@@mechashadow I may consider doing it maybe in the future.Unless I am able to gain up courage to show my face on youtube and have a partner to help me film that.
This was recorded in 1988. Their infrastructure at his time was at least 20 years ahead. Everything looks so modern. Even the video is decent quality. The station is bright and fresh. The only thing that's distinctly 80's here is the people's fashion. You can tell by what people were wearing. But their surroundings is modern.
Watching this makes me really appreciate how much the MRT system has grown. I was born in the mid 90's,i didn't realise the system was so small then. Back then we can't even go to Changi Airport on train it seems
At the initial stage, there wasn’t a North-South, East-West line yet. I could board at Orchard and alighted at Tiong Bahru station directly, no transfer required. 😊
I am genuinely impressed that even after 35 years later, the MRT fare is still kept relatively low considering the multiple inflation. For comparison, back then it costed $1.10 from Toa Payoh to Clementi (2:43), now it has only increased to $1.75. Whereas our economic chicken rice has blown up from $1.00 (gone are the days of $1 chicken rice) to at least $2.50 now. 🤑
Actually adjusted for inflation, $1.10 in 1988 would've been $2.79 in today's money (using MAS' own inflation calculator. In fact, the cost has went down and/or remained very manageable.
Have tried one $2.50 chicken rice. But don’t have to travel for it. Anyway price is before 8pm only. I do have a video uploaded on my channel. ua-cam.com/video/1MbIQ-pPeXQ/v-deo.htmlsi=m5fioa9AX2p3odTY
I ate a $2.50 chicken rice recently before. The stall does mostly night business and the price is only for before 8pm. Heard there’s one in a Tampines East coffee shop also. Maybe some food kiosks at MRT stations like Woodlands or Yishun may still have $2.50 chicken rice.
This information video is so thoroughly professional that I don’t even know where to begin and end. I think it would help making public transport more popular today if they (preferably a highly skilled manager) dressed up in a suit and explained us - in a friendly way - why we shouldn’t litter. His hint about how other passengers feel about it, is a subtle reminder about social control - somebody will notice your behaviour - without feeling threatening. The name “stored value card” is well thought out, it makes you feel that you get an advantage every time you use it.
I remember those blue stored value cards. You can travel however far you liked with the amount left at the end. I think some people tried to use the card until there's 10c left, and then you can do a long journey with just 10c!
My grandfather, while he was a project manager for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority in roughly this time period, took a visit to Singapore once to study their MRT. If we were still alive, I would show him the video, but in his final years he was also blind, so I wonder what he would make of the voice and sounds. Needless to say whatever wisdom he got from going to see the MRT he probably wasn’t able to effectively communicate to the folks running MARTA, if the state of the system today tells me anything.
Interesting how people in the 80s speak very well. Even the ministers had more eloquence in their speech. Why is it getting worse despite better education system 😂
Thank you for sharing this :) , not a train enthusiast and also not born when the MRT first opened. it was really nice to see a part of Singapore when life was "simple" and when the MRT required a tutorial
I think that was just for the underground stations like Raffles Place. I remember normal aboveground stations like Tampines etc didn't have platform screen doors until maybe the 2010s.
Sinagpore was one of the first to implement these on a high capacity rapid transit system - keeps the cold AC inside the stations and the hot, humid air out!
Not all the stations have them, just in the very busy areas. And other areas, as a non-local, i have noticed that at one point they did have the doors and have removed them at some point. Not sure if damaged and cheaper to remove, or they removed just as cost savings and used them some place else.
I won't use transit in USA cause they all want cash, or prepaid cards and crap. But when i am in singapore, i use MRT all the time, paywave is magical :) so quick, don't gotta talk to anyone, don't have to bring money. And nowadays, don't even need a card, just my phone works!
