MRTC 1988 - Your Guide To Travelling On The MRT (English)

[@thihal123]

That Is the thinnest tie I have seen paired with a very wide fitting suit.

[@jonathanya154]

Very popular in the 80s I remember

[@stephenchen7491]

@@jonathanya154 Well the 80s is actually one of the low points for sartorial elegance, but still better than the 70s.

[@mehmehmehmehmehmehmeh]

@@stephenchen7491 the hippie culture's fashion is crazy unique but also horrendous to look at

[@johnnyquest6894]

It looks like a skinny necktie.

[@HuwHan]

Yet he looks like he's 6'4"

[@JaceTan-90]

Someone should remake this in 2024, but keep the 80s style in. I think it would look cool and have some nostalgia in there.

[@catysnow]

What do you mean?Do you mean by using this footage or personally filming a new 2024 footage?

[@mechashadow]

New 2024 footage but keeping that 80s style, I assume.

[@catysnow]

@@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.

[@mechashadow]

@@catysnow I feel that. We wanted to film a funny parody version back in school but never came to be.

[@catysnow]

@@mechashadow oh I see.I can truely know how fun acting for a graded project is.

[@remyworldpeace]

I love the old Singapore TV accent haha

[@yiming99]

yes, proper English

[@yeoseotidle2290]

@@yiming99why should Chinese people speak English?

[@cuscoothriyas5163]

​@@yiming99 The cadence of speech is weird af

[@dompdompdomp]

Yeah Singaporeans got dumber

[@ruzzelladrian907]

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.

[@mrfoxesite6982]

boomer, the video is 240p children nowadays see them as 1 pixel.

[@NCHLT]

​@@mrfoxesite6982He's not talking about video quality

[@mrfoxesite6982]

@@NCHLT but he never mentions which is common in boomers and old rotties!

[@萌萌-g3u]

没错，是的，有些地方到2008年都远没有新加坡1988年好

[@travel4gaming]

Bro went from Toa Payoh to Toa Payoh

[@wjteng14]

Nah, bro just went from Toa Payoh to Ang Mo Kio and then back

[@abao]

haha we need this back on the TV to educate the public to wait for people to exit first

[@cannonf_odder3041]

YA SIA ITS GETTING WORSE

[@EZJRVCXY]

LOL who cares? we all pay the same fair, you can't get out fast, then work harder.

[@beepbeep5153]

​@@cannonf_odder3041Mostly elderlies and foreigners

[@proteinsheikh5892]

​@@EZJRVCXYpeople like you I purposely push with my big fat body when exiting cos you all lanjiao want to enter the train first

[@thastayapongsak4422]

​@@EZJRVCXYit's faster to wait in turns.

[@REZrblde]

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

[@KatJade269]

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. 😊

[@akshaylenin7166]

Changi Branch Line Shuttle Service opened on 8th February 2002

[@akshaylenin7166]

​@@KatJade269correctly said

[@casperudemark7496]

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.

[@michelleherdian]

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. 🤑

[@TIB1243S]

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.

[@learningavocado162]

Pardon, kindly share where the $2.50 chicken rice stalls are? 😅

[@atesum]

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. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z37FeoRjpbWYjrMsi=m5fioa9AX2p3odTY

[@86soulx]

i think holland drive has a $2/$3 roasted pork rice not very sure.

[@atesum]

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.

[@Marcho978]

Really looks like something right out of the back rooms

[@grayceseeto]

they dug it out from there 😂

[@Gdhebdhgd123]

Yeah

[@Driftbus.Productions.official]

yes toa payoh station is very yellow

[@kentang1528]

And still is till this very day

[@JaceTan-90]

Even the way or the style the instructions were made in the 80s are still implemented in 2024 in other items in Singapore. Kudos 👍🏻

[@ivytan6121]

The First MRT ride opening’s ceremony was Mr Ong Teng Cheong in 7th November, 1987 at Toa Payoh MRT station.

[@djbong6408]

Thanks. Finally I now know how to use the MRT.

[@arvs7356]

don't forget to collect your change!

[@Aravestia]

Toa Payoh MRT station still looks the same 😂

[@gabrielscruisechannel3252]

Love the shoulder pads!

