On the first day of September, Singapore's Land Transport Authority passed its chairmanship from one seasoned steward to another — a quiet but consequential transfer of responsibility over the arteries of a city-state. Pang Kin Keong, whose three-and-a-half decades in public service have taken him from the corridors of the Prime Minister's Office to the oversight of ports and airports, now inherits a mandate to keep millions of lives in motion. He follows Alan Chan, whose decade at the helm saw Singapore's rail network grow through pandemic and uncertainty alike. The reshuffled board around hi