PAP giving our money away to cronies

[winnipegjets]

LTA rewards $1.34m to SBS Transit and $504k to SMRT for improving bus waiting times

SINGAPORE - Public bus operators SBS Transit and SMRT have been rewarded for improving waiting times of buses, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced on Monday (May 9).

The Bus Service Reliability Framework (BSRF) trial took place from June to November last year and covered 34 bus services. 27 of them achieved good wait times with regularly spread out bus arrivals.

LTA added that both operators have sustained improvements in reliability through enhanced management of the bus fleet and the hiring of more service controllers.

According to the statement, SBS Transit earned $12,440 per service per month for reliability improvements for 18 services while SMRT earned $12,000 per service per month for improvements across seven services.

In total, SBS Transit earned about $1.34 million while SMRT earned $504,000.

Meanwhile, new bus service 308 serving Choa Chu Kang will be launched on Sunday (May 15). One more new service will be introduced during the mid-year in Bedok and Tampines.

This latest update follows LTA's announcement that nine new bus services were introduced in the first quarter of the year. They are SBS Transit Services 134, 150 and 382G/W, SMRT Service 805 and City Direct Services 666, 667, 668, 669 and 670.

Besides additional services to shorten bus waiting times and overcrowding, 15 more buses were deployed to 13 existing services in the first quarter. This added 185 weekly peak-hour bus trips.

LTA added that the operators also improved seven bus services by deploying higher capacity buses along sectors with heavy ridership.

This provided another 35 weekly peak-hour trips.

 

[winnipegjets]

Since the PAP Press won't dare to criticize the stupidity of the PAP and its wasteful spending of our money (or deliberately channelling our tax dollars to cronies), we should fulfill the role of the 5th Estate.

These two bus companies have monopolies ...and the PAP is rewarding them, after giving them monopolies. So, if you want money from the PAP, just screw up even when you have been given a monopoly, and the government will reward you for making baby steps improvement. What was the service level expectation when the monopoly was given to these bus companies? These bus companies should be penalized for not meeting service level standards instead of us forking out more money to appease them.

Also, those baby-step improvements are also due to use of more buses, which are paid for with your tax dollars.

PAP rewards incompetence!

 

[jw5]

Don't worry, they will give a portion back to you in the form of transport rebates or vouchers if you ask them nicely for it. At the very least. they may delay the upcoming fare increase so that you will feel happy that you delay spending more money.