I have an old travel guide to Singapore I was given as a kid (I was a very nerdy kid who loved maps, and growing up in Australia, I was very interested in SE Asia). The MRT map in it has the coloured lines indicating which direction the trains head in - like the green line being for east-bound trains. I thought that was such an interesting design choice when I was young. I don't think any other system had used that before. I guess when you are introducing a system to a public, portraying it like that would make it easier for users.
Exactly! When in a hurry I just look up for the right colour and I know I am in the right direction, provided I know which station I was at. But now with so many lines, they changed it to one colour for both directions of that line......they don't have enough colours to cover all lines and directions and it would also be chaotic with too many colours is what they told me
Watching this made me realise the Japanese lines haven’t really changed since the 80s other than adding Suica/IC cards, assuming they were ‘modernised’ around the same time.
They have. Tokyo metro and private train lines are now connected, so you can travel ridiculous distances without changing lines. There have also been numerous new express services to regional cities which didn’t exist then. AC systems have improved markedly since the 90s, and more than a few lines have had stations completely remodelled and refurbished. Punctuality and comfort are better and noise levels are lower in Japanese trains even today.
As a tall Northern European I have learned to be deeply respectful and bow to MRT doors and vertical rail - because if I don't, I almost certainly hit my head on them! (I've also learned that there are probably slight differences in the door and rail heights between different lines, although it might be just my imagination.) A local tall enough to be wary of the door height (or rather, lack of it) like the narrator is not that a common sight. There's clearly a difference in comparison to Northern European systems like MRT; if I would run out of one completely straight, practically both feet off the floor at the same time I might have a very slight chance to hit my head.
Interesting that SG had the ' north south east west bound ' system then! Thats modeled after the UK's (or at least london's) system. i was so confused there lol as a younger person
Life sucks, as you know. We were once excited about future developments, but I've come to realize that I prefer the simplicity of older days. I wish it could be permanent.
When these NEW stations have existed before 2001 💚🚇 W13 Pioneer W14 Joo Koon W15 Gul Circle W16 Tuas Crescent W17 Tuas West Road W18 Tuas Link W7A Dover E13 Expo E14 Changi Airport. 🛫 ❤🚇 N13 Canberra N19 Sungei Kadut M2 Marina South Pier. Right?
Remember that time when Singaporeans actually spoke better english than our ministers today (i.e. Lawrence Wong) and most CNA readers who are American wannabes? 😅
but there's no point trying to have a brit/american accent when we aren't brits or americans? he only "speaks better" to you because he's not using a singaporean accent
@@sxnchou Why is your idea of good English consists of British or American accents? That was not what I was saying but rather, I was condemning some news readers on CNA with pretentious American accents.
I think that would be like the brittish posh accent, or very netural accent. Like in UK they use that style for the news and stuff. Well they used to. Now they use normal voice
in the 70 80's even 90s, people dress sense hair style and social behaviour are very standard and very forgiving and most people are helpful. You can see people not gluing their eyes on their mobile phone. 2021 onwards, so many issues happening all around the worlds. Can you count the number of wars happening now?
ah yes the old floppy transitlink cards, so straight forward and simple. Not the crap they wanna force it down people throats and got U-turn after backlash LOL
That Is the thinnest tie I have seen paired with a very wide fitting suit.
Very popular in the 80s I remember
@@jonathanya154 Well the 80s is actually one of the low points for sartorial elegance, but still better than the 70s.
@@stephenchen7491 the hippie culture's fashion is crazy unique but also horrendous to look at
It looks like a skinny necktie.
Yet he looks like he's 6'4"
Someone should remake this in 2024, but keep the 80s style in. I think it would look cool and have some nostalgia in there.
What do you mean?Do you mean by using this footage or personally filming a new 2024 footage?
New 2024 footage but keeping that 80s style, I assume.
@@mechashadow I may consider doing it maybe in the future.Unless I am able to gain up courage to show my face on youtube and have a partner to help me film that.
@@catysnow I feel that. We wanted to film a funny parody version back in school but never came to be.
