There are plenty of public transport options along Singapore’s famous shopping belt. To get from Ion Orchard to Plaza Singapura – two iconic malls that sit on opposite ends of Orchard Road – commuters can take a bus, a train, or hail a taxi. They also have the option of walking down the 1.5km stretch. But as Singapore’s car-lite vision takes hold, researchers here want to find out which public transport mode would expose a person to the least amount of pollution. A recent study by researchers from institutions such as the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (Smart) and NUS has found that the cleanest public transport mode for commuting along Orchard Road is the MRT. The study, published in the science journal Atmospheric Environment, found that after taking into consideration physical effort and travel time, commuters breathed in five times more harmful particles walking between Ion Orchard and Plaza Singapura, as compared with taking the MRT.... Continue Reading