finally, after wasting decades in trying to find a free market
model for public transport, the govt has conceded it has
failed....they've been constantly told sg was too small for such
practices but it fell on deaf ears....
mah bow tan as transport minister was very insistent about the need
for competition, in the end, it failed to dish out the world class
transport they were espousing....
upping the fares annually didn't improve the services except to
line the pockets of the major shareholders of the transport
operators.....
this also reflects that we have one minister too many, it wasn't
until the pm himself saw the packed trains while going to work one
day (as reported in the papers) that he decided to sort the
transport woes.....