Penalties for fare evasion on buses and MRT trains kicked in on Tuesday.
Under the new system, those who do not pay the correct fare will be fined S$20, while those who abuse concession cards face a penalty of S$50.
Offenders can pay on the spot or at any of TransitLink’s offices and Add—Value Machines located at bus interchanges and MRT stations. They have up to 14 days to do so. Any appeals should also be made within this time.
An additional penalty of S$1,000 will be imposed on fare cheats if they do not pay their fine. The same penalty applies if one refuses to give their personal details, or provide false information to the public transport official.
Repeat offenders may be fined S$2,000 or be jailed up to six months, or both. [source]
Right.
There’s a penalty for fare cheating… and even an estimate for losses as a result of fare cheating. But where is the estimate of profits coming from erroneous over-charging by transport operators? What penalties will there be against transport operators for such woeful mistakes?
When these freaking bus companies over-charged us, they just and write it off as ‘human errors’ , and claimed that some other guy will in turn benefit from that mistake. And we have to go through the freaking pain of spending our own precious time to go to some lousy Transitlink office somewhere, to claim back that money because of their freaking mistake!!
I repeat: We have to waste our time and at our own expense go to their office so they can correct their mistake!
But I know. Nobody cares, and nobody is going to be really bothered. 66.6% anyway. What the fxxk…
In fact, I expect some fumb duck to even say, “Unless you are a freaking fare cheat yourself, you shouldn’t be concerned” . On top of that, I am also expecting members of the PLP – which incidentally is the largest political party in Singapore (not the TaliPAP) – to tell me off. And here’s a great example of how a fine specimen or PLP would be doing it:
All the hikes in ‘GST, ERPs, fuel taxes etc’ may be annoying to us at times. However, people who do nothing other than repetitively whine about the
governmentgahmen on their computers are not doing anything constructive.Either they can try to run for a position that would influence these policies, or write to the people who make decisions. Or do *something* lah.
Rather than just complain and complain and complain some more.
Such a comment basically requires none of the analytical and critical thinking that is supposed to come with high education. Any jia-liao-bee can say that. And I had thought Mao’s Red Guards [红卫兵], and the Boxers [义和团] were the finest brainless / brain-washed specimens of the human species in the last 150 years!!
What do I have in response to that?
Reason obeys itself; Ignorance submits to what is dictated to it. – Thomas Paine.
Have a good day ahead.
Note:
– PLP is just an acronym for the Hokkien phrase Por Lan Pa [捧卵脬] – which translates literally as ‘supporting the scrotum’ or ‘carry balls’.
– Jia-liao-bee in Hokkien means someone is wasting the rice he eats.
How did they arrived at the $9 million in the first place? Seems like a lot of exaggerated extrapolations to me. If they are going to fine fare cheats, than what about fines to the transport companies for overcharging and breakdowns. Everytime a bus or MRT breakdown, we lose valuable time and money. The fines that the LTA leveraged on the transport companies should rightfully be returned to the passengers. Why should the government be pocketing the fines when its the passengers who bear the consequences?
On a final note, when they implemented the ezlink system, didn’t they tell us it was going to eliminate the problem of fare cheating? After making us bear the cost incurred from its implementation, now they are telling us they are losing $9 million every year from fare cheats? Looks like dishinest passengers aren’t the only one who is cheating here.
things don’t work two ways.
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