@@mechashadow oh I see.I can truely know how fun acting for a graded project is.
Bro went from Toa Payoh to Toa Payoh
Nah, bro just went from Toa Payoh to Ang Mo Kio and then back
I love the old Singapore TV accent haha
yes, proper English
@@yiming99why should Chinese people speak English?
@@yiming99 The cadence of speech is weird af
Yeah Singaporeans got dumber
This was recorded in 1988. Their infrastructure at his time was at least 20 years ahead. Everything looks so modern. Even the video is decent quality. The station is bright and fresh. The only thing that's distinctly 80's here is the people's fashion. You can tell by what people were wearing. But their surroundings is modern.
haha we need this back on the TV to educate the public to wait for people to exit first
YA SIA ITS GETTING WORSE
LOL who cares? we all pay the same fair, you can't get out fast, then work harder.
@@cannonf_odder3041Mostly elderlies and foreigners
@@EZJRVCXYpeople like you I purposely push with my big fat body when exiting cos you all lanjiao want to enter the train first
@@EZJRVCXYit's faster to wait in turns.
Really looks like something right out of the back rooms
they dug it out from there 😂
Yeah
yes toa payoh station is very yellow
And still is till this very day
Watching this makes me really appreciate how much the MRT system has grown. I was born in the mid 90's,i didn't realise the system was so small then. Back then we can't even go to Changi Airport on train it seems
At the initial stage, there wasn’t a North-South, East-West line yet. I could board at Orchard and alighted at Tiong Bahru station directly, no transfer required. 😊
Changi Branch Line Shuttle Service opened on 8th February 2002
@@KatJade269correctly said
I am genuinely impressed that even after 35 years later, the MRT fare is still kept relatively low considering the multiple inflation. For comparison, back then it costed $1.10 from Toa Payoh to Clementi (2:43), now it has only increased to $1.75. Whereas our economic chicken rice has blown up from $1.00 (gone are the days of $1 chicken rice) to at least $2.50 now. 🤑
Actually adjusted for inflation, $1.10 in 1988 would've been $2.79 in today's money (using MAS' own inflation calculator.
In fact, the cost has went down and/or remained very manageable.
Pardon, kindly share where the $2.50 chicken rice stalls are? 😅
Have tried one $2.50 chicken rice. But don’t have to travel for it. Anyway price is before 8pm only. I do have a video uploaded on my channel. ua-cam.com/video/1MbIQ-pPeXQ/v-deo.htmlsi=m5fioa9AX2p3odTY
i think holland drive has a $2/$3 roasted pork rice not very sure.
I ate a $2.50 chicken rice recently before. The stall does mostly night business and the price is only for before 8pm.
Heard there’s one in a Tampines East coffee shop also.
Maybe some food kiosks at MRT stations like Woodlands or Yishun may still have $2.50 chicken rice.
This information video is so thoroughly professional that I don’t even know where to begin and end. I think it would help making public transport more popular today if they (preferably a highly skilled manager) dressed up in a suit and explained us - in a friendly way - why we shouldn’t litter.
His hint about how other passengers feel about it, is a subtle reminder about social control - somebody will notice your behaviour - without feeling threatening.
The name “stored value card” is well thought out, it makes you feel that you get an advantage every time you use it.
I remember those blue stored value cards. You can travel however far you liked with the amount left at the end. I think some people tried to use the card until there's 10c left, and then you can do a long journey with just 10c!
that is one tiny tie he's wearing.
so how he remove it
Toa Payoh MRT station still looks the same 😂
The First MRT ride opening’s ceremony was Mr Ong Teng Cheong in 7th November, 1987 at Toa Payoh MRT station.
I am still wondering how a 1990 Crimewatch episode haven't come out yet,but this video does.
Love the shoulder pads!
The English is world-class! 👍👍
it is like his native language or something O.o
His mandarin is very good too. He has another video in mandarin.
