YThursday, January 31, 2008
After reading the newspaper about having more ERP gantries and increasing ERP prices juz to actually ease the traffic conditions here, here is my take.Firstly, I am a driver myself, and to be honest, I always leave my car at home during the weekdays as I am working in One Raffles Quay. Parking is expensive there, and also the amount of Benz , and BMWs always hogging the roads leading Shenton way, causing all the morning jams there. Not only that, taxi drivers who think that they are F1 drivers, cutting lanes here and there, are a major factor as well. My personal opinion, all should lie on one person mindset. If they dun think for pple as in be considersate for other drivers, this problem will never end, JAMs will still occur for the next 20 years. If u cant change lanes, go the longer route, or better still, plan your route, and always stay on that lane.Secondly, dun think by putting more erp gantries and increasing the erp fare will help the caused. How to take public transport if public transport increases theirs too ? Bus and MRT fares increases every time there is smthing increase. So if 1 item increase, all will increase. All blame one another for the increase. Taxi is the worst affected. So expensive, from YCK to my place, cost abt 15 bucks. use to cost at least 12 bucks. increase like 20%. Before the adjustment, taxi drivers always complain sae the fare is always not enuff to feed many mouths. But after the adjustment, they complain again, because there are not enuff ppl to take their taxi, thus the low income. Get a life will ya, u the one who suggested to actually increase the fare, and now no ppl taking your taxis, so whose fault ? MRT and bus fares, increase 2 3 cents everytime there is a adjustment. So here increase here and there, i dun think it make a difference. So u pay more for erp gantries, u still need to pay. U take public transport, u still have to pay. So in the end, ppl will still stick to your own original decision. Which is ppl drive car will take car, ppl will take bus will take bus.Good point to note, they are building more roads, NORTH SOUTH Expressway, Marina expressway. Thumbs up to those, but then again, they are ready in like 7 8 years time. Good things always have to wait. Bad note to point out, more roads open means more ppl buy more cars. more cars in roads mean no difference at all. In summary, to solve the problem of having less cars on the roads is not my having more erp gantries and also increase erp prices. It is not helpful at all when public transport also go up. So it makes no difference !!! To start with, PLEASE BE GRACIOUS, AND ALSO IF ONE GOES UP, ONE MUZ COME DOWN !!