No Porn Lui Die Die Wants to Hike Bus Fare!

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<TD vAlign=top width=784 colSpan=2>Fare increases needed to improve service to commuters, says Lui Tuck Yew
By Hetty Musfirah | Posted: 13 December 2012 1648 hrs
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SINGAPORE: Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew has said the purpose of public transport fare increases is not to boost the short-term profits of operators or just to improve bus drivers' salaries.

Referring to his comments last week on how fares may go up to help raise drivers' salaries, Mr Lui said in a Facebook post on Thursday that increases are to improve service to commuters while keeping operations commercially viable.

He said the government is fully committed to an affordable public transport system.

To ramp up capacity and bring about further improvements in service in the public transport system, Mr Lui said more bus drivers and higher salaries are required.

And a concerted and sustained effort is needed to upgrade the profession - partly to attract more locals.

Of the 7,500 bus drivers today, nearly six in 10 are locals. It's a sharp decline from six years ago, where it was eight in 10.

Mr Lui said salaries need to go up, well beyond the one-time increase earlier this year which raised salaries by up to a few hundred dollars a month.

Such requirements are costly for operators who also face rising energy costs.

Mr Lui said "somebody has to pay for these costs" - be it commuters in fares, taxpayers in government subsidies or the operator. So a proper balance needs to be studied very carefully.

He said taking the populist approach of avoiding fare increases completely and pushing it onto public transport operators will give the operators no incentive to be efficient and provide better service for commuters.

Mr Lim Biow Chuan, Member of GPC for Transport, said: "If there is a fare increase, then how does that benefit everyone concerned, not just the transport operators but also the commuters, because I'm quite certain that the public transport operators are also under a certain amount of pressure to make sure that they improve their delivery in terms of faster turnover in providing buses.

"So currently I think the bus enhancement scheme is to make the transport operators have a shorter waiting time for all commuters, and I think that benefits all commuters."

Observers said if fares increase, operators should also be subjected to stricter quality of service standards.

Mr Lui said when granting any fare increase, the government needs to ensure operators re-invest part of this revenue to improve the public transport system to benefit commuters.

As fares increase, he said, the government will also have to play a larger role to keep the public transport system affordable, in particular, for the disabled and the lower and middle-income groups.

He said there will be a fuller debate in Parliament when the fare review committee completes its work early next year.

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[I_Hate_Pappies]

Talk so much for fuck ah?:oIo: Just increase the fares and be prepared to see a lower vote count in 2016.:oIo:

On behalf of those public transport takers, YOU ARE WELCOME!

 

[winnipegjets]

Just pure hog-wash. Fares have been going up in the last few years, yet there is nothing to show for. Crowded bus and reduced frequency is the norm.

This increase just pump up the bottom line for the bus companies. It is time to introduce true competition. If Hong Kong can have competing bus companies plus mini-bus competition, why can't sinkapore?

Stop the crap and introduce true competition and allow private mini-bus to ply routes as well. Then the commuters will benefit.

 

[batman1]

IF No Porn Lui still kuai-Lan Iron Teeth want to increase bus fares against the commuters,hope someone chop off his dick like Seng Han Tong kenna disfigured.

 

[tualingong]

do you know in china bus fares hardly ever increase.

depending on the cities. it ranges from less than a dollar to two.

for more than ten years now.

public transportation should have public prices mah.

 

[Prometheus888]

so on top of having the public provide the bail out billions for the purchase of new buses for these public listed companies, the bus drivers' pay is now the excuse for increasing the profit margins of these companies.

if these companies are so inefficient in providing public services in a duopoly, then why is it that the billions of public funds which were funnelled to them were not used instead to buy up all their stock and take them private?

We are supposed to have a champion civil service so I am sure these inefficiencies could be solved. Besides the country claims to be doing so well and making billions right? spare some of it and provide a public good instead of throwing money away

 

[halsey02]

We will agree to the bus fares increases as long as NO PORN Lui salary is peg on the average salaries of what the PRC gets! ha ha ha ha

 

[harris88]

We will agree to the bus fares increases as long as NO PORN Lui salary is peg on the average salaries of what the PRC gets! ha ha ha ha

not for him self under instruction from hojink can any one remember smart bus comes from where, now only smart wayang with support of big names

 

[Cestbon]

Bcos Punggol will have by election I guess fare hike will be delay.

 

[watchman8]

He die die must increase bus fare to mask the effect of $1bn subsidy given to the bus operators.

Imagine if bus fare stays the same, but after the $1bn subsidy kicked in and bus operators profits increase significantly. How to explain?

 

[Brightkid]

As long as the management of SMRT is being paid humogous salaries, and the company is making ever-increasing profits year-after-year, I wonder what moral standard, if any, does a minister able to tell the commuters to pay more to solve the company's self-created problems.

Since it is a public-listed company, SMRT need to fend for itself (of course it is not necessary to work so hard as the govt/PTC are all their supporters). Investment in efficient buses, customer servcie, cost-reduction....etc, are all part and parcel of management's responsibility to ensure company is viable, not increase fares at the slightest opportunity, worst suggested by a minister (who was 'voted' by and to 'serve' the citizenry!) even before the company said anything!

If SMRT cannot efficient and economically operate the services, get others who can do a better job (similar to the minister's job)!

Amazing Sinkipore!

 

[jubilee1919]

Punggol/Sengkang is far up north and those staying there will be affected by any increase. By mentioning it, Fcuk Yu will make them more unhappy and it will show in the BE.

 

[streetsmart73]

hi there


1. no eye see!
2. this is the besterest the no-porn thing can do.
3. the only solution : 2016!
4. get the damn fugly face out.

 

[KNNBCCB]

huat ahhhhhh

 

[Kuailan]

Good for nothing only knows how to increase fare,
that means even Primary 1 student also can become Ministers
anything happened increase fare!! Traffic Jam increase ERP!!
Ppl rush to buy cars Increase COE only know how to screw peasants (60%)
who vote u in! 2016 we'll vote u out!

 

[ThugSin]

his lan jiao bin already tio langa by bx...

 

[laksaboy]

No choice. Lui Fuck Yew takes instructions from above. Those above him tells him to raise fares, so he meekly and obediently nods his head.

 

[sleaguepunter]

increase fare is a good idea to punish the 60.1% great idea, lui fark yew shd inform the PTC to implement the fare increase asap.