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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Toa Payoh~

I had never live in Toa Payoh before, nor i know much about it. According to http://www.wikipedia.org , Toa Payoh was once an extensive and notorious squatter district. Most squatters were engaged in farming and rearing pigs. The others were hawkers, factory workers, mechanics or domestic helpers. The squatters starteed moving out in 1962 as a result of increased of compensation rates and other practical inducement offered by the Goverment. Clearance work was able to commence and the redevelopment started in 1964. The Toa Payoh New Town, HDB's second satellite town, was then built in 1970.





Toa Payoh have many first of its kind, such as Singapore's first fully air-conditioned bus interchange.





The town center was the first prototype in Singapore.It is surrounded by neighbourhoods, shopping amenities, community centre, sporting facilities.




I found Toa Payoh quite an interesting place to hang around, shopping or sporting.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

For me,Toa payoh is not the place that i live in, so i dont know much about it.The only place that i can say about somthing...would be Toa payoh central interchange.

It is the place that i usally go to withdraw money from ATM.This interchange has a lot of banking facilities.It is very convenient things for the people who have to withdraw money from one bank and deposit that money to another bank.i do not have to walk around too much to find another bank since all kind of banks are located inside the interchange.

And also, i usally go this place to have dinners with my brothers.There is one place to sell korean food in the central and luckily, the cheif in there is korean.Since he is korean and my broters are the usual customers, he gave a lot of servece to us...i mean he gave us a lot of more foods or sometimes discount.

After having dinner, i usally go strolling aroud the central or just go to popular book shop in the central and read some magazines.The one really good thing about this place is this for me.If i have to wait for ma friends or bus ao long, i an kill my time in that bookshop.

Anyway,for those reasons,i like Toa pahyo intercahnge and it is the most lovely place in the Toa payoh for me.