Esplanade Singapore

[vikasmg]

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The first two images taken a few hours ago.   A bit of incidental trivia: the yellow barricades visible in the second image are being installed to fence and screen off the Singapore F1 track.  An annual intrusion into the downtown civic centre.

 

The first two images with an M10 and Summarise 90mm.  The last image was taken five years ago on a Panasonic GM1

 

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[abrewer]

Singapore F1 track.  An annual intrusion into the downtown civic centre.

 

Your pictures are cool, but this quote caught my eye.

 

It's not the first time I've heard such objections, and I've seen races cancelled by uninformed and hostile citizens. In the most recent and ridiculous instance (Boston) the effect of noise on the "cats" in the neighborhood was cited as cause to cancel an IndyCar race.

 

In reality an F1 event is an exhibit of a city's vitality, its attractiveness to act as host to a world-class sporting event and an economic driver that brings people into the center city.When Indianapolis used to host the USGP it was estimated to bring an additional 100 million USD into the city's coffers. 

 

Is three or four days of civic-mindedness too much to ask of the citizens of Singapore?

[vikasmg]

Your pictures are cool, but this quote caught my eye.

 

It's not the first time I've heard such objections, and I've seen races cancelled by uninformed and hostile citizens. In the most recent and ridiculous instance (Boston) the effect of noise on the "cats" in the neighborhood was cited as cause to cancel an IndyCar race.

 

In reality an F1 event is an exhibit of a city's vitality, its attractiveness to act as host to a world-class sporting event and an economic driver that brings people into the center city.When Indianapolis used to host the USGP it was estimated to bring an additional 100 million USD into the city's coffers. 

 

Is three or four days of civic-mindedness too much to ask of the citizens of Singapore?

 

I have yet to see a cost-benefit analysis to demonstrate that it's with it - even if you put an intangible value on it being an >>economic driver that brings people into the center city<<.  To be honest, I don't really mind it.  My office building (Marina Square) is actually surrounded on all four sides by one part of the F1 track so we get spacial car passes to drive in to the parking (not to watch the race, though you can see it from the roof).  After the first year of chaos, having used out the right approach route, I find it's actually easier to get in than on a normal day with normal traffic.  Also most years I mange to be away travelling but can't make it this time.

 

One year I was driving from Vail to Aspen Colorado through incredibly beautiful back roads in the rockies.  I reaching Aspen I was amused at a bar to find people glued to the TV watching the F1 race in Singapore!

Edited September 7, 2018 by vikasmg