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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I WISH to highlight another aspect of SMRT's bureaucratic behaviour.
It is regarding an incident that happened yesterday at 8am at Kembangan station. I had to collect my passport at the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority building and I decided to ride my scooter to the train station before taking the short 10-minute train ride there.
I have always noticed motorcycles parked near the station, together with bicycles, without incident and had assumed SMRT allowed this. I returned at 8.40am to find a Notification of Offence, which stated I had infringed Regulation 44.
The other motorcycles did not receive a parking ticket and I found out from the control station staff that it was because those vehicles belonged to the staff and were therefore exempted from any penalty.
How would members of the public know that only SMRT staff are allowed to park on the unmarked pavement? If there is no problem with obstruction, why not carve out more areas with clearly labelled spaces for others who wish to park there?
SMRT staff should not be allowed to pick on the smallest transgressions by the public while overlooking similar behaviour by station staff.
I have attached a photo of the motorcycles: Mine is the white Vespa on the right.
Tan Loong Tze
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I WISH to highlight another aspect of SMRT's bureaucratic behaviour.
It is regarding an incident that happened yesterday at 8am at Kembangan station. I had to collect my passport at the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority building and I decided to ride my scooter to the train station before taking the short 10-minute train ride there.
I have always noticed motorcycles parked near the station, together with bicycles, without incident and had assumed SMRT allowed this. I returned at 8.40am to find a Notification of Offence, which stated I had infringed Regulation 44.
The other motorcycles did not receive a parking ticket and I found out from the control station staff that it was because those vehicles belonged to the staff and were therefore exempted from any penalty.
How would members of the public know that only SMRT staff are allowed to park on the unmarked pavement? If there is no problem with obstruction, why not carve out more areas with clearly labelled spaces for others who wish to park there?
SMRT staff should not be allowed to pick on the smallest transgressions by the public while overlooking similar behaviour by station staff.
I have attached a photo of the motorcycles: Mine is the white Vespa on the right.
Tan Loong Tze
