Speech by Andre Low On Stewarding our shores for those to come On the Coastal Protection and Other Amendments Bill 2026
Mr Speaker, I support this Bill.Our identity as a nation is inseparable from our identity as an island. We were a small coastal settlement before we were a colony, and a natural harbour before we were a nation. The Singapore River made us prosperous. The Strait of Malacca—through which roughly a third of global seaborne trade passes—made us globally relevant. This is not incidental to our story. It is the whole story.
Speech by Andre Low On Express trains and shortening commutes
Chairman, the Land Transport Master Plan 2040 sets an ambitious target—9 in 10 peak public transport journeys completed within 45 minutes. As a Punggol resident, I speak from experience. A 45-minute door-to-door journey to the city is, for myself and most of my neighbours, a pipe dream. In a city where housing comes at a premium, the families who live in Punggol, Sengkang, Woodlands and other far flung towns made pragmatic choices about where to put down roots. And every morning, they pay for that choice in time. We should not have a two-speed Singapore, where time is a privilege of the few.
