Take a look at the mess that EDSA has become. Did the authorities really plan it to be this way? Then read this:

From Singapore's The Straits Times newspaper of Dec. 15, 2007:

Selling Tunnel Vision To People
by Goh Chin Lian

Between Aljunied and Kallang stations, the columns of the viaduct carrying the above-ground MRT line are further apart than the other sections.

Know why?

Because the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE) tunnel was going to pass under it.

But that's not the "wow" factor. What impresses visitors to the tunnel, says engineer Ong Thiam Ser, is that the decision on the columns was made 25 years before the tunnel would eventually be built in 2002.

"They would say, 'Wah, you all planned so far ahead'," recalls Mr Ong, a senior project engineer with the Land Transport Authority...