Lines

One of the things that have been somewhat annoying is the length of lines or queues as they call them out here.  It seems like whenever there is a major event of some sort, things sort of get out of control.

I was at the Singapore Airshow yesterday, which was sort of neat, but the lines and/or queue management could be something that could be improved.  First, there were just too many vehicles going to the event, making crowd management too difficult.  They allowed taxis and private vehicles to go - what they should've done is make parking prohibitively expensive and not really allow taxis - or have them sent to a staging are and then bus to the event.  Plus, they didn't have a bus only lane, which created more problems with congestion.  We also queued almost half an hour to get on the bus from the mass transit rail station before getting on the bus.  And because of the long lines and delays, there was this Aussie on the bus and he got really annoyed at the fact they hadn't done any sort of planning.  He even mentioned that because of this lack of experience, the locals may have some difficulty with the upcoming nightime formula one racing.

This is not the only example of long lines.  Grocery stores during Chinese New Years were also insane, and they didn't even bother opening all the different lane positions, which was really annoying!  Plus, taxi's at the airport experience similar issues - the lines are hideously long, and I guess people are maybe more patient here but it really gets old and annoying quite fast!