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1. How to save $1000 a year for the rest
of your life?
NEL TO HARBOURFRONT Train door no.
17 Punggol n found on station
16 Sengkang 10 name sign
15 Buangkok 16
14 Hougang 16
13 Kovan 17
12 Serangoon 10
11 Woodleigh 17
10 Potong pasir 17
9 Boon keng 18
8 Farrer park 17
7 Little India 8
6 Dhoby ghaut 16 8
5 Clarke quay 14 11w
4 Chinatown 6
3 Outram park 19
1 Harbourfront n

2. How to save $1000 a year for the rest
of your life?
How to save 40 hrs of your life a year?
Prevent inconsistency in train design in future stations
NEL – To Harbourfront
20
18
Train door
16 no.
14 (shortest
12 route from
10 train to
8
escalator,
6
exit or
4
2
shopping
0 mall)

3. How to save $1000 a year for the rest
of your life?
Benefit To individual readers:
We all know time is money.
If you commute by train at least 18 times a week, this idea
would save you 3 mins per trip leading to a time savings of 18 * 3
* 52 weeks in a year = 2808 mins or 46.8 hours per commuter.
If the salary of middle management is $5000 a month( 50
working hours * 4 weeks = 200 working hours)
46.8 hours of your salary = $1,170.00
Imagine how would you feel if i give you $1,170 a year for the
rest of your life? Would you take it?

4. How to save $1000 a year for the rest
of your life?
Even If you drive a fancy car and find no use for this
idea, i am sure your
children, grandchildren, friends, family, relatives, acquaint
ance would take train some point in their life. Would you
like to give $1000 a year to each of your loved ones for
the rest of their lives?
Through this idea, you would at the very
least notice, which train door to board at the station
near your home, in order to alight nearest to the
escalator for the quickest journey to your work place.

5. How to save $1000 a year for the rest
of your life?
You could take this idea and sell to soon to be built/designed/revamped train
stations projects and Transport Authorities in other countries and make
positive impression at the interview to secure a job, bring benefits to the
communities of developing countries or simply gain satisfaction of helping
another human being.
How to use these reference pictures:
1. The numbers on the rightmost column indicate the train door no. that is
located above the train door on the "station name sign".
2. Download the images to your phone; using android app "Photo Folder
(purchased from Samsung app store)" i could create short cuts to the pictures
and placed on my phone's home screen for easy accesss.

6. How to save $1000 a year for the rest
of your life?
3. Refering to Northeast line pic: If you are currently at
Sengkang Station (home) and need to travel to Clarke
Quay station (work), open picture "To Harbourfront"
(purple) and search for the row with the name "Clarke
Quay". Beside the name, there are two numbers: "11"
for the train door nearest to escalator to go to Central
Shopping mall and "14w" indicates train door no. "14"
open nearest to escalator towards the exit nearest to
my workplace.

7. How to save $1000 a year for the rest
of your life?
Lessons Learnt to Land Transport Authority:
The picture charts indicates the lack of planning and
inconsistency in the design of the station around high traffic
locations, e.g. suntec city, national stadium, and shopping malls.
How many engineers, management, office staff have noted this
and kept quiet? How many other did not know this?

8. How to save $1000 a year for the rest
of your life?
Imagine this:
The same train door no. open at the escalator nearest to the station exit
towards the location of highest traffic flow for each and every station. You do
not even need these reference pictures to know which train door to board.
(CEO, senior/upper management and/or important & powerful decision
makers of Big corporations drive big fancy car: success of this idea is low as
they probably would not care. Further action may lead to opening a can of
worms which may lead to reduction in their job security
and BONUSES ?)

9. How to save $1000 a year for the rest
of your life?
If the rich and powerful, ignore this idea, this shows
what their true core value as a person are, even though
their company vision says otherwise.
Would Media spread/publish this idea? If they are
afraid of offending the powerful, are they really true to
their spirit of journalism and freedom of speech?

