Increase in transport fares? NEVER!!!!

In case you guys had been wondering how come I got time to write this blog, it would be good to know that i will not have to go to school on monday because i will not have any test at all on monday. Great news isn't it.

Anyway, in case you are wondering what this post will be about, it will be a continuation of one my older post, namely April's fool joke... If you happen to not know what that post is about, or you are simply too lazy to check, here is the main gist of that post:

The bus service around here has been made more incovenient by the very fact that they had phased out the buses and their stops, which means that you can't wait for all the buses in one stop. Other then that, the bus stop for most buses have been placed further away from the very end of that stretch of road, which now makes the traffic around that place even more inconvenient.

Now that you get the point...

SMRT is the company that is managing our transport system right? And what has happened recently? Another fare hike...

Ever since the recession had started, what do we see? We see that government linked company have a sudden fare hike, people are getting retrenched because of outsourcing effort by the government. Now then, another fare hike... This brings me to my next point.

Remember what i said about the thing about inconvinience. Now then, if there is a fare hike, it should only be logical that the service should be better since we pay more. But this isn't logical, especially when the service had just became worse.

Look at what i am doing, i am running two bus stops length everytime i need to catch a bus which unfortunately is stupid. Other then that, many buses go the same route, so you could just wait at one bus stop and see which one come first.

But no, the transport system hates anyone who is fickle. " We should be strong and be able to carry out what we want to achieve" Sure this does make sense, but isn't it stupid that the company have to waste consumers time by making them wait at separate bus stop almost 200m apart for some buses that will allow the consumer to arrive at the same spot?

What is so bad about the old transportation system? Ya, i know that we have to be like the mouse in the "Who moved my cheese?" , that we should change with the society. But this isn't the point. They are making the transportation system worse in a place that could be already be said to be the most unconnected place of Singapore.

Lets get some adjectives to describe the situation:
1) The company, SMRT is stupid
2) They think that by making them feel inconvinient for a while would change after they get used to it
3) They think that newcomers in the neighbourhood would be shocked by the transportation system and that a fare hike would help change the situation
4) They are trying to protest as they are trying to say :"see, no fare hike and we give you this..."

Other then that, there is this equation that talks about how to increase the fares. Well, they should add one more criteria, whether or not they had done a good job or not.

Thus from reading this post, and if SMRT is reading as well...(Hello! Hello!, do you listen to the public? Feel their disapproval!!!) You would know that a fare hike, regardless of whether or not the economic outlook is good or not, should never happen until the very day where they get their service attitude right...

That should be quite enough...

Discmon