What you are
saying is that ERP works by marginalising the poor to take public
transport. To a certain extent, ERP may deter some from driving to
work. However, as we can see as driver on the road, ERP DOES NOT
reduce traffic flow at all. This is a real problem and not one just
to condemn the system as it is costly for us drivers. If you would
bother to look around, the problem of traffic jams are very real.
It is a daily occurance.
If ERP are able to reduce traffic jams, I would think that lesser
of us would complain day in day out. But ERP does not solve
anything, resulting in all of us lesser mortals to think of it as a
myth.
It is common logic that if our dearest government wants to collect
more taxes from cars, they would at last have to give us back
something in the form of better network of roads (not a white
elephant like KPE), wider road, reasonable laws to keep out those
farking road hoggers who drive at 90km/hr at the 1st lane and does
not think that giving way to vehicles to overtake is correct as
they are within the speed limit. Idiotic motorcycles who take up
2-3 lanes at the same time. Lorries who overtake you then slow to
almost a complete halt, etc. It is because of people like these who
caused a huge empty space on the road and refuses to let others
fill up the space. If you can imagine. Should we be able to fill up
more of the road, we can move more vehicles. Shouldn't our stupid
"traffic police" do more than just make themselves invisible and
take photos to earn commission? If need be, we can employ our own
photographer to take nicer pictures of our cars. Thank you.
There are simply easier ways to solve our traffic problems. It is
just that our dearest government who is so UP THERE that they chose
to employ a more profitable one.
Not really better, just that they
don't pay me to do their jobs for them. I don't draw millions of
dallars.
Just to let you know. If you take
public transport, you wont feel our agony. Similarly, if you want
to resign yourself to take public transport all your life, nobody
will stop you. Just try to see things from other people's point at
times. By sticking to your own view only, you will only distance
yourself from the rest.
traffic jams is a fact of life. If you are expecting no traffic
jam, that is being unrealistics. There are basically 2 ways to view
traffic jam.
1) more roads (They are building. They are always building, if
you realised)
2) less cars (high car maintainance, cost, ERP, stuff like
that.)
yah, obviously i won't feel your agony, but i thought that this
is a forum to share ideas and opinions. You feel ERP don't work
enough for me, I said i don't know. I am not sure what will happen
if the ERP is turned off today.
P.S. I only read the red part, which was in nice paragraphs. the
rest i only skim through as it looked like a whole chunk.