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Dear Minister of Transport,
Sorry to bother you.
I know you are busy taking selfies in front of the Covid-19 vaccine transport plane.
But there is an urgent problem regarding our national mass rapid transit (MRT) system that needs your immediate attention as it is tearing our country and my family apart.
Is the circular line yellow or orange?
It looks orange to me on the map, but my daughter has always called it the yellow line. My wife knows it only as the Circle Line. My son doesn’t care.
Yes, it’s like #dressgate and Yanny / Laurel again, but this time, it’s coming home, even though I actually live closer to the North-South Line.
In a recent Twitter poll I came across, 74 percent say the circular line is yellow and 26 percent say it is orange.
If this were an election, Yellow would now be president and Coldplay would play the national anthem. But Orange has refused to budge and is officially backed by the Land Transportation Authority (LTA).
Last year, in response to a query about the color of the circular line, LTA responded in an email: “I am pleased to share that the color of the circular line is orange. The hue may vary on different elements, such as a label tag. vinyl, printed on paper or screen printing … luminous posters “.
But, confusingly, SMRT Corporation has referred to Circle Line as the “yellow line” in a bunch of tweets from 2012.
However, SMRT appears to have recently changed its hue, or at least its perception of color.
Last week, responding to an inquiry, someone in SMRT customer relations wrote in an email: “We wish to share that the SMRT Circle Line is orange.”
A screenshot of the answer has been circulating online ever since, sparking the uproar.
NOT REALLY A CIRCLE
Some took the opportunity to vent a long-standing resentment against the Circle Line for not being a real circle in real life, no matter how the authorities draw it on the map.
Fake news! They are lying to us about the circular line being orange, just as they are lying to us about it being circular.
So I don’t know how many were persuaded by LTA’s Facebook response on Christmas Eve to a Mothership article wondering if the Circle Line is yellow or orange.
LTA posted an orange dot with the comment: “‘Orange’ you’re glad we cleared that up.”
It was not a Christmas miracle. The pun didn’t help.
My daughter, for example, remains unconvinced.
She is part of the rainbow generation that grew up memorizing MRT lines as yellow line, red line, green line, and blue line.
While for his mother and me, they are Circle Line, North-South Line, East-West Line and Downtown Line.
At least we all agree on what to call the Northeast Line: NEL. It’s fun to say.
So for LTA and SMRT to declare that the circular line is orange, it’s like saying no, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus.
We all know what the truth is, but as a parent, I would like to avoid destroying that part of my daughter’s childhood for as long as I can, even though she is already 21 years old.
Could you, as the Minister of Transportation, in the spirit of Christmas, override the LTA and SMRT, and make the Circle Line yellow?
Do it for the kids.
2020 has already cost us all a lot. Grant us this to end the year on a brighter note. Thank you.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, hopefully.
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