TR EMERITUS

The case shows the systemic problem in Singapore.

A transport card goes all way up to the minister for a decision. We never hear of that in other countries. What are the civil servants for? Do they clean the office and serve tea?

“the people who are behind the SimplyGo card design and implementation are one, fairly high income earners and two, people who do not take public transport on a daily basis and hence their lack of basic knowledge, empathy and understanding such as the habit, comfort and importance of viewing the trip fare and card balance are glaringly ignored and/or overlooked.”

They also do not test the system out as well. LTA said they had don’t know what focus group. How many people actually tested out the card? And not even one person noticed that the remaining card value wasn’t displayed ah you sure or not? How the hell was testing even done or was it just pc simulations like playing videogame like that?

This is strike 2 for LTA after the service 167 debacle. Let’s see when strike 3 will be. LTA is symtomatic of government agencies these days, look at data and then make decisions. They said for service 167 they asked the community leaders before making the decision to withdraw the service. Who are these community leaders? How many? Do these people take 167 regularly? Why weren’t 167 commuters surveyed at all?

Same goes for idiot HDB. Remember the AMK SERS debacle not so long ago? They simply assumed these people had 100k or more in their CPF to pay for a replacement flat!

We have the following questions for the parliament and Minister of Transport:

1. How much was invested/spend on ‘Simply Go’ system platform, so far?

2. How long the ‘Simply Go’ platform is contracted or planned for before the next sunset of ‘Simply Go’?

3. How much ‘Simply Go’ cost to maintain its system and hardware yearly?

4. Why existing contactless platform of EZ was not incorporated as ‘Critical Performance Variables’ of ‘Simply Go’ platform?

5. Where can the public inspect ‘Simply Go’ yearly financial statements?

In many countries, the state incorporated companies are NOT exempt from public disclosure of its financial statements for public scrutiny. When Public listed companies need to publish quarterly results, it is ridiculous to know that companies incorporated by the states using public funds are any lesser in disclosure in terms of financial spending.

Was it because there are NO member of parliament pushing for such legislation?
Because over 90% members of the parliament come from the same political party and expected to toll the line regardless of any moral obligations?

A constant lags in Simply Go apps to update fare trip information, and constant fare deduction errors make us think that Simply Go is a highly unreliable system which LTA had ‘invested’ in.

In 2019, pre-covid era, an average of about 7.691 million passengers rides a day used public transport in Singapore. In 2022, an average of 6.39 million passengers rides a day used public transport in Singapore.

If we assume a very low rate error in deduction of 0.5%, it will be 38,455 and 31,950 cases everyday! And if each trip wrongfully deduct 10c to 50c, the total amount of error deduction will be somewhere between $3,195 to $19,227 everyday.

Annually, the amount of wrongful deduction can be around $1million to $7million.

Can someone in the parliament address this matter and ask the Minister to give honest answers to those questions?

”Chee mentioned that the LTA had consulted over 1,000 commuters from 2020 to 2023 about SimplyGo”
Those 1000 were probably RC members.
Most RC members have ulterior motives, esp FTs wanting PR or citizenships.
Oneself can never check oneself!
”Upton Sinclair
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Do not surround yourselves with YES-MEN.
Highly paid YESMEN in civil service, with iron rice-bowl mentality are the most dangerous animals.
Sinkieland is going to the dogs because of HP-Yesmen.
1.SimplyGo
2.AMK SERS petition.
3.SBS bus service 167
…and a thousand others some reversed some giving permanent damage

Why no one from LTA comes forward to explain and apologise?

Gutsy posts are more interesting than TRE on Simplystop.

https://gutzy.asia/2024/01/27/is-chee-hong-tat-suggesting-simplygo-is-free-vs-s40m-for-existing-system/

https://gutzy.asia/2024/01/25/netizen-challenges-minister-chees-claims-on-transport-fare-display-in-hong-kong/

Yes, not knowing how much you are actually spending on public transport per trip with just a quick glance is touted as a new feature.

A new feature that LTA and PAP originally intended for paying commuters to mindlessly accept until the public backlash occurred.

This is not unexpected. Hoping to cushion the impact of future fare hikes?

Coming Up Next… SimplyStepDown.

The issue of errors and mis-charges or over charges, it requires individuals’ time to go over and inspect your fare charges.

Sometimes it just doesn’t make ‘sense’ to experience the hassle to claim few dollars or cents. But the accumulated sum is no small amount when the frequencies increases.

https://gutzy.asia/2024/01/26/user-shares-experience-of-overcharges-on-simplygo-due-to-missed-entries/

If the overcharged situations is 3 times in a month for $2, and a person made 4 trips a day, 120 trips a month (30-days), the over-charging rate is 2.5%.

Putting the above figure into DAILY 7.691 million (2019) passengers rides & 6.39 million (2022) passengers rides, daily overcharged cases are 192,275 & 159,750 respectively. If each over-charges is $2 going unnoticed, the over charges amount to $116 million to $140 million annually.

Do note that :
1. SBS Transit turns in full-year revenue of $1.5 billion in 2022.
2. SMRT full-year revenue of $645.5 million in 2022.
3. Tower Transit SG – unknown revenue
4. Go-ahead SG – unknown revenue

Besides over-charging and/or error charging issues, the problem of Frequently Expiring usable cards is also a concern. Technically, values in those expired cards are being ‘confiscated’ for those who are not using those transport cards for sometimes.

The issues for SG commuters are much larger than we can imagine.

MillionDollar: In 2019, pre-covid era, an average of about 7.691 million passengers rides a day used public transport in Singapore. In 2022, an average of 6.39 million passengers rides a day used public transport in Singapore.

If we assume a very low rate error in deduction of 0.5%, it will be 38,455 and 31,950 cases everyday! And if each trip wrongfully deduct 10c to 50c, the total amount of error deduction will be somewhere between $3,195 to $19,227 everyday.

Annually, the amount of wrongful deduction can be around $1million to $7million.

You peasants, you know how much money it costs for us to collect money from you? It’s time for us elites to kpkb.

Take your peasant faces away from my elite uncaring face.

LTA is just another arrogant money-collection agency for the G.
LTA is Land Tran$port Autocra$y.

Now, people realize that cleaning workers have an important unspecified work of chasing birds away, as they walk around and clear tables.

Now the bosses will say that birds are not their responsibility and wait for the bird dept to do their job. The majority voters deserved their gov.

smart nation: Take for instance the dirtiness and birds nuisance in hawker centers, many complaints have been lodged in the press and internet, and yet, nothing has been done. The situations are getting worse in the hawker centers!! Or are they waiting for some more shits hitting the ceilng to have another wayang show!!

It’s Ok … just follow the flow
Copy, modified and paste
And call it your own.
Will the Minister stop the COE escalating to $250,000 by end 2024 or 2025
So Singapore will not be for the high society. Only rich can own a car.

It’s peanuts to spend these money.
Is ok. Just plough back from the COE, increase Restricted Gantry fees, increase road tax , increase import duties ????
No big deal.