw on theRange Rover for much of its running gear. It will be the brand’s fourth eye-grabbing entry into the gigantic global SUV market in just five years. Jaguar stands on the edge of a highly profitable, much higher-volume future, based on rapidly rising sales of an SUV family that started with the F-Pace just two years ago and will probably account for two-thirds of its total sales in the early 2020s. Also prominent in this progress will be a quick increase in the number of electrified Jaguars – both hybrids and full EVs – some of which will draw on the hardware, software and design influences of the revolutionary I-Pace, just launched. The company, which promises at least one electrified version of every model by 2020, will keep its mix of performance-oriented saloons, SUVs and sports cars while accepting that burgeoning world demandfor soft-roaders is its real passport to higher sales and big profits. Nine new Jaguars to expect in the coming years The success of the 2016 F-Pace and the embryo success of the smaller, more affordable E-Pace are the main reasons for current improvements. However, company bosses are well aware that they need to continue producing upper- end models like the J-Pace to reinforce Jaguar’s image as the home of substantial, luxurious performance cars. Key models of the near to medium future are next year’s all-electric XJ limousine – which is being launched at that time to mark the 50th anniversary of Sir William Lyons’ seminal XJ original – and the bigger, super-luxury J-Pace. Jaguar’s volumes, decimated in the financial crash of 2008-2009, have been rebuilt rather laboriously to around 150,000-160,000 cars a year, while bullish Land Rover and Range Rover sales have lifted total Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) volume beyond 600,000. Although that total is impressive in some ways, Tata-JLR bosses at one time planned to reach 800,000 sales by now and still have their eyes on an annual group total exceeding one million. Jaguar’s SUV charge: In a sense, the F-Pace of 2016 was the beginning of the rest of Jaguar’s life. It has become the marque’s most successful model for decades, selling more than 70,000 copies last year, after a similar performance the previous year. There are strong indications that we’ll see a plug-in hybrid concept this year, drawing on know-how from the recent Range Rover and Range Rover Sport hybrids. A mid-life refresh is due next year, too, (perhaps the two will coincide) and a full replacement is already timed for late 2022, because this is one model Jaguar wouldn’t want to get wrong. Hopes are even higher for the recently launched, smaller E-Pace, whose BMW rival, the X1, posted sales of around 120,000 last year. In the UK alone, sales of all compact SUVs exceeded 170,000 last year, more than doubling in three years. Jaguar is rightly bullish about further expansion of the class. The one awkward point is that a generous slice of this volume was earned by the Range Rover Evoque, now six years old and still a major force in the market. The E-Pace’s success is certain to cause some sales cannibalisation. The I-Pace – Jaguar’s first electric car and launched at the Geneva motor show last week – has already won big plaudits for looks, proportions and the boldness of its concept. It is being made in Graz, Austria,by Magna Steyr at greater cost than in one of Jaguar’s own plants, but the company regards it as proof of its credentials as a leading user of new technology and is happy to invest. The best guidance on I-Pace volumes is that it will be “somewhere either side of F-Type”, which sounds like 10,000-15,000 cars a year, although company insiders are honestly unsure how it will go. Given the combined expense of the model’s new, stand-alone electric architecture and Magna’s manufacturing, this looks like being Jaguar’s least profitable model, although JLR CEO Ralf Speth insists it’ll be a money-maker “at the anticipated volumes”. Some say it could eventually be made in China, where manufacturing electric cars has recently become easier. The fourth SUV in Jaguar’s frame, the J-Pace, will be a sleek and luxurious all- aluminium model for the early 2020s. It’s likely to use a developed version of the Range Rover aluminium architecture, although it will be longer, lower, probably more spacious in the rear and much more on-road biased. It will employ Range Rover running gear and powertrains, and plug into a rising demand for super-luxury SUVs. Jaguar bosses will expect it to sell especially well in China, where well-heeled owners are chauffeur-driven. JAG’S SALOON CHALLENGE Jaguar needs saloons. They’ve been a backbone since the heyday of company founder Lyons but not enough people are buying them now. Last year, the compact XE, launched in 2015 to fight the BMW 3 Series and Audi A4, made barely 19,000 sales in Europe (around 25,000 in the previous year) against 170,000 for the leading Mercedes C-Class. The mid-sized XF, recently refreshed and with theSportbrake (estate) to help, does little better. Replacements are nonetheless planned for both cars in the early 2020s, mostly because special long-wheelbase versions of both have recently gone on sale in China and Jaguar is prepared to bet the resultant volume will make them viable. Big Jaguar saloon news is an electric XJ (as scooped by Autocar earlier this year), due to be shown this year and on sale in 2019. The car is believed to be a second application for the twin-electric-motor architecture introduced with the I-Pace, with all the benefits in smoothness and cabin space we’ve already seen. Jaguar wants the new XJ to be seen as revolutionary – as several of its predecessors were in their time – in a category diminished by the rising success of luxurious SUVs. JAG’S SPORTS CAR DECISION Jaguar faces potentially agonising decisions over sports cars. Should it drop them or give them more prominence? There are strong arguments for both courses, and Jaguar bosses are trying to decide the correct direction. Even before Tata bought JLR in 2008, it was clear there was going to be a brand-new Jaguar sports car. Ratan Tata, with fond memories of XK120s, was in favour from the beginning. The result was the 2013 F-Type convertible, which looked terrific although industry pundits have since criticised its price structure, the time it took JLR to add coupé (2014) and the lack of a small-engined version until 2017. Sales run at currently about 10,000 a year. The argument in favour of sports cars goes thus: Jaguar needs its image builder, just as Porsche (which still calls itself a sports car company) uses its minority 911 and 718 models to create an image for its SUVs and saloons. The F-Type should be raced, replaced and enhanced to add lustre to the brand. These arguments work in favour of a Jaguar XK coupé, another candidate for electric I-Pace and XJ architecture that could be priced just under the Bentley Continental GT. The anti-sports-car argument is that the F-Type is a modest earner, as all sporty cars now are. Its structure is expensive because it shares little with other production models. It doesn’t sell well in China, and even US sales run at about only 4000 units a year. The good news is that Jaguar now seems to have its model building blocks in place for the next few years, and they are starting to be effective. Since the F-Pace, Jaguar has started earning solid profits, with more and better in prospect from the E-Pace. The company’s managers can now give more concentration to image enhancers (like the I-Pace, XJ, J-Pace and possibly XK) it has always needed to maintain a special place in the world.