10. How to save $1000 a year for the rest
of your life?
Action to take now:
1. The pictures are a workaround to current station design. Build a mini sign
of the train door layout to face incoming passenger after they enter the
station gates (tap card) to know which direction to move towards the train
door for the next station.
2. Have the train door no. to face the same direction for both train direction.
What is the reason for changing the train door no. if the train moves the
opposite direction? In a medical emergency, the train door no. irregardless of
the train direction would only serve as a reference indicator. Thus for
simplicity sake, have the train door no. on opposite train directions be the
same no.

11. How to save $1000 a year for the rest
of your life?
3. Noted for some station, the escalator coming down
from the platform to the passenger service is further
away than the stairs coming down from the same
platform. Why is that so? Why not have two escalators
coming down from the platform as per other station
design?
4. Incorporate this insight into future/upcoming train
station designs.
5. Share this insight with transport authorities of other
countries.

12. How to save $1000 a year for the rest
of your life?
I dedicate this idea FREE (though I accept
donations) to the billions of train commuters and
the many more unborn commuters of the world.
You can download all the data, excel sheet, and
powerpoint from
here: https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B6w9JX6n
hYAQdU1QNVpHamplWUE/edit
Happy commuting.

13. NEL TO PUNGGOL
1 Harbourfront n
3 Outram park 6
4 Chinatown 20
5 Clarke quay 11 14w
6 Dhoby ghaut 17 9
7 Little India 16
8 Farrer park 8
9 Boon keng 8
10 Potong pasir 8
11 Woodleigh 8
12 Serangoon 15
13 Kovan 8
14 Hougang 8
15 Buangkok 9
16 Sengkang 18
17 Punggol n

14. How to save 40 hrs of your life a year?
Prevent inconsistency in train design in future stations
NEL – To Punggol
Tra
no
(sh
rou
fro
to
esc
exi
sho
ma

15. EWL TO JOO KOON
1 Pasir ris n
2 Tampines 18
3 Simei 7
4 Tanah merah 7
5 Bedok 7
6 Kembangan 22
7 Eunos 17
8 Paya lebar 1
9 Aljunied 7
10 Kallang 7
11 Lavender 8
12 Bugis 16
13 City hall 9 12 6pr 16pr
14 Raffles place 11 14 5pr 20pr
15 Tanjong pagar 22
16 Outram park 18
17 Tiong bahru 15
18 Redhill 11
19 Queenstown 11
20 Commonwealth 14
21 Buona vista 11 20cl
22 Dover 19
23 Clementi 14
24 Jurong east 17
25 Chinese garden 6
26 Lakeside 6
27 Boon Lay 5
28 Pioneer 9
29 Joo koon n

16. How to save 40 hrs of your life a year?
Prevent inconsistency in train design in future stations
EWL - To Joo Koon
Train do
no.
(shortes
route fro
train to
escalato
xit or
shoppin
mall)

17. EWL TO PASIR RIS
29 Joo koon n
28 Pioneer 17
27 Boon Lay 20 8
26 Lakeside 19
25 Chinese garden 19
24 Jurong east 8
23 Clementi 11
22 Dover 6
21 Buona vista 14 5cl
20 Commonwealth 11
19 Queenstown 14
18 Redhill 14
17 Tiong bahru 10
16 Outram park 18
15 Tanjong pagar 20 3
14 Raffles place 20 5 16jk 9jk
13 City hall 21 8 16jk 13jk
12 Bugis 9
11 Lavender 17
10 Kallang 18
9 Aljunied 18
8 Paya lebar 24
7 Eunos 7
6 Kembangan 3
5 Bedok 18
4 Tanah merah 7
3 Simei 18
2 Tampines 7
1 Pasir ris n

18. How to save 40 hrs of your life a year?
Prevent inconsistency in train design in future stations
EWL – To Pasir Ris
Train do
(shortes
from tra
escalato
or shop
mall)

19. TO CHANGI <- TO CHANGI <-
CGL TANAH MERAH (PR) CGL TANAH MERAH (JK)
EW4 Tanah merah n EW4 Tanah merah n
CG1 Expo 21 CG1 Expo 4
CG2 Changi n CG2 Changi n
TO TANAH MERAH
CGL <- CHANGI
CG2 Changi n
CG1 Expo 20
EW4 Tanah merah n

