Have you ever tried to outrun an MRT train? In a viral Instagram video on Sunday (July 5), local content creator Michael Collins shared his race against a train from Shenton Way to Marina Bay.
In the video, the 26-year-old explained that he had two minutes and 35 seconds to reach Marina Bay station in order to get onto the same train he had alighted from at Shenton Way station.
“I have always dreamt of being the first man to beat the MRT,” wrote Collins in the caption.
He described how he had “studied every single MRT line” and “researched every newly opened MRT station” to find stations that are less than 600m apart.
He told AsiaOne that he started by manually keying in every adjacent MRT station into Google Maps to find which stations were situated most closely to one another.
Through his research, he found four pairs of stations that fit the bill: Chinatown and Clarke Quay, Rochor and Little India, Downtown and Telok Ayer as well as Shenton Way and Marina Bay stations.
“Once I had shortlisted the four shortest sets of stations, I went down in person to scout how long the trains take to travel between the two stations and how many traffic lights I would encounter between stations to find out which one would be my best bet at beating the train!” Collins told AsiaOne.
He spent a couple days doing his research and landed on Shenton Way and Marina Bay stations because he realised it bought him some extra time to make the sprint.
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