In the battle against the car, space-starved Singapore has deployed road tolls, massive spending on public transport, and a licence fee that bumps the cost of an average vehicle to over 80,000 dollars.But urban planners looking for solutions to gridlock may find the draconian measures hard to replicate in other less-compliant cities.Singapore has gone further than any other major city to avoid the monster jams that have blighted Asian metropolises such as Jakarta or Manila.The tough approach