20. NSL TO JURONG EAST
27 Marina bay na n
26 Raffles place 6 19 9jk 16jk
25 City hall 13 16 9pr 19pr
24 Dhoby ghaut 18 7nel
23 Somerset 8
22 Orchard 5 18
21 Newton 17
20 Novena 11
19 Toa payoh 19 5
18 Braddell 17
17 Bishan 16 17cl
16 Ang mo kio 8
15 Yio chu kang 7
14 Khatib 19
13 Yishun 8
11 Sembawang 18
10 Admiralty 18
9 Woodlands 18
8 Marsiling 7
7 Kranji 18
5 Yew tee 18
4 Choa chu kang 7 5lrt
3 Bukit gombak 19
2 Bukit batok 8
1 Jurong east na n

21. How to save 40 hrs of your life a year?
Prevent inconsistency in train design in future stations
NSL – To Jurong East
Train door
(shortest ro
from train
escalator, e
shopping m

22. NSL TO MARINA BAY
1 Jurong east na n
2 Bukit batok 17
3 Bukit gombak 6
4 Choa chu kang 18 20lrt
5 Yew tee 7
7 Kranji 18
8 Marsiling 18
9 Woodlands 7
10 Admiralty 7
11 Sembawang 7
13 Yishun 6
14 Khatib 6
15 Yio chu kang 18
16 Ang mo kio 17
17 Bishan 16 22cl
18 Braddell 8
19 Toa payoh 5 20
20 Novena 14
21 Newton 8
22 Orchard 7
23 Somerset 17
24 Dhoby ghaut 8 18nel
25 City hall 5 16 9jk 12jk
26 Raffles place 10 15 5pr 20pr
27 Marina bay na n

23. How to save 40 hrs of your life a year?
Prevent inconsistency in train design in future stations
NSL – To Marina Bay
Tra
no.
(sh
rou
tra
esc
exi
sho
ma

24. CCL TO HARBOURFRONT
1 Dhoby ghaut n
2 Bras basah 9
3 Esplanade 2
4 Promenade 2stc 11mw
5 Nicoll highway 7
6 Stadium 11
7 Mountbatten 8
8 Dakota 7 5
9 Paya lebar 3ew 10
10 Macpherson 7 6
11 Tai seng 7
12 Bartley 6
13 Serangoon 12
14 Lorong chuan 6
15 Bishan 1
16 Marymount 7
17 Caldecott 7
19 Botanic gardens 5
20 Farrer road 9
21 Holland village 8
22 Buona vista 8 5
23 One-north 5
24 Kent ridge 5
25 Haw par villa 5
26 Pasir panjang 7
27 Labrador park 5
28 Telok blangah 6
29 Harbourfront n

25. How to save 40 hrs of your life a year?
Prevent inconsistency in train design in future stations
CCL – To Harbourfront
Train doo
(shortest
from trai
escalator
or shopp
mall)

26. CCL TO DHOBY GHAUT
29 Harbourfront n
28 Telok blangah 7
27 Labrador park 8
26 Pasir panjang 6
25 Haw par villa 8
24 Kent ridge 8
23 One-north 8
22 Buona vista 8 5
21 Holland village 5
20 Farrer road 4
19 Botanic gardens 8
17 Caldecott 6
16 Marymount 6
15 Bishan 12
14 Lorong chuan 7
13 Serangoon 1
12 Bartley 7
11 Tai seng 7
10 Macpherson 5 7
9 Paya lebar 3 10ew
8 Dakota 7
7 Mountbatten 5
6 Stadium 2
5 Nicoll highway 6
4 Promenade 3mw 10stc
3 Esplanade 11
2 Bras basah 3
1 Dhoby ghaut n

27. How to save 40 hrs of your life a year?
Prevent inconsistency in train design in future stations
CCL – To Dhoby Ghaut
Train door no.
(shortest rout
from train to
escalator, exit
or shopping
mall)

28. MARINA BAY <- PROMENADE <-
CCL PROMENADE CCL MARINA BAY
4 Promenade n 2 Marina bay n
1 Bayfront 3 121 Bayfront 1 7
2 Marina bay n 4 Promenade n