Originally posted by hseochin:
If one were to observe the design of the checkpoint
complex & the roads leading into & out from it, much indeed
can & ought to be done to improve on them to increase traffic
discharge efficientcy (they can perhaps get some hints from the
giant size new Johor complex coming up just next door !) while
maintainng whatever perceived existing levels of 'stringent
security checks' !
They don't need to cramp all cars, buses, trucks into just a few
narrow discharge lanes before 'releasing' them onto the highways
here ! Are they trying to say that they only have 'so few' manpower
available to perform security duty that only these few men/women
can do the job that that's why they 'need' to squeeze everybody
thru the stupid bottlenecks ?!??
They really have 'no money' to hire more security staff, open more
counters, build more lanes etc. to do all the necessary to not only
maintain security but ALSO to improve both human & vehicular
traffic discharge efficiencies ?!??
I most honestly cannot believe that ! Surely they cannot just rely
on just those 'few' exisiting security staff to man the thousands
of people & vehicles passing in/out daily ! They can perhaps
learn something from the wide spread out concept used in the
Malaysian toll booths e.g. of spreading out the traffic such that
everybody is still 'inspected upon' before being 'passed' to go
i.e. nobody 'escapes' paying their tolls & what not ? Surely it
cannot mean that you must have just 2 or 3 narrow lanes then the
security is 'good' else with many more lanes the security 'drops'
?!?? That's nonsense logic because it's not asking the existing few
staff to mann many more lanes BUT to hire more new personnel to
mann the increased lanes instead ! The nett result in security
levels is practically the same except that more can be processed in
the same time ! Surely the Singapore Government is rich &
competent enough to acquire more such personnel to do the jobs ! No
funds is certainly no excuse here, if that's what they thinking of
saying !!!! No land here to build more spread out lanes they can
resort to building more multi-storey lanes instead. No excuses
!
It's only money involved, something they are well rich enough to
afford !!
Whatever those few security men/women are now doing surely they can
produce more such personnel thru more hiring & training etc.
such that each & everyone of them can produce the same standard
of work output WITHOUT compromising in overall security
'stringentness' !
The end result then is that whatever exisiting security levels are
maintained if not enhanced AND the same time improving on the human
& vehicular processing discharge rates hence processing
efficientcies thru their complex.
I don't think they need to wait for the new giant size Johor
complex to set the standard before learning from them ! Singapore
is supposed to be more 'advanced' & 'efficient'
etc.
Yes, much indeed can be done to improve the design of the Tuas
checkpoint AND efficiency of the immigration and security check
procedures indeed. But have you wondered why the usually efficient
and smart Singapore authorities have not taken steps to make this
improvement? Why spend money on hiring more manpower and
renovating/re-designing the immigration building and improving the
workflow when that will encourage more Singaporeans to spend money
overseas? Just keep to the same old ways, make it more inefficient
and jammed so that'll teach us Singaporeans not to venture over the
causeway. Put yourself in their shoes and you'll understand the
reason behind all this.
On the other hand, for Malaysian authorities, there's plenty of
reason to improve on their immigration efficiency => to
encourage more Singaporeans to go over and spend their SGD, thereby
improving the Malaysian economy.
Makes sense now, doesn't it?
