While it was not quite business as usual, commuters and office workers told The Straits Times it feels like things are getting back to how they were two years ago.
Gone are the lines of people waiting outside office buildings and malls to do SafeEntry check ins. Instead, there were the familiar long queues at coffee shops where workers queued to get their morning brews. Trains on the North-South Line and Downtown Lines, which ran at two minute intervals during the morning peak, were crowded. But commuters were not packed shoulder-to-shoulder like they were before the pandemic.
On the feeder bus service that this reporter took to the MRT station, the bus driver had to tell passengers to move to the back of the vehicle to allow more people to board. There was also the usual tailback at Bishan Road, but traffic appeared to be relatively smooth otherwise. Mr Ryan Lim, 29, who has been back in the office about 70 per cent of the time for the past one to two months, said he will be returning to the workplace every day starting this week.