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Singapore

An island, a congestion charge from 1975, and an MRT that opened in 1987 into a planned city.

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Existing transit 208 lines · 8204 stops · LTA
Singapore: the 208 transit lines and 184 stations the pack starts with, over the metro's water and major roadsBus 10Bus 100Bus 103Bus 104Bus 105Bus 106Bus 107Bus 107MBus 109Bus 10eBus 114Bus 117Bus 117MBus 118Bus 12Bus 123Bus 124Bus 129Bus 12eBus 13Bus 130Bus 131Bus 132Bus 133Bus 135Bus 136Bus 137Bus 139Bus 14Bus 141Bus 143Bus 145Bus 147Bus 14eBus 151Bus 153Bus 154Bus 155Bus 156Bus 157Bus 159Bus 16Bus 161Bus 163Bus 165Bus 166Bus 167Bus 168Bus 169Bus 16MBus 17Bus 170Bus 170XBus 172Bus 173Bus 174Bus 174eBus 175Bus 176Bus 178Bus 18Bus 181Bus 185Bus 186Bus 187Bus 188Bus 190Bus 192Bus 193Bus 196Bus 196eBus 197Bus 198Bus 2Bus 21Bus 22Bus 25Bus 26Bus 28Bus 3Bus 30Bus 30eBus 31Bus 32Bus 33Bus 38Bus 382Bus 39Bus 43Bus 43eBus 44Bus 45Bus 451Bus 452Bus 453Bus 457Bus 458Bus 459Bus 46Bus 48Bus 5Bus 50Bus 506Bus 51Bus 52Bus 54Bus 55Bus 56Bus 57Bus 58Bus 59Bus 61Bus 63Bus 646Bus 647Bus 648Bus 649Bus 65Bus 650Bus 651Bus 652Bus 653Bus 654Bus 655Bus 656Bus 657Bus 660Bus 660MBus 661Bus 663Bus 665Bus 666Bus 667Bus 668Bus 67Bus 670Bus 671Bus 672Bus 673Bus 674Bus 675Bus 676Bus 677Bus 678Bus 679Bus 680Bus 681Bus 682Bus 683Bus 684Bus 7Bus 70Bus 72Bus 74Bus 75Bus 76Bus 77Bus 8Bus 80Bus 85Bus 851Bus 851eBus 852Bus 853Bus 853MBus 854Bus 855Bus 856Bus 86Bus 87Bus 870Bus 88Bus 89eBus 925Bus 93Bus 960Bus 960eBus 961Bus 961MBus 963Bus 963eBus 965Bus 969Bus 97Bus 970Bus 976Bus 97eBus 980Bus 981Bus 984Bus 985Bus 99Bus 991Bus 992Bukit Panjang LRTBukit Panjang LRT LoopPunggol LRT East LoopPunggol LRT West LoopSengkang LRT East LoopSengkang LRT West LoopCircle LineCircle Line (Dhoby Ghaut Branch)Downtown LineEast-West LineEast-West Line Changi BranchNorth East LineNorth-South LineThomson-East Coast Line10 km
  • Local bus
  • Bukit Panjang LRT 1999
  • Bukit Panjang LRT Loop 1999
  • Punggol LRT East Loop 2005
  • Punggol LRT West Loop 2014
  • Sengkang LRT East Loop 2003
  • Sengkang LRT West Loop 2005
  • Circle Line 2009
  • Circle Line (Dhoby Ghaut Branch) 2009
  • Downtown Line 2013
  • East-West Line 1987
  • East-West Line Changi Branch 1987
  • North East Line 2003
  • North-South Line 1987
  • Thomson-East Coast Line 2020

Bus, Light rail, Metro — lines, stops and colours from the operating agency's published GTFS, opening years where the feed or the record gives one. Water and roads: OpenStreetMap (ODbL), Overpass extract of the playable core. 1,436,591 residents in 162 zones, pack 2020.

#Facts, figures, history

Singapore, as the pack records it.

