Every Tranport Minister say they will improve the transport
system.
They can only make changes, here and there, but the changes
always do not mean improvement. And always being in a different set
of problems.
Is the EZ-Link system an improvement? It only reverses the
problem of fare cheats.
It's an improvement over the plastic magnetic farecards.
Some decisons have proven to be unwise. For example, I think
that merging SMRT with TIBS was a bad, bad idea. Why? When the MRT
broke down in the nineties, both TIBS and SBS rushed to provide bus
bridging, because the MRT was under a statutory board, so neither
bus corporation had any commercial reason to not help.
But this time, because it was its own problem, SMRT had to
bridge the NSL. It apparently didn't have enough buses to do this
properly.
