rooney, whatever you call it, peak pricing or off-peak discount.
it is still income discrimination.
Congestion pricing only means that those who can AFFORD it..
gets to travel at a convenient time.
That only results lowering poorer commuters' quality of
life.
Imagine you are a busy working parent.. and you need to send and
fetch your child to and from school, will you rather pay the higher
fee or be late ? or spend less time with your family to save
several hundreds of dollars per year ?
Or you are a student that needs to travel to school during peak
hours, what will you do ? wake up at 4am just to avoid the higher
rate ? What happens to your quality of life ?
When public transports is the ONLY means of transport for a
person, this kind of pricing scheme greatly impacts the common
commuter.
Congestion pricing is discriminatory, else it
will never work.
no lar, where got need to wake up at 4am one lol. those who woke
up at 4am, reporting time for work is either 5 or 5.30am
or even 6am. if you dun like discriminatory pricing, then how about
increasing more trains, like every train at every 2 mins. how about
mrt or sbs providing more express bus and opening many routes then,
instead of the fare as $3, how about charging at $2?
how about rewarding commuters that those early commuters taking
trains from 6.30am to 7.30am, discount of 20-30% of fare. if not,
try double deck carriages lar lol. arbo dig more underground and
then have another circle line project lol.