[@catysnow]

I am still wondering how a 1990 Crimewatch episode haven't come out yet,but this video does.

[@natkretep]

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!

[@PaganMin-1966]

@@natkretep but now if less than $2 in your card cannot travel, must top up first

[@RitosM]

Very interesting window into the past. Thanks for uploading.

[@enluo9464]

The English is world-class! 👍👍

[@MoonLiteNite]

it is like his native language or something O.o

[@mmojave]

His mandarin is very good too. He has another video in mandarin.

[@shuu-wasseo]

@@MoonLiteNite it is

[@gdkid]

they were a british colony so like

[@horiokayujin]

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

[@DiamondKingStudios]

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.

[@arvs7356]

Toa Payoh station still has the same tiled walls until today! Goes to show how well maintained MRT stations in Singapore are!

[@gunslingerfan1238]

Toa Payoh hits different all those years ago

[@SIGNALacquired]

that is one tiny tie he's wearing.

[@realcartoongirl]

so how he remove it

[@tsemunhoi1568]

The legendary Samuel Chong!

[@pingteo6104]

His voice is so iconic!

[@86soulx]

i searched for him and wow, im surprised he speaks very fluent chinese nowadays.

[@jays_waki_official]

​@@86soulx He also speak very well in Chinese version. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 kzbin.info/www/bejne/maemZ6OVoNqpmpIsi=5Hk4zVNpwSIUEBiX

[@KatJade269]

Yes, I was trying to recall his name.

[@KatJade269]

@@86soulxYes. Bilingual.

[@TehCGaoSiewDai]

5:26 & 9:23 Back then when I was a kid I was really scared of those "killer" gates.

[@LuckyVacuum]

😄 same.... I'm here in the comments section to see if anyone else shares the same thoughts after watching the ticket gate closing

[@pikk2525]

Exactly. . Painful af

[@shervintan]

lol I remember the sound of gate. Errrr bang go in

[@anthp1c518]

Good thing they made it slower and safer

[@aerithofmyore]

The Pioneers worked realy hard..

[@sazaki1999]

Man, thanks for archiving history!

[@kimhonggoh5882]

Good accent, English,clear, steady

[@ksfAandkhiproductions3491]

Great way to get used to standard English for Singaporeans

[@tdb7992]

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.

[@hongsienkwee537]

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

[@maccomplex]

Sydney still has these same gates but with an updated module for contactless payments

[@blowirb]

Man I have to say. The design principles of the signage and interface are really clean and minimalistic.

[@trenzterra]

Wow didn't know we had yellow and blue lines in the 1980s

[@C151Shaun]

Yellow was for northbound service and blue was for westbound service. It was like this until 2001.

[@jonathanya154]

They run out of colour choice after too many lines went operational…

[@Tvyoutubeacc]

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 😂

[@mrfoxesite6982]

because formal english sucks. formality sucks.

[@mqxogames]

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.

[@shastasilverchairsg]

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.

[@jamess7375]

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!

[@aquaticaries7725]

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

[@jonathanya154]

@@aquaticaries7725 Actually quite true. Imagine when the platform is very crowded and someone accidentally pushed someone onto the track…

[@MoonLiteNite]

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.

[@melissatan7721]

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!!

[@stsh]

Toa Payoh to Dhoby Ghaut went from $0.70 to $1.30. Not too bad

[@PaganMin-1966]

It maybe increased each and every year😂

[@jessicaregina1956]

I take the mrt for free 😂

[@TimothyMokCJ]

Now it is $1.09 - $2.50.

[@jaytan2649]

"Once you enter the station, you will notice how clean and modern MRT facilities are...." Me: Looks at the MRT toilets

[@albinoasesino]

2:35 Wait till they hear of this thing called SIMPLYGO

[@EZJRVCXY]

they will crawl out of their grave and haunt the person who invented SIMPLYGO

[@MoonLiteNite]

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!

[@mehmehmehmehmehmehmeh]

Those gates knocked the wind outta me, good times

[@svc965bsoe]

10:11 “in future I know how I’m going to work! The car can stay at home” lol😂😂lol 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

[@ggg9gg]

City hall station still looking similar to this

[@C151Shaun]

Do you have one on the woodlands extension?

