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22-01-2014, 09:50 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
Our train operators seem more focused on staying financially afloat than becoming more efficient at what they do. ‘Unfortunate timing’ or not, something needs to be done. Yet nothing much has changed since the last exercise; trains are still overcrowded, people don’t get to board even after 3 to 4 trains, and shit like this happens.
The train system shouldn’t be addressed in isolation simply by pumping money into it. You need to figure out how to alleviate traffic flow as a whole, like encouraging alternative forms of commute (bicycling), overhauling our entire urban design or tweak immigration policies to curb this congestion epidemic. Otherwise, we commuters will continue to be slaves to a formula devised by people who’ve probably never taken a peak hour train ride in their life, and end up becoming what Anton Casey refers to in his FB as ‘poor people’.
Time to wake up, Transport Ministry. You can’t just impose fines for sloppy standards anymore because that’s still our money they’re surrendering to you. We can shake and rattle all we want, but in the end, heads must roll.
- http://everythingalsocomplain.com/20...parate-issues/ (http://everythingalsocomplain.com/2014/01/21/mrt-fare-hike-and-breakdowns-are-separate-issues/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?173252-MRT-fare-hike-and-breakdowns-are-separate-issues-Really&goto=newpost).
Our train operators seem more focused on staying financially afloat than becoming more efficient at what they do. ‘Unfortunate timing’ or not, something needs to be done. Yet nothing much has changed since the last exercise; trains are still overcrowded, people don’t get to board even after 3 to 4 trains, and shit like this happens.
The train system shouldn’t be addressed in isolation simply by pumping money into it. You need to figure out how to alleviate traffic flow as a whole, like encouraging alternative forms of commute (bicycling), overhauling our entire urban design or tweak immigration policies to curb this congestion epidemic. Otherwise, we commuters will continue to be slaves to a formula devised by people who’ve probably never taken a peak hour train ride in their life, and end up becoming what Anton Casey refers to in his FB as ‘poor people’.
Time to wake up, Transport Ministry. You can’t just impose fines for sloppy standards anymore because that’s still our money they’re surrendering to you. We can shake and rattle all we want, but in the end, heads must roll.
- http://everythingalsocomplain.com/20...parate-issues/ (http://everythingalsocomplain.com/2014/01/21/mrt-fare-hike-and-breakdowns-are-separate-issues/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?173252-MRT-fare-hike-and-breakdowns-are-separate-issues-Really&goto=newpost).