Singapore Flyers

On August 27, 2007 · 30 Comments · In Laws of our land, Living

I read in the Sun­day Times that tick­ets for a ride on the yet to be com­pleted Sin­ga­pore Flyer… ok, let me rephrase that, because that sounds like you can ride on an incom­plete Sin­ga­pore Flyer, and your guide for the day might say some­thing like,


“Sorry sir, as you can see, the Sin­ga­pore Flyer is yet to be com­plete, so today you will only go a semi-circle”.

“If you come back tomor­row and go again, that makes a full circle”.

So, I read in the Sun­day Times that tick­ets for a ride on the Sin­ga­pore Flyer, when it is com­plete, have been sold out for the first three months of its sched­uled oper­a­tions. Fully booked.

Yes! What? How can?

You’d think that being the lean and effi­cient city that we are, we’d have fore­seen the prob­lem and taken steps to deal with it.

But not to worry. We now know that if we didn’t have the ben­e­fit of fore­sight to antic­i­pate con­ges­tion, we always have the LTA method of putting up more and more gantries to fix the problem.

So, I pro­pose that the Sin­ga­pore Flyer project be taken over by the LTA so that they can build two or three more Sin­ga­pore Fly­ers to deal with the problem:

Singapore Flyer
Orig­i­nal photo by red­polka­dot

Singapore Flyers
Orig­i­nal photo by mat­t­lo­gelin

There, the BERP Method of Deal­ing with Con­ges­tion. Great thing is, if it doesn’t work after a while, all you need to do is build some more.

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  • http://9.liquidblade.com Ah9

    wah more fly­ers, si beh cle­ber leh.

  • http://9.liquidblade.com Ah9

    wah more fly­ers, si beh cle­ber leh.

  • http://lancerlord.blogspot.com lancer­lord

    Sweez! Like dat tick­ets can be cheap cheap or not? $1 for adults, $0.50 for child? :)

  • http://lancerlord.blogspot.com lancer­lord

    Sweez! Like dat tick­ets can be cheap cheap or not? $1 for adults, $0.50 for child? :)

  • http://www.peranakandude.com Kian

    I still say the Flyer is built on the wrong site lah… from that angle, what do you want to see? Guests at Ritz Carl­ton and the Ori­en­tal moon­ing themselves??

  • http://www.peranakandude.com Kian

    I still say the Flyer is built on the wrong site lah… from that angle, what do you want to see? Guests at Ritz Carl­ton and the Ori­en­tal moon­ing themselves??

  • http://jaywalk.blog-city.com Jay­Walk

    Fit each car­riage cabin with a IU and get the peo­ple to insert their cash­card when they come aboard.

    There­after, install a few ERP gantrys along the path of which the flyer rotates.

    Con­firm chop stamp guar­an­tee to solve con­ges­tion one.

  • http://jaywalk.blog-city.com Jay­Walk

    Fit each car­riage cabin with a IU and get the peo­ple to insert their cash­card when they come aboard.

    There­after, install a few ERP gantrys along the path of which the flyer rotates.

    Con­firm chop stamp guar­an­tee to solve con­ges­tion one.

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  • http://www.wahlau.net Wahlau.NET

    so many at almost the same location????

  • http://www.wahlau.net Wahlau.NET

    so many at almost the same location????

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  • Mr Smith

    oh HAR HAR. that really cracked me up there. *rolls eyes* Stop try­ing to be funny, dude.

  • Mr Smith

    oh HAR HAR. that really cracked me up there. *rolls eyes* Stop try­ing to be funny, dude.

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  • http://singaporeflyeronline.blogspot.com Freddy

    Take a look at my SF blog http://singaporeflyeronline.blogspot.com, shall we comb­bine force and bar­gain for a good ticket price?

    Pls add my link to yours. Thanks/

  • http://singaporeflyeronline.blogspot.com Freddy

    Take a look at my SF blog http://singaporeflyeronline.blogspot.com, shall we comb­bine force and bar­gain for a good ticket price?

    Pls add my link to yours. Thanks/

  • Super­man

    My advice is, do not even try to take the ride at Sin­ga­pore Flyer. The wheel being booked 3 months in advanced is full of bullshit.….just mar­ket­ing gimmick.

