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April 18th, 2011 |
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As the GE draws near, the PAP is trying all it can to shoot down the manifestos of the opposition parties. The latest salvo shot by Ms Lim Hwee Hua about the cost of public transport, merely shows that the PAP has no real answers to the questions raised by the opposition.
In many instances, the PAP ministers use extreme examples to support their arguments, while asking us to use faulty logic to see the faulty wisdom in their arguments.
Recognizing that the market in Singapore is vastly different, where the majority of the people are ¡®forced¡¯ to use public transport, since the PAP limits car ownership (with COEs).
When a government pushes the people to the public transport route, it would logically be incumbent upon the government to provide cheap and efficient public transport.
Yes, competition does force companies to offer higher levels of service, only if there is true and free competition. However, in the public transport arena in Singapore, there is NO free competition. Bus companies, train companies are all government owned.
If the PAP did really want to improve service levels, they should allow free competition, where private operators ply the roads. Allowing any operator to choose the times they would like to operate, and which routes they would like to operate. Any businessman would make sure that he would have to fulfill the public¡¯s concerns to have a viable operating model, should it be service standards, timings and routes.
Unfortunately, the public transport companies today, are all government linked. Overseen by the Public Transport Council (PTC), also a government run body. In many other countries, this would be seen as a cartel, a monopolistic operation. One that can determine it¡¯s own level of service quality and fare structure, and yet, will not lose any business nor go bankrupt. What¡¯s worse, is that being ¡®privatized¡¯, it¡¯s focus would be on revenue generation.
Two transport companies operation, both owned by the government, does not equal competition!
Let¡¯s not forget how monopolies think. Remember the time of SingTel, and what the cost of international calls, handphones and internet services, and how they were priced? This is already clearly demonstrated with the daily overcrowding of buses and trains. Where the transport companies do not even fulfill it¡¯s obligation to provide the most basic of service standards.
What we have now, is a disguised nationalized public transport system, but one that is revenue driven.
It is indeed shameful that we are paying Ms Lim Hwee Hua millions of dollars, and for this price, cannot even put forward a sound argument why public transport costs are high, and still rising.
It is even more shameful that for all the talent that the PAP touts itself to have, it does not by the PAP¡¯s own admission, have someone good enough to ensure the service levels of public transport be maintained, should public transport be nationalized.
Maybe we should ask Ms Lim Hwee Hwa to run the bus and MRT companies. If she cannot run them at as ¡®neutral revenue¡¯ business, with some service levels, when there is no competition, how then can she say she¡¯s fit enough to be a minister running a country? Also, with her assertion that competition brings about levels of service, how come they never apply that to politics? Or is it just a selective argument, only when it suits them?
With the latest salvo shot by Ms Lim Hwee Hua, all she has done is shot herself in the foot.
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Tom F U
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As the GE draws near, the PAP is trying all it can to shoot down the manifestos of the opposition parties. The latest salvo shot by Ms Lim Hwee Hua about the cost of public transport, merely shows that the PAP has no real answers to the questions raised by the opposition.
Recognizing that the market in Singapore is vastly different, where the majority of the people are ¡®forced¡¯ to use public transport, since the PAP limits car ownership (with COEs).
When a government pushes the people to the public transport route, it would logically be incumbent upon the government to provide cheap and efficient public transport.
Yes, competition does force companies to offer higher levels of service, only if there is true and free competition. However, in the public transport arena in Singapore, there is NO free competition. Bus companies, train companies are all government owned.
If the PAP did really want to improve service levels, they should allow free competition, where private operators ply the roads. Allowing any operator to choose the times they would like to operate, and which routes they would like to operate. Any businessman would make sure that he would have to fulfill the public¡¯s concerns to have a viable operating model, should it be service standards, timings and routes.
Unfortunately, the public transport companies today, are all government linked. Overseen by the Public Transport Council (PTC), also a government run body. In many other countries, this would be seen as a cartel, a monopolistic operation. One that can determine it¡¯s own level of service quality and fare structure, and yet, will not lose any business nor go bankrupt. What¡¯s worse, is that being ¡®privatized¡¯, it¡¯s focus would be on revenue generation.
Two transport companies operation, both owned by the government, does not equal competition!
Let¡¯s not forget how monopolies think. Remember the time of SingTel, and what the cost of international calls, handphones and internet services, and how they were priced? This is already clearly demonstrated with the daily overcrowding of buses and trains. Where the transport companies do not even fulfill it¡¯s obligation to provide the most basic of service standards.
What we have now, is a disguised nationalized public transport system, but one that is revenue driven.
It is indeed shameful that we are paying Ms Lim Hwee Hua millions of dollars, and for this price, cannot even put forward a sound argument why public transport costs are high, and still rising.
It is even more shameful that for all the talent that the PAP touts itself to have, it does not by the PAP¡¯s own admission, have someone good enough to ensure the service levels of public transport be maintained, should public transport be nationalized.
Maybe we should ask Ms Lim Hwee Hwa to run the bus and MRT companies. If she cannot run them at as ¡®neutral revenue¡¯ business, with some service levels, when there is no competition, how then can she say she¡¯s fit enough to be a minister running a country? Also, with her assertion that competition brings about levels of service, how come they never apply that to politics? Or is it just a selective argument, only when it suits them?
With the latest salvo shot by Ms Lim Hwee Hua, all she has done is shot herself in the foot.
.
Tom F U
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