ERPs and Neighbours
a short while since i last posted...sc helping me swat flies..thanks!! cleaned up my blog..hahaanyway...i read a newspaper article...actually 2 articles...which i wanna comment on....
1st...nearer to home (literally) is the ERP gantry they are setting up at BKE towards PIE, right after the Dairy Farm Road.
One word for this move "CRAP!!" the timing proposed for this gantry for vehicles to pay money is during peak hours, 7.30am - 9am if i'm not wrong, weekdays. This move is to actually curb the flow of traffic during peak hours....i pity those people needa go town from north west district..who have to go via the route: BKE - PIE - CTE (maybe)...they'll b paying lots for the ERP charges...
anyway..back to curbing the traffic...i tink it's something that shd not b done this way...now...lets say i wan to go work from my house to orchard for instance...normally...go BKE then PIE then orchard...max is onli 2 gantries...one on PIE the other at orchard. now...3 gantries...add the BKE wan in...zzzz...
so wat i do?? i go by bt timah road...all the way to orchard...via stevens road...take me longer time..but i can skip paying the gantry money but my petrol consumption goes up..anyway...the petrol consumption is not the point i wanna say...
now..wat if there are many ppl tinking the same way as me?? skip the gantries and go by bt timah....then wont bt timah road be more congested than it's already is??? then wat to do to curb this traffic?? install more gantries along bt timah road lor!!! wat to do... (anyway...newspaper article did say to expect more gantries near neighbourhoods le...warning to all who drives or takes cabs)
like tat...might as well install gantries at every traffic junction lah...or in front of the carpark entrances..to curb traffic on the roads...crap lah...
if wan singaporeans to take public transport...by making car ownership more ex...doesnt realli solve the prob too...next time will complain bout public transport...for now..is erp...
ya...so that concludes my ERP part...making us pay so much....next time all cycle go work (as wat wy said)
2nd...is our neighbouring country...msia...is now a dangerous place to go...esp JB which is more accessible to singaporeans...a guy got slashed and beaten up...and carjacked...n guess where??? right in front of the police station....best....this fella...a regular to msia..cos of business (no choice) went in at 3am to eat supper wif his wife (supper so late..at 3am)...topped up his car petrol at a petrol kiosk beside the police station...cos he knows the robbery situation in msia....but who knows..kanna carjacked at that point plus got injuries...fingers nearly severed...n i must say that he is lucky neva die...
3am..in front of police station...policeman sleeping lah...so still not safe wan lah...
haiz...even my msian frens (excluding zm) and my msian cousins all wanna shift out of that country le.....but singaporeans wan to do the opposite..go in for cheap deals...which may costs more than cheap...
go figure!
posted by Seng @ 16:39
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