Comments on: The New Kallang Sports Hub – To Be or Not to Be (Built)

By: fdsfdsf

fdsfdsf — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:07:09 +0000

people should not be deceived into paying for ridiculous prices for flat in god-forsaken undeveloped areas like punggol/lakeside/sembawang thinking that these places will be developed into the so-called hubs which the pap promises to develop into. pap has been losing so much of singaporeans money that there is no money left to develop important infrastructure for singapore to survive. some town councils are in the red already. ever wondered why flat upgrading works can be in progress for more than 1 year? aren’t you people afraid that pap could be involved in slipshod construction just to cut costs? remember the nicoll highway collapse?

By: sfkong

sfkong — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:44:51 +0000

This milliondollar ministar is talking crap!
We all know that for everday the project is delayed,
the cost will go up,due to higher wages,higher materials
costs etc.Just think of the extra cost involved for the delay of THREE years! no way they can stick to the original budget.Taxpayers will be paying more.Take care of taxpayers every cent,my BIG foot!

By: Time for Change

Time for Change — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:33:21 +0000

Thanks Damon. Great article. I hadn’t given this much thought. Now it appears there’s more to it than meets the eyes. Hopefully there will be more pressure from Singaporeans for them to disclose the truth.

By: andsmith

andsmith — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:03:50 +0000

because SEA is not as glam as F1. why waste money on kampong sport?

By: ChaoCheeseBuy

ChaoCheeseBuy — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:31:54 +0000

The delay is due to strategic differents between the government and the consortium. There is enough public interest but not enough for the government to set a deadline on the consortium. This is an honest mistake.

Do we need to pay minister million of dollars to screw up projects without any accountability? *PUI*

By: Stadium@kallang

Stadium@kallang — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:09:10 +0000

…glad that the current stadium is not pulled down. It is still very functionable. Not point having a new stadium where the seating capacity will be lesser than the current one. It is like upgrading from a HDB flat to a private condo, but with a smaller living area that cost a lot more. In fact, you just need some modification to the current stadium and you should have a world-class stadium also, and saving hundreds of millions dollars.

By: Alan Wong

Alan Wong — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:06:14 +0000

If the consortium had not secured committed financing for the project, how can they be awarded the PPP project by the Tender Board in the first place ?

Does it mean to say that the Tender Board Committee appointed by our Govt had decided to award the project to the Consortium with their “eyes wide closed” ?

Now that it has been delayed beyond redemption, are they going to let the Consortium go scot-free without imposing any penalties ? Would it fair to the other consortiums which have put in much effort and expense to bid for the same project ?

Will the Draggage consortium be allowed to wrap up their project and just say bye-bye ?