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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->EVERY morning while driving along North Bridge Road to enter the Central Business District, I see cars, especially taxis, driving across the double white lines along the middle of this road just before the traffic junction with Rochor Road.
Cars and taxis that enter Fraser Street, after dropping their passengers at Parkview Square, are inevitably trapped and cannot avoid the Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantry and have to pay $2.50 if they do not wish to break the traffic rule.
I do not think any taxi driver would want to pay this money for nothing. This is a bad rule. Yet no taxi company has alerted the authorities to this anomaly and their drivers not only break the rule but may also cause accidents.
Lim Jit Chaing
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->EVERY morning while driving along North Bridge Road to enter the Central Business District, I see cars, especially taxis, driving across the double white lines along the middle of this road just before the traffic junction with Rochor Road.
Cars and taxis that enter Fraser Street, after dropping their passengers at Parkview Square, are inevitably trapped and cannot avoid the Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantry and have to pay $2.50 if they do not wish to break the traffic rule.
I do not think any taxi driver would want to pay this money for nothing. This is a bad rule. Yet no taxi company has alerted the authorities to this anomaly and their drivers not only break the rule but may also cause accidents.
Lim Jit Chaing
