Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Getting ridiculous!
now, our government wants to legislate law to fine fare cheats (people who underpay when taking the bus/taxi). wtf??? can you believe it?? this is what happens when a privatised company is owned by the government (er.. or its extended investment arm, whatever). and i haven't even start bitching about why public transport companies are privatised in the first place yet!! bloody hell!! so how? how are they going to enforce it once it is implemented? every bus route to include a police post stop to drop off 'suspected' fare cheats?? or the drivers have to multi-task and focus more on the bus company's bottomline than to concentrate on driving safely?? this is so ridiculous. since implementing the EZ-Link system, - by the way, one of the few initial objectives of implementing this multi-million dollar system was to reduce incidences of 'fare cheats' - there were sooooooooooooooooooo many cases of passengers being OVERCHARGED due to a glitch in the system. and what happen?? the passengers have to take the trouble to go to specific stations to 'reclaim' the overcharged value. nevermind the long queues at passengers' expense, nevermind the 'claims' need to be 'looked into' and took days to weeks to be 'approved'. but did they even SAY SORRY FOR OVERCHARGING??? you wait long long!! 1 country, 2 systems! you kenna overcharged, too bad. you underpay, pay fine or go to jail!a parent wrote in to the media to complain about her 12 year-old daughter being abandoned a few bus stops before her house because she was $0.30 short of the bus fare! and she has to walked back to her house after that. can you imagine that??? NO MERCY EVEN FOR A KID! i hope all these bastard drivers and bus companies' personnel get a taste of their own medicine one day. to the bus drivers : you won't like it if your kids are treated this way. how safe is singapore?? you're god-damn sure the kids won't get kidnapped? smuggled out of sg to be sold? won't get into road accidents at all?and to the bus coys' personnel : bloody hell! if you people were to just get down from your ivory tower to be in touch with reality, you won't be pushing for such idiotic, stoopid law!
