Transport system in Singapore
January 9th, 2024 | 
Author: 
I am generally satisfied with the transport system in Singapore.
There are a few inefficiencies, but these can be addressed. The possible improvements are:
a) To replace trunk services, that operate long routes, by feeder services to MRT stations
b) To introduce inter town services that travel on expressways without intermediate stops
c) To reduce taxi fares (by removing COE) to attract more people to use taxis instead of private cars
d) To subsidize school buses.
Buses
There are 350 trunk services operating in Singapore. Each service has an average of 60 stops and takes 90 minutes to complete the one way journey.
I suggest that the trunk services be replaced by 300 feeder services to bring passengers to a nearby MRT station and 50 inter-town services. Each feeder service has an average of 12 stops.
The feeder service will have an waiting time of 2 to 3 minutes and is expected to have an average occupancy of 60% (compared to 30% for trunk services).
Taxis
To prevent people from using a taxi (with free COE) as a private car, the following steps will be taken:
a) The taxis are given only to taxi operators who will rent the taxi to individual drivers.
b) The drivers are required to clock in a certain amount of taxi fares in a day
c) The taxis are painted a special color and given a special license number.
d) It is illegal to use the taxis as a private car.
e) The taxi fares are regulated
f) The taxis can be booked using an app (just like private hire cars), so that the taxi drivers do not need to ply the street to look for customers.
Adequate taxi licenses will be issued, so that it is convenient and inexpensive to get a taxi. The supply will be managed so that the drivers can earn an adequate income and the customers pay a low fare. The fare for taxis will be 3 to 5 times of the public transport fare.
Tan Kin Lian
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Transport has improve…less breakdown.
Will be good if can response better to crowd situation,sometime it is really packed inside the train or bus .
Easier to spread Covid in such situation…
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What is the quality of life if we reach 6.9million?
BTO at $1,000,000 on Pulau Ubin
Chicken Rice at $10.
Jammed pack buses, jammed pack MRT.
Only money laundering Tiongs can afford $150,000 COE.
All car owners are foreigners.
Sentosa Cove and all good condos own by foreigners.
Only sinkie-male serve NS.
Sinkie stay in BTO on Pulau Ubin.
Do BMT on Pulau Tekong.
Money Lauderers Tiongs enjoy live on Sentosa.
Maharajah-Ministers stay in G-owned GCBs.
Sinking Sinkie will not be killed by Climate Change; will killed by their inability to think!
Meanwhile queueing up for handouts of CDC vouchers like modern beggars.
The mentality of the Unthinking FearFul Fools; the DNA of the Coolie descendants.
”Singapore’s total fertility rate drops to historic low of 1.05
Singapore’s total fertility rate has been falling for many years”
Why produce more HDB-BTO Coolie to sustain the Property-Ponzi-Pyramid that they will always be the at the bottom of.
A property-ponzi that is controlled by the same Property-Tycoons that control papigs.
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Not just Transport System.
Its the whole $ystem.
When people die diw put $ before humans,things will be overturned.
Just look around you.
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@”To prevent people from using a taxi (with free COE) as a private car, the following steps will be taken:
a) The taxis are given only to taxi operators who will rent the taxi to individual drivers.”
Response: isn’t the taxi companies are doing this now?
@”b) The drivers are required to clock in a certain amount of taxi fares in a day”
Response: will this increase operating cost for companies and drivers?
@”c) The taxis are painted a special color and given a special license number.”
Response: do you mean to standardize the color for all taxis from different companies?
Isn’t taxi licence plate starts with ‘SH’?
@”d) It is illegal to use the taxis as a private car.”
Response: how to check?
@”e) The taxi fares are regulated”
Response: isn’t the fares are calculated by meter?
@”f) The taxis can be booked using an app (just like private hire cars), so that the taxi drivers do not need to ply the street to look for customers.”
Response: the taxis are using app, only some drivers are not comfortable with app and prefer to pick up customers on street. Not forgetting, some customers also don’t know how to use app.
@”Adequate taxi licenses will be issued, so that it is convenient and inexpensive to get a taxi. The supply will be managed so that the drivers can earn an adequate income and the customers pay a low fare.”
Response: i thought the problem with taxis is high rental and operating cost, and due to competition with private hire cars, that’s why people gave up.
Do you think customers can pay a low fare by looking at the fare structure=> taxi fare+ on call charges+ app fee= ?
I missed trishaw, more environmental friendly.
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