As suggested, what are the best pickup lines you would use to break the ice with a potential date. Asking for errr... friend.

I notice there are quite a few drivers who like to cut across chevrons or double white lines when their lane is congested but the adjacent lane is free. Personally it irritates me as you don't expect people to be cutting into your lane at those places, not to mention it's a traffic offence. What do you think?

dunno if this has been asked before or not ... my current mobile phone contract has 12gb of data but expiring by Nov. if i recontract, will my data remain at 12gb or will adjust down to the 2gb which all new lines are getting now ?

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Any bro know how much summon as never state n say no composition, can appeal? this morning kana at City Sq there while i park along the 2 sided road cause raining went to pick children at CitySquare opp the road, come back abt 10mins kana liao..

With downtown lines, Northeast line, east coast line, additional north south line, 10 years down, no need car liao, everyone can take MRT and pay property prices through their noses. Everyone can expect a mrt stn at their door! How will this affect the prices of those property with existing lines?

Sorry for being ignorance. I was so called "fine" for parking at a side of the road with no double-yellow, zig-zag or any lines. However, when i was about to make my way down to collect my car, i saw cisco male fatimah take his notes and wrote down his in-famous "saman with his paper and pen. As it's not a eletronic saman, will the paper saman count? Will it be sent to my house? And, what are the chances of appealing? No lines indicate to park or not, how to determine?

Hi fellow motorists, We all know stopping along a road with dbl zigzag lines carries a fine of 140 (?) and demerit pts of 4. And thats what i kena. Long ago, i was along shenton way. Lost my way, and didnt want to kena ERP coz of entering wrong road, then back and kena another ERP, i had to stop to check the street directory. I stopped behind a taxi stand taht is good for 2 taxis. I remembered that day, the taxi stand was full with a few taxi (more than 2 for sure). I am effectively a taxi in a queue if my car is painted with COmfort logo, and im on the dbl zigzag line. I was happily reading the map, and when i looked up, a scooter carrying the traffic marshal rode away after writing something on his notepad. I know im dead. bEing a good citizen, i paid the fine, took the points, and moved on. Recently, when i was back in the area again, i saw that the taxi queue along either Shenton way or Robinson road are always very long. Far more taxis are waiting in the 'just for 2 taxis' stand, and encroaching into the roads where the double zigzag lines are painted. And when a traffic marshall road past, nothing was done. In case like this, doesnt it carry double standard? How come a taxi, being on the ZZ line, is able to escape the penalty just because it is queuing? Then what is the 'For 2 Taxis only' sign for? If i was in line with the last waiting taxi, doesnt that render me immunity as well? Or does TAxi is a special group that is free from the ZZ lines rule? Puzzled, i wrote to LTA. to be continued.

