'Quitters' contributed by PAP? our ruling party?

NuLife SG

Personally I think so.
The lack of freedom, democracy, an over-powering ruling party
and its policies are some of the reasons why we have so many "quitters".

And those who left , many are really talented individuals,
who sees the flaws in PAP policies,
who are smart enough not to be brain-washed.
who feel Spore is not a place for non-elite with talents to live, etc etc

boyish love SG

i heard pap offsprings are quiters too. Laughing

ditzy SG

You saying somebody's daughter issit? Laughing

sbst275 SG

So you mean WP manifesto all right?

Calling for a destructive feeder bus compeition

I wonder have they done their sums

Usually 1 feeder bus sv operated by SBS or SMRT, the ridership is more or less fixed everyday. Allowing compeition only splits the passengers up

Another thing, some bus interchanges can no longer allow more services to be introduced as like at Toa Payoh or Tampines as of lack of berths

Say Sv X has an avg of 20,000 passengers a day, based on the avg $0.50 as some have transfer rebate, fare collected is $10,000. If the op cost to profit ratio is 7:3, the cost is $7,000

Now there's compeition, it's either I reduce the fleet which defeats WP's yesterday speech of creating more jobs

If they go head on by keeping the fleet, ridership may reduce as much as to 10,000, by now my revenue collected is $5,000 a day. SBS now makes a loss from this, may I know isn't this causing fare hike as well? Question

ditzy SG

They are WP, not PTC, not SMRT, not SBST, they are just WP. Laughing

sbst275 SG

Even if it's WP, how can they come with a manifesto that ends up ppl believe in that's not economically viable? Question

ditzy SG

The manifesto never ask you to go and believe, it is up to you, the reader to read, and decide if it makes sense. Laughing If it doesn't make sense to you, its nonsense, never ask you to believe. Remember, you have a choice!

boyish love SG

where is this feeder bus manifesto?

ditzy SG

Beats the fcuk out of me. Laughing Oei! sbst275, please make yourself clear, don't be another gomez.

sbst275 SG

Any party would follow their manifesto

But of course I'm not saying PAP's is all right, education system is 1 agenda

ditzy SG

So WP set the standard and benchmark, pap copy them right? Except pap got pictures right? Laughing

LazerLordz SG

Because it should have been the case for public transport to be PUBLIC. Not some whitewash of a faint sense of affected welfare. Rolling Eyes

sbst275 SG

Didn't you read the news?

Also, it's available here on page 36: http://www.wp.sg/ge2006/pdf/wp_manifesto_2006.pdf

"Inter-town feeder bus services should be de-regulated to allow indv private operators as in the case of the mini-bus system in Hong Kong. The high mobility and relatively low overheads of the private operators would give them the flexibility to effectively meet the requirements of the local residents"

sbst275 SG

If 1 operator has no objective be it to make profits, they wun find cost effective measures to keep cost low. The way it's going on, they are willing to let the buses be losing money

boyish love SG

actually the priv bus ok idea wat. just those ferrying from various parts of singapore not covered under sbs feeder bus. some priv condo got provide from mrt to their condo.

it can mabe affect ntc bottem line but they already make so much profits and still want to raise fares..after election..

got competition good. also this can help opposition wards where ruling party play tricks to devalue wards to "punish" non voters.

sbst275 SG

Ferrying from pte condo, the condo mgmt has arranged mini shuttle buses like Maplewoods

NTC? They are asking for pte operators to come in

Compeition is good? The number of passengers is fixed, any action is just to split the passengers. Also, are you willing to fork the cost of expanding some bus interchanges for this?

boyish love SG

i think the point is they talk about minibus can also say shuttlebus. mabe your idea is that same big sbs feeder bus.

sbst275 SG

"As in the case of"... The idea is just like the Scheme B pte buses in Singapore

Certain feeder bus svs, if they use mini bus, I think the passengers will be complaining. Some svs like 242, 291 which runs at 2-4 mins frequency even has to use double decks

boyish love SG

here is an idea. i think if provide more choice for commuters why not. got so many taxi company came up...

sbst275 SG

Why not?

You want a bus stop that is forever clogged with empty buses as like in the 1970's?

Taxi, you think the cab co care? The cabbie just rent the cab from them