    I went up and guess what? Only 5 per­sons. Many cap­sules were totally empty! I heard that some cap­sules are “dirty” and some staff even saw “ghosts”. I am not kid­ding. Do not take the ride espe­cially in the Chi­nese 7 month.

    Ticket price too expen­sive and the ride is really slow and no fun. Bad experience!!!

  • Super­man

    My advice is, do not even try to take the ride at Sin­ga­pore Flyer. The wheel being booked 3 months in advanced is full of bullshit.….just mar­ket­ing gimmick.

    I went up and guess what? Only 5 per­sons. Many cap­sules were totally empty! I heard that some cap­sules are “dirty” and some staff even saw “ghosts”. I am not kid­ding. Do not take the ride espe­cially in the Chi­nese 7 month.

    Ticket price too expen­sive and the ride is really slow and no fun. Bad experience!!!

  • http://miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    Yeah, I guess they should make the ride a lot faster, and have a ‘sling­shot’ option. Cat­a­pult you to Batam or some­thing. That’d be fun!

  • http://miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    Yeah, I guess they should make the ride a lot faster, and have a ‘sling­shot’ option. Cat­a­pult you to Batam or some­thing. That’d be fun!

  • Bird­Fly

    I took a ride on the Sin­ga­pore Fly in early March and guess what? Most of the cap­sules were nearly empty!

    Three month fully booked? My foot!!! I realised that this is noth­ing more than mar­ket­ing gim­mick. Sin­ga­pore Fly’s way of “jus­ti­fy­ing” S$29.50 per ride? I shall NEVER ride on that stu­pid SF again! Bull­shit and liar! Dis­hon­est company.

    After all, the Sin­ga­pore Flyer owned by Great Wheel Corp. and rev­enues gen­er­ated will be chan­neled to this Ger­man com­pany. Any ben­e­fit to Sin­ga­porean? I wonder.

    Spend­ing 30mins in that cap­sule is not only expen­sive but also feel­ing like trap­ping in a lift. No worth.

  • Bird­Fly

    I took a ride on the Sin­ga­pore Fly in early March and guess what? Most of the cap­sules were nearly empty!

    Three month fully booked? My foot!!! I realised that this is noth­ing more than mar­ket­ing gim­mick. Sin­ga­pore Fly’s way of “jus­ti­fy­ing” S$29.50 per ride? I shall NEVER ride on that stu­pid SF again! Bull­shit and liar! Dis­hon­est company.

    After all, the Sin­ga­pore Flyer owned by Great Wheel Corp. and rev­enues gen­er­ated will be chan­neled to this Ger­man com­pany. Any ben­e­fit to Sin­ga­porean? I wonder.

    Spend­ing 30mins in that cap­sule is not only expen­sive but also feel­ing like trap­ping in a lift. No worth.

  • red­noire

    stu­pid arse­holes. what they meant was theyre fully booked for pri­vate events/capsules for the three months. 29.50 too expen­sive meh? cheap­skate sin­ga­pore­ans. u dont exactly go up every­day do you. most prob once in your short lifetime

  • red­noire

    stu­pid arse­holes. what they meant was theyre fully booked for pri­vate events/capsules for the three months. 29.50 too expen­sive meh? cheap­skate sin­ga­pore­ans. u dont exactly go up every­day do you. most prob once in your short lifetime

  • MisZ An0nyM0uZ

    i dunn0..
    i’ve rid­den 0n sumthin lyke d SF b4..
    n it wuz..
    let me put it sim­ple..
    b0ring..
    but u hv 2 admit..
    u d0n’t g0 0n sumthin lyke dat everyday,rite??
    it d0esn’t kill ya 2 relax n enj0y d view..
    d0esn’t it??!

  • MisZ An0nyM0uZ

    i dunn0..
    i’ve rid­den 0n sumthin lyke d SF b4..
    n it wuz..
    let me put it sim­ple..
    b0ring..
    but u hv 2 admit..
    u d0n’t g0 0n sumthin lyke dat everyday,rite??
    it d0esn’t kill ya 2 relax n enj0y d view..
    d0esn’t it??!

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