one hundred dollar fine for SMRT

one hundred dollar fine for SMRT

oh my god. SMRT has been fined a princely sum of one hundred dollars. SGD100.00. i tried to make it look slightly higher but i failed. sorry. if this isn’t a joke, I don’t know what is.

SMRT was fined $100 for one instance in which one of its services was found to be overcrowded.

wow. that’s such a tremendous dent in the pockets of SMRT which made profits of 42 million dollars in just Quarter 1 of 2009 alone. a helpful netizen did some math and found out here that it only accounted for 0.00024% of the said profits. That was only one instance SMRT was convicted of over-crowding from June 1 to Nov 30 2008. See people, you guys enjoy the world’s best train system. Only one instance over a period of 5 months for over-crowding.

Assuming that SMRT was consistently late everyday in the year, that would only account for a mighty 0.0876% of Q1 2009 profits. No wonder SMRT cannot be bothered to clean up its act and implement a train schedule that is more packed with trains. After all, paying the fine is infinitely so much cheaper than paying for an increased train schedule.

SBS Transit had it worse. It was fined a mighty $4500.00 for some cases of overcrowding and long waiting times. wow. That was such a big dent in the pocket for SBS Transit too. Probably the monthly wage of just 3 drivers. Do you now wonder why they cannot be bothered to increase bus frequencies also? I’ve also noticed that on some bus services, frequency for peak hours is lower than frequency for non-peak hours. Amazing.

I forgot to mention that the fines came out of the profits raked from consumers. In short, consumers paid for the fines, while continuing to suffer from low frequencies, over-crowded trains and long waiting times for both buses and MRTs.

Well done, Public Transport Council. That fine was really productive. Oh sorry, I forgot. That was symbolic lah.The fines would have struck fear into the consumer-oriented SMRT and SBS Transit, hence they will 100% clean up their act to prevent themselves from being fined again in the future.

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