[@Jx0592]

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

[@TimothyMokCJ]

This will no longer make sense. Use the line system.

[@echakarian]

Excellent video

[@迷迷鼠]

Good video to learn how to ride MRT.

[@Ukai_ptk]

Thanks Lee Kwan Yew

[@Whimsicaltalesx]

And the late Mr Ong Teng Cheong there wouldn’t be MRT system if not for him

[@Ukai_ptk]

@@Whimsicaltalesx thanks mr ong, them all synergy

[@officialnyiyanmoehtet]

Wait that's the same guy from the Just Follow Law movie! The funny boss.

[@akshaylenin7166]

Our Kawasaki C151 train sets in unte furnished form before the mid life upgradation of C151 trains in late 2007 to early 2008

[@hermdude]

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.

[@stephenbachmann1171]

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.

[@ZenaGivan]

Yes the 1st MRT train was from Japan.

[@yongjie1997]

It's Billy Bong!

[@jays_waki_official]

Nope, it's Samuel Chong 张永权. 😂😂😂

[@shervintan]

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.

[@SuperValue350]

Legacy of Ong Teng Cheong. Meanwhile, no one cares about KFC.

[@lightspeeder]

People care about his son

[@mysticery]

Dang. How tall is he.

[@officialnyiyanmoehtet]

6ft 183cm.

[@ZenaGivan]

No. Is 190cm

[@foobar1500]

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.

[@GingerOreo]

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.

[@loampaulussimatupang7721]

In the past, there was no MRT Singapore payment via Ez Link cards or bank cards

[@realcartoongirl]

they are 60 years old now

[@PaganMin-1966]

Those were the days using this type of transit cards😂

[@akshaylenin7166]

I used the TransitLink Magnetic Fare Card when was young till 2002

[@myaurora88]

haiz in the 80s, remaining value can be displayed while in 2024, it can no longer display and pple are finding excuses...

[@BaySean]

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?

[@i_want_you_to_smile_now]

LoL Sungei Kadut🥺🥺🥺 is there such station along the EW or NS line, i dun think so

[@BaySean]

@user-np3tm4nk6m that's teh future infill station between Kranji and Yew Tee.

[@puppydoge2322]

Is that Billy bong

[@adrianng4786]

Is it last time in 1987 only underground mrt station got the one digit station code N 6 Ang mo Kio was N 9 how come cannot see the station code for the above ground stations

[@h3llmag3]

I was just born on this year 😮

[@BaySean]

Samuel Chong?

[@sgdkdl]

Yes

[@Singapore_player0808]

Hes back🎉🎉

[@david8964]

it take me back to 80s

[@arsewipe22424]

Are you uploading the other languages soon?

[@jays_waki_official]

Chinese version is uploaded. kzbin.info/www/bejne/maemZ6OVoNqpmpIsi=M3_jIa33eCgvWQf2

[@jaffarz]

6:34 people very eager to get on lol

[@disiaosiao5931]

Seems like we don’t hv a lot of travellers back then compared to now

[@f.p1758]

Ohhhh, thats why theres a ticketing booth at the mrt Even though there are no ticket

[@weirdshit]

You were expecting tickets to be in paper form during then?

[@jays_waki_official]

Now that ticket booth transform to SimplyGo ticket office.

[@cva9928]

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? 😅

[@sxnchou]

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

[@cva9928]

@@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.

[@BaySean]

6:34 now elevated MRT stns have platform doors 🚇🇸🇬

[@gheelaw7153]

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?

[@setsuro.splice]

ah man... 80s were so awesome. One look and you know its from the 80s. @2:51 green, blue, yellow. lol.... wheres red? xD

[@ilhamrj2599]

Wow, Singaporean used to speak with this kind of English accent??

[@xxDxxism]

presenters lah bro until now presenters also speak more formal one

[@SuperValue350]

Singaporeans can speak formally if they wish. Nothing wrong with informal Singlish in a casual context.

