SBS
I can't help but be amazed at the Government's ability to keep everything calm as if nothing is wrong despite all the disapprovements by the public.
Of course, there's the easy excuse that Singaporeans are exponents in complaining and ignore the fact that there is a basis for the complaints.
Yes, the previous couple of paragraphs were fabricated out of thin air to validate my right to complain too.
There has been a subtle yet continual increase in price of public transports (this despite the Government encouraging people to take public transport rather than private ones). The explanation given by Transport Minister Raymond Low has always been that better service will be provided and that the oil prices are at an all time high.
I agree on that part on oil prices skyrocketing (which has also driven the price of Char Kway Teows up too. pfft), but the service part? Ye got ter be kiddin' me.
After I left school today, which was at the peak hour of 7 pm, I headed to Yio Chu Kang bus interhange to, well, duh, take a bus to band practise.
It is inevitable and understandable that some buses are delayed at peak hours because of the overwhelming amount of passengers at each stop, causing the buses to be as late as half an hour, or when it is non-peak hours, when buses are sent out a lot less frequently.
But it is ridiculous and incomprehensible that a passenger can be waiting for TWO buses at the bus INTERCHANGE at PEAK hour for 45 minutes for the first bus to come!!
No wonder bus captains are assaulted so much. Passengers were made to wait so long for a bus in the sweltering, stuffy, stifling Singaporean weather, any sane person is apt to become crabby and irritable.
The point is, I was late for band practise by half a frickin' hour, which would not have happened if BOTH buses deigned to leave the interchange in a more understandable time.
THIS is definitely not the kind of service that justifies the price hikes, and I'm sure that almost everybody common enough to take public transport in a daily basis would have some past transgressions with the service.
SBS, buck up can?!
Of course, there's the easy excuse that Singaporeans are exponents in complaining and ignore the fact that there is a basis for the complaints.
Yes, the previous couple of paragraphs were fabricated out of thin air to validate my right to complain too.
There has been a subtle yet continual increase in price of public transports (this despite the Government encouraging people to take public transport rather than private ones). The explanation given by Transport Minister Raymond Low has always been that better service will be provided and that the oil prices are at an all time high.
I agree on that part on oil prices skyrocketing (which has also driven the price of Char Kway Teows up too. pfft), but the service part? Ye got ter be kiddin' me.
After I left school today, which was at the peak hour of 7 pm, I headed to Yio Chu Kang bus interhange to, well, duh, take a bus to band practise.
It is inevitable and understandable that some buses are delayed at peak hours because of the overwhelming amount of passengers at each stop, causing the buses to be as late as half an hour, or when it is non-peak hours, when buses are sent out a lot less frequently.
But it is ridiculous and incomprehensible that a passenger can be waiting for TWO buses at the bus INTERCHANGE at PEAK hour for 45 minutes for the first bus to come!!
No wonder bus captains are assaulted so much. Passengers were made to wait so long for a bus in the sweltering, stuffy, stifling Singaporean weather, any sane person is apt to become crabby and irritable.
The point is, I was late for band practise by half a frickin' hour, which would not have happened if BOTH buses deigned to leave the interchange in a more understandable time.
THIS is definitely not the kind of service that justifies the price hikes, and I'm sure that almost everybody common enough to take public transport in a daily basis would have some past transgressions with the service.
SBS, buck up can?!
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2:30 am
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