Population by decade, a sourced metro series scaled to the 2020 pack.
YearPopulation
1921105,704
1931140,922
1947237,035
1957365,333
1970524,152
1980609,915
1990769,899
20001,017,699
20101,282,704
20201,436,595

The pack's sourced population series runs from 105,704 residents in 1921 to 1,436,595 in 2020.

The zones cover 911 km², about 1,576 residents per km², with 660,837 jobs at the workplace.

The pack seeds 14 playable rail/BRT/ferry lines, 194 bus lines drawn on the map. East-West Line opened in 1987; Thomson-East Coast Line opened in 2020.

Difficulty is Forgiving.

✓What winning here takes

Six ways to win Singapore, each set by Singapore.

There is no score to beat. Each condition is computed from the metro as you inherit it, with the engine's own arithmetic; these are the bars the game will set on day one in Singapore, in 2025. The blue tick is where the city stands today; the red band is where it has to get to. The run continues after you win.

  1. Transit Capitalheld for a year

    1.5%today · published share; the game uses day one
    1.5%needed · hold the inherited share, for a year

    The region's existing system carries about 1.5% of all trips. The operating rail is in the model; in the game the bar is what that system carries on day one, held for a year.

  2. Roads Unclogged

    0%today · relief before you build
    10%needed · cut in peak congestion

    Against what the region would have without your network, not against the day you started — the region grows, and holding congestion flat through growth is the harder achievement.

  3. Carbon Cut

    0ttoday · net tonnes avoided today
    28,732tneeded · net tonnes of CO₂ a year

    Scaled to this metro's 1,436,591 residents at 0.02 tonnes each — roughly what moving a few percent of the region's driving onto rail saves, after the trains are charged for their own power.

  4. Held the Lineheld for a year

    0%today · on time, before a train runs
    80%needed · on time · 65% satisfied · a year in surplus

    All three at once. The cheapest route to a surplus is cutting the service that produces the other two, so this is the condition that cannot be bought.

  5. Within Reach

    0%today · within a walk of your stops
    10%needed · of the metro within a kilometre of a stop

    The operating rail is already in the model, so coverage does not start at nothing. The bar is a tenth of the metro within a walk, or 60% more than you inherit, whichever is higher.

  6. Ten Minutes Back

    0%today · cut so far
    10%needed · off the average regional commute

    Measured on every resident, including the people who never board a train — a network that takes cars off the road shortens the drive for everyone left on it. The day-one average is the model’s first solve.

Carbon Cut's bar is 0.02 net tonnes a year for each resident, floored at 20,000. Transit Capital, coverage and the commute are taken from the network you inherit: where the pack seeds operating rail, from that system's first solve; where it does not, Transit Capital uses the model's default present-day share (floored at 1% and capped at 6%) and coverage starts from nothing. The gauges' Transit Capital tick is that default either way.

What you are given

What you are given

Every one of Singapore's 162 zones arrives with derived numbers attached: resident population from OSM land-use shares of a sourced 2020 metro series, jobs allocated from the land-use mix, and a gravity-model home-to-work matrix. These are not US Census tracts and not LODES commute pairs — the pack says so on its provenance string.

Work trips are a gravity model from those land-use shares, labelled DERIVED, not a census commuting matrix. The streets, water and operating lines are still observed: OpenStreetMap and the agency's published GTFS.

Singapore's operating rail — 208 lines, 8204 stops — is seeded into the playable network from the agency's published GTFS: the lines run, they cost money to operate, and riders board them. Local bus stays decoration.

What makes it hard

What makes Singapore hard

Forgiving. Dense, centred, and already used to transit — the model has something to work with on day one. You are inheriting a system, which means you inherit its shape and its operating cost as well as its riders.

And the decade changes the problem, not the vehicle list. Singapore in 1960 is a different city from Singapore in 2025: the pack's sourced population series (UN World Urbanization Prospects and national census) is scaled onto the 2020 zone map, so the rivers and the rail yards stay where they are.

Singapore is in the full edition. The free game rotates through thirteen metros so you can check the model on a city you know before taking anyone's word about the other sixty-six. The full edition, $25 once, opens all seventy-nine. Buy Mac or Windows direct and an extra 30% — Valve's cut on Steam — goes to pro-urban organisations.

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Sources

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