from the looks of things, anybody/ any company out there interested to tender for transportation license & services via air (helicopter) & sea (sampan/tongkang) ?? surely no need to pay for ERP
That's the price for voting PAP
See, I was right. Over the weekend saw the news that Chinatown business dropped by 50%!
from the looks of things, anybody/ any company out there interested to tender for transportation license & services via air (helicopter) & sea (sampan/tongkang) ?? surely no need to pay for ERP
Really a sad case bro.........guess more to come:(
No one force car owner to drve thru ERP. Those cannot afford should no buy car. Pay car installment, insurance,parking, maintenance, fuel cost, ERP ...... monthly average $1K to $1.5K for the average car on the road.
my next guess, NTUC (comfort delgro) will be bidding for it...But bro, u might need to pay air space.....hehe
very soon, even taking lifts in the HDB will also have biometric ERP.i Now become fed up, even sat also ERP, they suck our money dry. change from car to public transport.
I'm not sure how many of you are affected..... but with the Saturday implementation is really a pain in the butt ...... as I thought originally ERP was to help ease congestion for business during peak hours and mainly 5 days working days for the masses.
With the new implementation, I found that now it does not make sense to get into town and as it cost $2 to get in..... and since I live just outside of town, all the routes that I'm so used to either gets jammed up due to all the rest trying to avoid the ERP or I found that the shortest way that I'm so used to can't be accessed anymore and had to go a big round just to get to my destination especially when its just on the opposite side but outside the ERP zone (or else I pay $2 twice - do and back! either that or spend more on the petrol!).
I also wonder how much it affects the businesses inside town that will lose customer like me ... like I use to go to Cold Storage Selegie - now I go to the Leisue Dome instead....
imagine all car owners scrap their cars, then the car retail biz slumps, putting lotsa car salesmen/women outta jobs. while every1 have their family outings via public transports. i cant imagine how the public transportation can handle the wkend commuters. combined w the FTs & skilled laborers r also out in full force on wkends, we'll soon see ppl stacking themselves on the roof of buses n trains, while others grab onto the tail boards.... in order to get from pt A to B on wkends/public holidays.
2 dollars up till 8pm on saturday is quite ridiculous.
also parking has already gone up to 80c per half hour in some public carparks.
I'm not sure how many of you are affected..... but with the Saturday implementation is really a pain in the butt ...... as I thought originally ERP was to help ease congestion for business during peak hours and mainly 5 days working days for the masses.
With the new implementation, I found that now it does not make sense to get into town and as it cost $2 to get in..... and since I live just outside of town, all the routes that I'm so used to either gets jammed up due to all the rest trying to avoid the ERP or I found that the shortest way that I'm so used to can't be accessed anymore and had to go a big round just to get to my destination especially when its just on the opposite side but outside the ERP zone (or else I pay $2 twice - do and back! either that or spend more on the petrol!).
I also wonder how much it affects the businesses inside town that will lose customer like me ... like I use to go to Cold Storage Selegie - now I go to the Leisue Dome instead....
I beg to differon 1 hand, they wanna sell more than cars... they wanna sell papers - called COE.
then, they fear congestion, so they introduce ERP to moderate/ deter traffic, which is ironic, cos majority of sgporeans dont buy cars for fun.... there're pragmatic reasons in having 1.
The suburban malls that are located in the heartland sells stuff that are pretty much the same as those in town as most of them are franchises or chains store. Unless going for those upmarket stuff such as LV or Burberrys etc, then there isn't a need to go into town. Businesses to a certain extend will be hit because of the ERP, Chinatown is a good example. Whether if there is a reduction to S$1.00 or even S$0.50. Any drivers that sees the ERP gantry lights on will avoid going in, irregardless of the charges.