Ok now i back for real. Term 3 Exams finally over! Today i will be talking about something quite related to our daily lives. The increase in certain aspects of bus fares so that those who ride long distance don't have to pay as much. However in my opinion this was a somewhat bad move made by the government.
In our modern society, people prefer to save time, and take faster transport. Most of the time, most of the people who travel long distance, would prefer to take bus to a MRT station then take MRT to their destination. For example, from Upper Bukit Timah to Jurong East it would take me 40-50 minutes by bus. With that time, i could travel from City Hall to Jurong East.
The mentality to waste less time and take the MRT is shared by most Singaporeans. For the working class, a few more cents wouldn't matter to them, both when taking MRT and bus. Their income would be more than enough to cover transport costs. However, the increase in bus fares affects one party the most - the elderly. Many elderly who stop working and have no income, live off from their CPF. However, they can only get so much money from their CPF every month. For the elderly, they tend to take the buses around for convenience sake to go buy groceries etc. This increase in bus fare may seem small at first glance, but for elderly people who take short distance bus rides and take bus very often, the small increase can amount to quite a large sum of money.
I fail to understand how the decrease in cost for the long distance rides resulted in the increase in cost for the short distance rides. If the government did it to encourage people to transfer bus more, i think that it is a dumb idea. Many of us have buses leading directly to bus stops near our houses, and this new system that was implemented a little less than 2 months ago does not help us at all.
We Want Our Old Bus Fare System Back! >.<
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