Sense and senses

<p>Things might be easier for us with all five senses and full freedom of movement. What about those without?</p> <p>Among the firsts that the Bukit Panjang LRT introduced was full lift accessibility throughout the line. This was accompanied with the Changi Airport Extension, with airport travellers with heavy luggage needing to use the lifts for obvious reasons, and all other rail projects afterward.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.smrt.com.sg/Portals/0/PDFs/Annual%20Reports/2002_AR.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">In 2002 (though possibly earlier)</a>, the LTA also embarked on a project to install publicly accessible lifts at all its existing stations,&nbsp;<a href="https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/webarchives/wayback/20071203061337/http://app.lta.gov.sg/corp_press_content.asp?start=1848" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">a project completed in 2007.</a></p> <p>While there were already lifts accessible at platform level, those went into back of house areas and were presumably used for moving material to and from platform level &mdash; most famously, to bring cash up to the old money train that used to run between NSEWL stations. Some of these lifts may also have been removed in favour of the new public-accessible lifts.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/from-the-red-line/sense-and-senses-21f58926d3da"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>
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