I was told by the shop opposite of p-- ---g that he can skim and slot lines (groove lines) on my odyssey front rotor disks brakes. He's charging for this work for $150 for both disks. Brand new slotted disk is $200+ per piece. My disks brakes have travelled about 39K km. But my questions for this process are : 1. Are my disk brakes able to perform after skimming and slotted of lines? 2. Can the OEM disk brakes able to stand the braking after skimming and slotted of lines? 3. Is this process worth or are there better solutions coz not willing to spend on 4 or 6 pot? Please advise. Thanks.

Here is an account of what i had encountered when im on my way into JB at ard noon time: (PS: note this is not a complaint thread, just an awarenss thread. Although i do dislike the 'said' driver ) There is a slight jam over at the bridge leading to SG custom, so i was in the queue almost reaching the end of the bridge. Just then, a Black Suzuki Swift (not Sports version) SG*2646* jumped queue few cars infront of me! Okay, after that we were in the 2 'individual' lanes, seperated by Double White Lines (That Suzuki Swift and mine were on the left lane), he then cut to the next lane infront of a Lexus (causing that poor driver to jam brake). The next thing, i saw 1 police officer (who is holding a small note pad), walk towards the SS and jot down his plate number. That officer then 'signal' him to wind down his window (passenger side), and i saw from my rear mirror that they had an argument, last i saw the SS driver (male in his late 20s with passenger) came out of the car n argue with the officer Finally something was done to those who cut queue n disobey rule (double white lines), BUT i really do hope something could be done to those who cut queue on purpose over at the bridge leading to SG custom. Anyone knows what is the offence for crossing Double White Lines??

MRT lines to double by 2020, 100 new train stations to be built By Asha Popatlal, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 25 January 2008 1218 hrs Photos 1 of 1 Related News

Oh, btw, share with bros here... McWell is selling steel braided hose lines for $298 (incl installation and bleeding + 1 year warranty). Cash and Carry is $40 less. They will measure the connector sizes for you and give you the right fit. Most cars use standard diameters, so there'll be a kit for EP80 (4 disc converted). oh, just to clarify steel braided hoses DO NOT improve braking performance, which means do not expect to stop 10m earlier. it's more for braking "feel" and responsiveness, as it reduces expansion during pressurization. anyone interested?

We notice that there is an increasing trend of MCFer having more than 3 line in their signature. Kindly refer to the forum guideline. http://www.mycarforum.com/show.cgi?do=show...sclaimer;left=1 We would like to remind everyone to limit their signature to a maximum of 3 lines. Links are not encouraged in signatures.

Hi bros, was recommended $350 to change my brake line to a goodridge one. Is it worth the money and mine is only a family sedan, but i feel tht the brake power is a little lacking. Should i go ahead with the installation?

Hi, Am wondering if anyone of you obediently follow the traffic law by making sure filtering after the double white lines even when there is no car on the other lane? Some of the double white line stretches so long until you might face problem in filtering left or right when you need to do a turning soon. Stupid design of roads One of which is at the CTE exit out to Havelock road. I got a big problem every morning trying to filter to the left for a left turning about 30metres ahead.

Read an article on Today saying motorists especially taxi drivers flouted the red markings rulings on day one of implementation. As always, instead of solving problems now they create another problem for taxi drivers. From now, be careful when driving behind taxis, they may stop suddenly in the middle of road to pick up or alight passengers. Welcome to Singapore World Class Transport System.

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hi all what does single yellow line, double yellow line, zigzag yellow line, double zigzag yellow lines, etc, etc on the side of the road mean?? do anybody have a link to wat all these lines indicate? thanx!

Hi guys, Got my first ever driving summon. Sigh Too careless cross the double white lines. Too hurry to filter The letter mentioned 4 demerit points. Anyone know whether penalty charges involved? How much?

Was cleaning my sunny engine and I notice the aircon pipe was fix over the right side of the engine block. As there is a lot of condensation on it, it wasn't insulated. Was thinking should I insulate it so that the air con fiuld inside wouldn't be heated up so much by the heat from the engine. Had anyone done it? What sort of insulating materials should I use, was thinking along the line of those use to insulate aircon pipes in houses but don't know can they stand the heat from the engine. Saw some heat shielding tapes at Autobacs that are metalic on one side but 1 coil cost around $100. That seems quite ex for such a small project.