Flip open the street directory/Google Earth/Singapore Map or whatever, zoom out of the 'picture' a little more. Its like a small piece of heaven being surrounded by a sea of fire. Don't believe me? Let's take a look.
North: Sungei Kadut. A relatively large industrial estate. If you drive further up and out of Sungei Kadut, you'll land yourself in Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve. And if you can navigate better, it probably would lead you to Woodlands but if you take KJE and BKE, it would be a faster route anyway.
South: The only way out of the town. The main town known as Choa Chu Kang. If you were heading to work, you'll have no choice but to head down south. And what happens when everyone heads towards a same direction? If your answer was traffic congestion, you are absolutely correct. Entrance to KJE along CCK Drive and CCK Way are constantly being 'jammed'. Even a 3-lane/4-lane CCK Way couldn't even make way for a surge of vehicles during peak hour.
West: Ha! You wouldn't even want to know it. Its a camp. Extremely large forested area in the East of the town. Only a very small space is used as a Canine Camp and an Army Camp. Totally no access to the East area. Even if there is, you'll find yourself in a dense cemetery. But; could something be done more to the empty plot of land that is being situated between Yew Tee and Lim Chu Kang.
East: Guess what? Its another huge plot of forested land. Even bigger than the one dividing the town and cemetery. Underneath it, they're building a big train depot. On top? Just a dense forest. A little up north is Mandai and south is Bt. Panjang. The way out of the town would be by Woodlands Road. And connecting to Woodlands Road is Stagmont Ring, a road owned by Malaysia with only 1-lane and often causing traffic congestion especially when a train arrives, well not anymore.
Yes, we can get whatever we want in the town itself. But we're talking about connectivity with the world today. If we can't even 'connect' with the other towns of Singapore properly, how can we connect with the world?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not condemning the place I'm living in now. Don't you think that there's so much more that can be done to the town? People staying in CCK Street 51/52, CCK North Avenue 5, CCK Crescent needs to take a feeder bus just to get to the train station to go for work/home. During peak hours, the station platform will be full of people and I can safely say that even if SMRT were to roll out all the train-sets that they can afford, its not going to ease the congestion.
Bus 302 takes you around the town from CCK Loop. Bus 307 takes you to the furthest Teck Whye. And there's no other bus that you can possibly find in Yew Tee. Atrocious? Since introducing more trains will not help, why not make use of the bus? There can be bus-lanes that can be implemented down south and if possible another outlet to the other towns.
If you're thinking of how the trunk bus services is going to make its way from Lot'1 up to Yew Tee and back down to the other towns then I've got to say you're not using your brains. There's an open plot of land in the West. Leave it there to grow mushrooms? Built a terminal there. Just like a huge Hougang town with 2 bus interchanges, Hougang Central and Hougang South.
The man currently in charge of the area here is already in talks with the authorities on this. And you can be sure I'm keeping an eye on the matter.