[@jays_waki_official]

His chinese also can speak very well in Chinese version. kzbin.info/www/bejne/maemZ6OVoNqpmpIsi=M3_jIa33eCgvWQf2

[@MoonLiteNite]

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

[@bearysweetgyu2774]

omg this is so fascinating

[@ornelassilva6690]

I wish my country could be as organized :((((

[@andersonnick8526]

I see which nation you’re from

[@luib7701]

Same here in Philippines

[@ansonchanhahaha]

Where are you from? MRT is becoming the standard in city building nowadays

[@ornelassilva6690]

@@ansonchanhahaha Hello sorry for the late reply. Angola.

[@ornelassilva6690]

@@andersonnick8526 Hello sorry for the late reply. Angola.

[@mlkelt]

Isn’t that Samuel Chong?

[@sgdkdl]

Yes

[@i-vernsimphonique3012]

He speaks very well. ❤ Very presentable!

[@sgdkdl]

@i-vernsimphonique2458 He also appeared on security video for MRT too.

[@jonathanya154]

@@i-vernsimphonique3012 And he is equally well in mandarin.

[@jays_waki_official]

Yes, and his chinese also speak very well in Chinese version. kzbin.info/www/bejne/maemZ6OVoNqpmpIsi=M3_jIa33eCgvWQf2

[@SongShiyu]

Goo'ol days

[@shadowtrooper262]

Last time got lift? How can disabled wheelchair bound personnel ride?

[@terencew3840]

nope. retrofitted after 2000.

[@jays_waki_official]

The lift start operation back in 2005.

[@agymayachelonia8381]

The music!!!

[@MoonLiteNite]

Crazy how the stations look very much the same. The biggest difference is the way people dress

[@NeoTalon]

I LOVE MRT!!!

[@feverpitchxx]

What on earth happened in Singapore back in 80s? The accent hahahahaha.

[@DemocraticInternetBrigade]

Wah..back then the fares were inexpensive 🥹🥹

[@terencew3840]

1988 fishball noodles, chicken rice, fried kway teow was $1.50. coffee was 50c

[@Ihatelifebruh]

The fares adjusted for inflation actually went down tbh

[@山下奉文-n8n]

张永权 1958, 66 years old in 2024

[@summerventi4597]

why this is on my recommendation

[@GingerOreo]

Anyone knows the name of the presenter?

[@kenglucktan8996]

This is pretty cool

[@ridhobaihaqi144]

My country's public transportation at the same year: ☠️☠️🗿🗿

[@izzatfauzimustafa6535]

Who's the presenter in the video guide?

[@leshredder]

His name is Samuel Zhang / Zhang yong Quan 张永全

[@jonathanya154]

Telephone number was still 7 digit.

[@SubstituteRealitiesChannel]

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

[@AllXaZ]

For real bro

[@jont2576]

god just looking at the interior decor and the ticketing machines and gantry just gives me serious late 90s and early 2000s vibes.....everything just gives nostalgia chills and vibes, the stations and parks and literally how empty and little people there are everywhere...on the roads, trains, platforms.... and all the faces all looks singaporean....instead of walking out the door of ur apartment in the morning and being greeted by endless tsunami of human beings, and half the faces foreign,alienating, all living in their own little bubbles and microcosm, speaking their own tongues languages, embracing their own cultures....all unwilling reluctant and refusing to integrate with the native population......but everyone is too polite to bring it up or make a fuss about it politically or socially.....we just tolerate each other and go about in our roles in the economy....a tolerance not truly born out of love or acceptance or even genuine curiosity but a tolerance that just scream ur merely tolerating each others presence.....thanks globalisation and mass immigration for ruining the entire world. not a single day in the past 10,15 years do singaporeans wish they could turn back the clock and live in the past.

[@jonathanya154]

Actually those passengers you see in the video are just cameos. They are filming this video clip for education purposes so you don’t see real or actual commuters.

[@gheelaw7153]

see how advanced is Singapore and its Citizens even in 1988? I can ever see some of them already wearing Bluetooth earbuds.

[@nuzereta4471]

"There is no war in ba sing se" ahh accent

[@gondryeros]

THIS GUY IS CUTE AS HELL

[@DicePunk]

Who remembers scraping your forehead with those tickets?

[@projohn123]

And this one is free, very Singaporean😂

[@platinumbridge]

Omg its Billy Bong

[@goodness_graciousme]

Ehhhh! Its Billy Bong!!! 😂