@@MoonLiteNite it is
My grandfather, while he was a project manager for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority in roughly this time period, took a visit to Singapore once to study their MRT.
If we were still alive, I would show him the video, but in his final years he was also blind, so I wonder what he would make of the voice and sounds.
Needless to say whatever wisdom he got from going to see the MRT he probably wasn’t able to effectively communicate to the folks running MARTA, if the state of the system today tells me anything.
Even the way or the style the instructions were made in the 80s are still implemented in 2024 in other items in Singapore. Kudos 👍🏻
Interesting how people in the 80s speak very well. Even the ministers had more eloquence in their speech. Why is it getting worse despite better education system 😂
Because worse is better for the "teachers". This goes for many things, in many 'countries' around the world...
The legendary Samuel Chong!
His voice is so iconic!
i searched for him and wow, im surprised he speaks very fluent chinese nowadays.
@@86soulx He also speak very well in Chinese version. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
ua-cam.com/video/cvC6p_kuvd0/v-deo.htmlsi=5Hk4zVNpwSIUEBiX
Yes, I was trying to recall his name.
@@86soulxYes. Bilingual.
Toa Payoh hits different all those years ago
I rmb that old gantry closing force is fast and strong lol. Kena whacked by it few times
Thanks. Finally I now know how to use the MRT.
Am I the only one who’s laughing at him purposely bending the ticket into half??? And Toa Payoh station still looks the same today in 2024!!
Thank you for sharing this :) , not a train enthusiast and also not born when the MRT first opened. it was really nice to see a part of Singapore when life was "simple" and when the MRT required a tutorial
5:26 & 9:23 Back then when I was a kid I was really scared of those "killer" gates.
😄 same.... I'm here in the comments section to see if anyone else shares the same thoughts after watching the ticket gate closing
Exactly. . Painful af
lol I remember the sound of gate. Errrr bang go in
Good thing they made it slower and safer
What I’m really surprised about is the fact there are platform screen doors in the 80s. That’s actually very shocking from a western perspective.
I think that was just for the underground stations like Raffles Place. I remember normal aboveground stations like Tampines etc didn't have platform screen doors until maybe the 2010s.
Sinagpore was one of the first to implement these on a high capacity rapid transit system - keeps the cold AC inside the stations and the hot, humid air out!
Still remember in early 2000s and early 2010s there were no barriers for above ground platforms prob they got scared people will fall onto the tracks
@@aquaticaries7725
Actually quite true. Imagine when the platform is very crowded and someone accidentally pushed someone onto the track…
Not all the stations have them, just in the very busy areas. And other areas, as a non-local, i have noticed that at one point they did have the doors and have removed them at some point. Not sure if damaged and cheaper to remove, or they removed just as cost savings and used them some place else.
2:35
Wait till they hear of this thing called SIMPLYGO
they will crawl out of their grave and haunt the person who invented SIMPLYGO
I won't use transit in USA cause they all want cash, or prepaid cards and crap.
But when i am in singapore, i use MRT all the time, paywave is magical :) so quick, don't gotta talk to anyone, don't have to bring money. And nowadays, don't even need a card, just my phone works!
Very interesting window into the past. Thanks for uploading.
Wow didn't know we had yellow and blue lines in the 1980s
Yellow was for northbound service and blue was for westbound service. It was like this until 2001.
They run out of colour choice after too many lines went operational…
"Once you enter the station, you will notice how clean and modern MRT facilities are...."
Me: Looks at the MRT toilets
I have an old travel guide to Singapore I was given as a kid (I was a very nerdy kid who loved maps, and growing up in Australia, I was very interested in SE Asia). The MRT map in it has the coloured lines indicating which direction the trains head in - like the green line being for east-bound trains. I thought that was such an interesting design choice when I was young. I don't think any other system had used that before. I guess when you are introducing a system to a public, portraying it like that would make it easier for users.
