Posts tagged: public transport
It is “very rare” for a broken clip to drop off, she said. SMRT has encountered three other incidents in the last four years.
I don’t know what’s “very rare” these days.
Yahoo! News:
Many commuters have also complained about SMRT’s bad communication of the disruption.
Skyee Alfonso said, “Bus bridging service was only activated after an hour. No instruction and no help was given by SMRT staff to show the commuter where to take the buses.”
Themis Thng agreed and added, “Commuters at Raffles Place MRT Station did not even know about train service (being) down as the on screen panel only reflects “Do not board”. No station master at the station telling them also. No announcement heard either.”
This worries me. The second breakdown this week and they’ve yet to get their corporate communications in order. I really fear for any emergency.
It looks as if SMRT has no effective emergency commuter-management SOPs.
Conspiracy theory no?
Is this true? SMRTTaxi sent this msg: Income opportunity. Dear partners, there is a breakdown in our MRT train services twitter.com/xinnhuii/statu…
— XinHui Lim (@xinnhuii) December 15, 2011
Flag down fares will also go up by 20 cents across its ComfortDelGro’s fleet of 15,600 cabs here, while distance fares will be increased by 2 cents. Advance booking fees will also be increased by $8 to encourage more drivers to accept such bookings. The S$3 city area surcharge, which is currently in effect between 5pm and midnight from Monday to Saturday, will be extended to included Sundays and Public Holidays as well.
Peak period surcharge, meanwhile, will be reduced from the current 35 per cent to 25 per cent of the metered fare. It will, however, be extended to Sundays and Public Holidays.
Booking fees will also come down from the current S$3.50 during peak periods and S$2.50 at all other times, to S$3.30 during peak periods and S$2.30 at all other times.
Great. Just great. All surcharges will be in-effect on Sundays and Public Holidays too.
The Land Transport Authority (LTA) will carry out a comprehensive review of current bus service levels which will be completed by the fourth quarter of this year.
Mr Lui said he envisaged that the public transport operators having significantly more buses and bus captains added to the existing fleet of about 4,000 buses.
He said how the government can help the operators grow their bus fleet and captains in a sustainable manner will also be carefully studied.
But Mr Lui admits that it will take some 12-18 months to get the new buses and, in the meantime, recruit and train more bus captains.
Makes me wonder what have the regulators been doing over the past 12-18 months. Caught off-guard again?
