Transport fares to go up come October

ha ha ha ha...double posting. Will reply to the one below instead.
Connection must be slow on your side to create a timeout. Thus making you think you did not post the earlier one.

Exactly what I feel too.
When things are getting expensive, they give the excuse, cost increase thus price must increase.

But when the prices of things go down, I never once hear them say, discount due to price reduction for cost.
Sigh... so much for public sector, government for the people principle.
Sure the heck gives people from other country the impression that the people working for the bus companies and the train companies are getting paid really well eh?

Now I am waiting to see how many more bus service routes are going to be changes to make it such that less transfers is needed. Then people will have no chance to exercise the higher transfer rebates except for those who transfer from train to bus.
And vice versa.

Sorry about the double post.. hehe^_^

Yeah, if there's gonna be a change in most bus routes to direct routes, i will make sure that i will get off at every other stop to transfer bus, so that at the end of the journey, i will be paying even much lesser than the minimum that i have to pay.. lol

Very soon, maybe re-route the bus till no choice, they say, bus have to pay ERP also.. lol=D

R-I-G-H-T~~~... you save 7 cents in the transfer rebate between the two buses.
But did you think, you would have paid more due to the transfer for the same route?
Let me go get an example, then I will post in detail tonight.

Nope, most buses will only remain on the same route for certain distances and after which they will turn away, and for ple who wanna transfer bus, it's up to them where they wanna alight and board the next bus, and if the earlier they board, the more likely they will get seats, and need not squeeze with the others..

SO why should the fare be the same when we are not gonna take the same bus, even though on the same route.. haha

Like I mentioned before, at the back of my head, I just cannot help but get the feeling that there will be some changes in the popular bus routes to make it almost impossible to do a transfer. There by forcing us to forgo the rebates cos there is no other alternatives.

If the route changes makes for a smoother ride to and from work, then of course, that is an improvement in service. If it is otherwise, we will just end up having to start off earlier for work and reaching home later from work to compensate for some incompetent scholar's work and planning. Sigh... what else is new?

There will always be more of a problem, then a solution to us when it comes to transport.. lol=D U see, right now, the government has decided not to build the remaining 5-6 ERP gantries because the traffic is alot smoother now.. BUt soon, they will be doing something to the roads or system there, making it very congested with heavy traffic, and they will have every reason to set up ERP gantries again.. lol

Well, if they are going to give discount, give it out right.
Don't make it so difficult for the masses.
Seriously, how many of us actually do transfers?

Mabbe it is more than I think. I don't know.
All I know now is that the changes do not make it cheaper for me. In fact, it only adds to my bill.
What transfer rebate of additional 15 cents.
Then with the two fares, it is an overall savings of 7 cents.

Heck, want to give 7 cents rebate, give it out right.
All fares decrease by 3.5 cents and then I will say they are doing this for the good of the people!

Anyways, feeling the pinch here. So griping and griping... no other alternatives to voice out liow.

hmmm... it is like that.

gov wants to balance both sides. earn and be nice at the same time. tough la

we just have to endure lor

Sometimes when you read the papers, you cannot help but feel that all these are just a show to tell the people they are doing something.
Infuriating if you think about it. Cos those people that sits on the panel are all paid. I wonder where the money is coming from? Tax payers's money?

indeed. but well, they have a job to do and sometimes they have to strike a balance too. what will you do if you were them? prob the same thing too?

just hope that whatever they do, it is for the better in the long run. stock market going down and recession coming, hope the gov can appreciate that too

Precisely! and the best part of it is, the PTC allows it.
I mean, it is not like they change the fleet of buses every year.
And if there is a mark improvement in the services, at least can justify the difference.

Since the first day I started working, Till today, the cost of transport has risen so much, $50 top up don't last as long as they used to anymore.

Though Public transport in other advanced countries are expensive too, at least many of those countries are bicycle-friendly (ie. Europe, Japan).
I seriously prefer cycling to taking public transport.

If there ever come a day where bicycle is popular, then you will see some smart butt scholar coming up with some funny ideas.

Going by the way history goes, they will first try to force everyone to get a license to ride the bicycle on the road.
Then they will get people to register their bicycles before it can go on the road after a period of time. Then they will get the police to enforce these rules.
Once everyone abide by it, they will start to charge COE for the number of bicycles to be on the road. And before you know it, bicycle road tax!

It is a matter of whether they will be able to find the right opportunity to implement it only.
Sad, isn't it?

Utilities just went up too.
We are definitely in period of stagflation.