Exactly! When in a hurry I just look up for the right colour and I know I am in the right direction, provided I know which station I was at. But now with so many lines, they changed it to one colour for both directions of that line......they don't have enough colours to cover all lines and directions and it would also be chaotic with too many colours is what they told me
Do you have one on the woodlands extension?
Sydney still has these same gates but with an updated module for contactless payments
The Pioneers worked realy hard..
City hall station still looking similar to this
Man, thanks for archiving history!
Legacy of Ong Teng Cheong. Meanwhile, no one cares about KFC.
People care about his son
they are 60 years old now
Watching this made me realise the Japanese lines haven’t really changed since the 80s other than adding Suica/IC cards, assuming they were ‘modernised’ around the same time.
They have. Tokyo metro and private train lines are now connected, so you can travel ridiculous distances without changing lines.
There have also been numerous new express services to regional cities which didn’t exist then.
AC systems have improved markedly since the 90s, and more than a few lines have had stations completely remodelled and refurbished.
Punctuality and comfort are better and noise levels are lower in Japanese trains even today.
Yes the 1st MRT train was from Japan.
Excellent video
It's Billy Bong!
Nope, it's Samuel Chong 张永权. 😂😂😂
Dang. How tall is he.
6ft 183cm.
No. Is 190cm
As a tall Northern European I have learned to be deeply respectful and bow to MRT doors and vertical rail - because if I don't, I almost certainly hit my head on them! (I've also learned that there are probably slight differences in the door and rail heights between different lines, although it might be just my imagination.) A local tall enough to be wary of the door height (or rather, lack of it) like the narrator is not that a common sight.
There's clearly a difference in comparison to Northern European systems like MRT; if I would run out of one completely straight, practically both feet off the floor at the same time I might have a very slight chance to hit my head.
He is definitely at least 1.9m, as my friend who is 1.85m doesn’t look as tall as he does in the video.
Is that Billy bong
Toa Payoh to Dhoby Ghaut went from $0.70 to $1.30. Not too bad
It maybe increased each and every year😂
I take the mrt for free 😂
Now it is $1.09 - $2.50.
Those were the days using this type of transit cards😂
it take me back to 80s
I wish my country could be as organized :((((
I see which nation you’re from
Same here in Philippines
Where are you from?
MRT is becoming the standard in city building nowadays
haiz in the 80s, remaining value can be displayed while in 2024, it can no longer display and pple are finding excuses...
Samuel Chong?
Yes
Wait that's the same guy from the Just Follow Law movie! The funny boss.
Those gates knocked the wind outta me, good times
Good accent, English,clear, steady
Great way to get used to standard English for Singaporeans
Hes back🎉🎉
Thanks Lee Kwan Yew
And the late Mr Ong Teng Cheong there wouldn’t be MRT system if not for him
@@Whimsicaltalesx thanks mr ong, them all synergy
In the past, there was no MRT Singapore payment via Ez Link cards or bank cards
omg this is so fascinating
Interesting that SG had the ' north south east west bound ' system then! Thats modeled after the UK's (or at least london's) system. i was so confused there lol as a younger person
This will no longer make sense. Use the line system.
I was just born on this year 😮
Are you uploading the other languages soon?
Chinese version is uploaded.
ua-cam.com/video/cvC6p_kuvd0/v-deo.htmlsi=M3_jIa33eCgvWQf2
6:34 people very eager to get on lol
see how advanced is Singapore and its Citizens even in 1988? I can ever see some of them already wearing Bluetooth earbuds.
Life sucks, as you know. We were once excited about future developments, but I've come to realize that I prefer the simplicity of older days. I wish it could be permanent.
Goo'ol days
When these NEW stations have existed before 2001
💚🚇
W13 Pioneer
W14 Joo Koon
W15 Gul Circle
W16 Tuas Crescent
W17 Tuas West Road
W18 Tuas Link
W7A Dover
E13 Expo
E14 Changi Airport. 🛫
❤🚇
N13 Canberra
N19 Sungei Kadut
M2 Marina South Pier.
