MRT/LRT PICTURES

[Seloloving]

OneMap actually had the weirdest anomaly out of the three. They placed a Bukit Timah Road perpendicular to the Downtown Line station box, which is not present in the rest and thus not reflected on my map. :P

[circleline4]

Originally Posted by Seloloving

Due to Bukit Timah Road and Newton Circus, I delayed this map until I finally found the urge to complete it as I wished to embark on my next SVG project.

This map is probably riddled with mistakes as OneMap, Streets Directory and Google Maps all displayed different road alignments and buildings which exists on one but not the other.

I normally just ignore the mistakes on the maps you make, but I couldn't a close an eye for Newton, the area where I'm going through my 9th year of education at.

I'll start from the top left corner. The naming of the buildings are all wrong. Portofino's actual location is where you marked Rising Suites on your map, and Rising Suite's actual location is where The Hemitage is (and so on). The building you marked as Portofino is an apartment U/C named Alpine Residences. Sarkies Court has been demolished. The site is where the future Liberté apartment stands.

Moving down, that 'Bukit Timah Road' you thought was a mistake on onemap actually exists. It used to be a wavy road that came up around 2007/8 if I'm not wrong to provide access to Prudential@Scotts during construction and for personal access afterwards. To make way for DTL2, the road was then pushed back to the corner of the site perpendicular to the main road and Alliance Francaise De Singapour. I don't know if this is cause of space issue, but Prudential@Scotts's length should be much longer than drawn on your map. Also, there's no space in Scotts HighPark's naming.

Next, the new Exit C at Newton would be parallel to the road, not perpendicular. You left out the bus stop and taxi stand that will be integrated with the new exit too. If I'm not wrong, the bus stop outside Newton One would be also designated in the map. The width of the DTL box is too thin either.

The NSL should be running directly under both Newton and Scotts Road, and not curving away. I have some issues with the road alignment too. The actual flyover slip roads run side by side with the bridge and not leave those triangular gaping holes. If I remember correctly, onemap has a pretty accurate layout of the roads there. Other than that, good effort in the map.

[Seloloving]

I see. Thanks for the updates! With many maps to reference to, things kinda get confusing.

Actually, the massive intersection at Newton Circus, I copied it from LTA, has the road alignments changed or is it a mistake on LTA's part?

The DTL box is deliberately slanted and made thin to avoid overlapping the road next to it. I have done so for the Little India, Bugis, Chinatown, Tampines and MacPherson maps as well. Artistic license.

I shall be re-releasing rectified versions of all my maps in the near future.

[sandstorm6299]

And just to unnecessarily nitpick, it is: Alliance Française de Singapour. And also, wasn't there plans to get rid of Newton Circus altogether?

[Seloloving]

Well, they are still considering it. LTA said roundabouts are preferable for as they alleviate traffic conditions while the drivers disagree.

No plans have been set in motion though, and I view it highly unlikely they will embark on another road project with DTL there.

As for the name - copied from LTA. The map must have been really old.

[sandstorm6299]

It's hard to imagine how they'd have a 6-way intersection there... as for the French name, it's probably LTA being lazy. Capitalising the d in de is the same as capitalising the o in of eg Embassy Of Singapore In Australia. Irks me to no end and personal OCD moment.

[mrtfreak]

By the way, Scotts Rd is only south of Newton Circus. And its Scotts, not Scott.

[Seloloving]

Thanks for the heads up.

[Seloloving]

link removed - more rectifications needed.

[Seloloving]

Woah, triple post, I apologize. Presenting Bukit Panjang MRT Station. This map underwent a ton of changes.

[circleline4]

You might want to look up the following maps for comparism. Your bus stop and taxi stand positioning are wrong, probably cause you're squeezing all the logos into 1 consecutive exit. In case you aren't aware, a flyover would go up directly above the station box after the structure is completed and backfilled. Junctions such as Petir/Upper Bt will cease to exist. Also, I never fancy how the roads get cut off within the station boxes. I guess you weren't trying to be official like LTA, are you?

[Seloloving]

What do you mean cutoff? The road continues to lead into the station box, albeit a little faint. :P

As for flyovers and junctions, LTA never did bother to depict the viaducts but rendered them in 2D instead. See Newton and the more recent Botanic Gardens.

[circleline4]

Oh. Is that so? I have greater difficulties seeing the road in contrast to the BNV one LTA printed.

Originally Posted by Seloloving

As for flyovers and junctions, LTA never did bother to depict the viaducts but rendered them in 2D instead. See Newton and the more recent Botanic Gardens.

Was wanting to say the same thing to you. Precisely cause LTA depicted viaducts/underpasses as 2D (like Newton and BTN), there is a distinct separation between the infrastructure and the slip roads. At least 3 roads should be drawn, not the current 1 seen in your map.

I guess all that's needed to be said is out, whether you want to be accurate and amend the mistakes is a separate issue, which is why I question whether you're doing these maps to make it look official like LTA's, cause officiality is what I'm comparing to point out your mistakes.

[Seloloving]

Yep, it appears that Inkscape did not render the transparency well enough during the conversion to PNG. Here's the SVG file without the station.

As for the roads, they will be amended, while I don't agree that three roads are needed - due to LTA's habit of merging two roads into one, I will try to fit it in. Thanks. I plan to do Buona Vista and Bishan soon, having obtained the photos myself yesterday.

In any case, I used onemap for Bukit Panjang, the official one at Bukit Panjang LRT sucked.

[AzMean]

Just want to point out that The Petir/Bkt Timah juntion has no straight road. just 2 slip roads: One leading into Petir and one leading out into Bukit Timah.

[deskoh91]

I can see the roads beneath the station, cut him some slack. As for the errors noted its a good idea to correct them now that selo knows about it

[Seloloving]

Thanks deskoh91. I am working on it.

Originally Posted by AzMean

Just want to point out that The Petir/Bkt Timah juntion has no straight road. just 2 slip roads: One leading into Petir and one leading out into Bukit Timah.

Oops, thanks, it seems I followed LTA's version during a few sleepy moments.

[mrtfreak]

I saw this today on those LG phone look-alikes at Somerset station (among others). Know this is old news, but haven't seen a photo of this anywhere else. I like what they are doing on it so far.


http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...0328-00140.jpg

The one at Bugis showed similar timings, occasionally alternating to show "This is a test".

[deskoh91]

They are fitting those screens along platforms as well (such as Boon Lay) so it is definitely going to be a welcome complement to the RATIS. Good to know they are finally extending timings display beyond the one at City Hall.

[mrtfreak]

Next step would be to put these in surrounding buildings like malls and such. If KL's KTM Komuter could do it at MidValley Mega Mall, why not here?