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Revitalise nightlife? Let’s get the crowds out first
It’s not enough to extend opening hours. Consider more car-free zones to tempt people to step out of their homes.
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Local nightlife precincts like Boat Quay have never quite been the same again since being gutted by the pandemic.
PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO
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Some of us of the thirty-something elder millennial ilk will remember the palpable buzz in Club Street and Holland Village, back when the roads were closed on weekends and parties spilled out onto the streets.
Like clockwork, the tables from bars at the sloping confluence of Ann Siang Hill and Club Street would be laid out on the street on Friday and Saturday evenings, ready for the onslaught of the post-work weekend crowd.