Right?
LoL Sungei Kadut🥺🥺🥺 is there such station along the EW or NS line, i dun think so
@user-np3tm4nk6m that's teh future infill station between Kranji and Yew Tee.
Remember that time when Singaporeans actually spoke better english than our ministers today (i.e. Lawrence Wong) and most CNA readers who are American wannabes? 😅
but there's no point trying to have a brit/american accent when we aren't brits or americans? he only "speaks better" to you because he's not using a singaporean accent
@@sxnchou Why is your idea of good English consists of British or American accents? That was not what I was saying but rather, I was condemning some news readers on CNA with pretentious American accents.
The music!!!
Seems like we don’t hv a lot of travellers back then compared to now
This is pretty cool
ah man... 80s were so awesome. One look and you know its from the 80s. @2:51 green, blue, yellow. lol.... wheres red? xD
Ohhhh, thats why theres a ticketing booth at the mrt
Even though there are no ticket
You were expecting tickets to be in paper form during then?
Now that ticket booth transform to SimplyGo ticket office.
I LOVE MRT!!!
Wow, Singaporean used to speak with this kind of English accent??
presenters lah bro until now presenters also speak more formal one
Singaporeans can speak formally if they wish. Nothing wrong with informal Singlish in a casual context.
His chinese also can speak very well in Chinese version.
ua-cam.com/video/cvC6p_kuvd0/v-deo.htmlsi=M3_jIa33eCgvWQf2
I think that would be like the brittish posh accent, or very netural accent. Like in UK they use that style for the news and stuff. Well they used to. Now they use normal voice
6:34 now elevated MRT stns have platform doors 🚇🇸🇬
THIS GUY IS CUTE AS HELL
Last time got lift? How can disabled wheelchair bound personnel ride?
nope. retrofitted after 2000.
The lift start operation back in 2005.
"There is no war in ba sing se" ahh accent
What on earth happened in Singapore back in 80s? The accent hahahahaha.
Wah..back then the fares were inexpensive 🥹🥹
1988 fishball noodles, chicken rice, fried kway teow was $1.50. coffee was 50c
The fares adjusted for inflation actually went down tbh
in the 70 80's even 90s, people dress sense hair style and social behaviour are very standard and very forgiving and most people are helpful. You can see people not gluing their eyes on their mobile phone. 2021 onwards, so many issues happening all around the worlds. Can you count the number of wars happening now?
why this is on my recommendation
Anyone knows the name of the presenter?
Who's the presenter in the video guide?
His name is Samuel Zhang / Zhang yong Quan 张永全
Omg its Billy Bong
Isn’t that Samuel Chong?
Yes
He speaks very well. ❤ Very presentable!
@i-vernsimphonique2458 He also appeared on security video for MRT too.
@@i-vernsimphonique2458
And he is equally well in mandarin.
Yes, and his chinese also speak very well in Chinese version.
ua-cam.com/video/cvC6p_kuvd0/v-deo.htmlsi=M3_jIa33eCgvWQf2
Katong Park
Please mind the platform gap
Next stop NOO-VEEE--NAAAHHHH
Crazy how the stations look very much the same. The biggest difference is the way people dress
Telephone number was still 7 digit.
张永权 1958, 66 years old in 2024
And this one is free, very Singaporean😂
Who remembers scraping your forehead with those tickets?
Now 2024 Singapore 🇸🇬 changes its policy a lot & a lot 😅
at that time, chewing gum wasn't banned yet 🤭🤭🤭
ah yes the old floppy transitlink cards, so straight forward and simple. Not the crap they wanna force it down people throats and got U-turn after backlash LOL
For real bro
My country's public transportation at the same year: ☠️☠️🗿🗿
Is it just me or does he resembles akira toriyama 😂
English used to be accurate. When did singlish started?
MRT analog horror when??1?11?
I was born 😊😊😊