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The government has appointed a 13-member committee to look into the public transport fare adjustment formula and the framework for fare adjustments.
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Mr Khaw Boon Wan: Madam, we are most sympathetic to the taxi drivers who experience such incidents. But if the taxi driver could not tell us the identity of the person, other than saying that the person is of a particular race, or gender, it is very hard for us to track down the person. So, I think common sense requires the taxi drivers, when they encounter such an incident, to get as much information as they can from the fare evader: basic information like name, address and so on. There are instances we know of where they could not get the information, they will try to report to the Police, fetched the passenger all the way to the police station and let the Police step in. The primary duty or responsibility of helping the taxi drivers resides with the taxi operator and the operator should be the first to help out, which must also include sharing with their taxi drivers tips on how to reduce such incidents and, as I said, some of which are common sense, which is that you must get the basic information. https://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/topic.jsp?currentTopicID=00010276-WA¤tPubID=00010243-WA&topicKey=00010243-WA.00010276-WA_4%2Bid-0db411d8-c7f2-4751-bd4a-50664ed63e3e%2B Whoa maybe next time u will need to surrender your IC to the taxi driver when u take taxi?
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http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/grab-driver-refuses-fare-couple-sick-child There are crooks but there are also folks with hearts of gold. David Ang Zhi Hao, [thumbsup] SINGAPORE - A couple rushing their feverish son to hospital were touched by a random act of kindness shown to them by a Grab driver, who refused to accept money for the ride. In a Facebook post on Tuesday (Feb 2), Mohamed Shahreza said "this kind soul", not only drove them from Yishun to KK Women's and Children's Hospital along Bukit Timah Road but also refused to accept the fare which amounted to $18. Mr Mohamed added that he and his wife were "touched by his care and concern for our son throughout the journey", and "grateful for his high sense of morality". The driver was identified in the post as David Ang Zhi Hao. According to Mr Mohamed, Mr Ang told the couple to treat the free ride as "an angbao for your baby, and may he get well soon with great health". Mr Mohamed wrote: "At this point, We were speechless and couldn't thank him more. (Okay we felt like crying... seriously). "In today's world we do still see good people around us and we are blessed to have him in this small part of our life" - See more at: http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/grab-driver-refuses-fare-couple-sick-child#sthash.uwGNWqzo.dpuf
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Anybody brought this "Flights to Hong Kong: Return Cathay Pacific Flights for 1 Person @ $255.00" from groupon web site? http://getaways.groupon.sg/en/deals/720487007 How is your experience when you try to redeem the air ticket from Fare Express Pte Ltd? Please share...
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Saw this article Mar 16 http://travel.asiaone.com/article/news/what-some-sporeans-do-when-travelling-overseas By Chai Hung Yin The New Paper | Mon, Mar 16 2015 Chinese tourists, who have been making headlines for poor behaviour abroad, are not the only badly behaved travellers. Singaporeans sometimes don't fare much better. Here are some anecdotes from Singaporeans serving Singaporeans travellers. COMPLAINT KING (READ: DEMANDING AND FUSSY) Singaporeans are among those who are the hardest to please when it comes to food, says Mr John Tan, 50, a tour leader, and tour guide. "They even expect the overseas chef to whip up local dishes like fried beehoon," says Mr Tan. Singaporeans also demand cheap stuff but then complain about the poor quality, he adds. "They do not understand that it is 'yi fen qian, yi fen huo' (the quality of the product depends on the price)." BADLY BEHAVED KIDS A child, aged five, refused to have his seat belt fastened and his parents did nothing on a flight from Jakarta. An air steward who wanted to be known only as Jude recalls: "The child wasn't sick, just naughty. Yet the parents still accommodated the kid's antics." Just before the flight landed, the father stood up with the child in his arms to pacify him. Jude says: "It was very dangerous. I shouted at the top of my voice for him to sit down. He had a shock and thankfully sat down (with the kid)." AIRPLANE FRACAS A group of Singaporeans on a tour to an East Asian country chatted loudly on a red-eye flight. It prompted a passenger trying to get some shut-eye to throw water on the group. The water fell on a teenager and escalated into a fracas when the girl's father stood up and grabbed the neck of the passenger, says tour guide Simon Lim. When the plane landed, the airport police were waiting for them. The tour group was held up while Mr Lim tried to mediate between the feuding parties. HELLO RABID KITTY FANS In June 2013, a Singaporean couple wrecked a Hello Kitty-themed one-room apartment in Taipei when they were there for a holiday. They even refused to return the apartment keys and returned days later to steal snacks, a limited edition Hello Kitty hair dryer and toys. The owner of the property estimated that the damage caused by the couple was about NT$30,000 (S$1,315). WHY TIP? A woman in her 50s told freelance tour leader Vincent Ng at the start of a tour in Egypt: "Make sure your service is really good. Otherwise I'll deduct $2 a day (from his tips)." Mr Ng, 50, ended up serving her hand and foot, going as far as holding the woman's hands when she was walking across a bridge or riding a horse. She was pleased at first, but changed her tack when it came to their last meal. She grumbled about "eating in a Chinese restaurant in Egypt". Mr Ng eventually forked out US$60 (S$85) of his own money on room service for her. Yet she still wasn't happy when he collected service fees from the tour group, and relented only when others chided her for not wanting to pay. RELUCTANT BAG STOWER A plane nearly turned back after a woman in her mid 30s refused to stow her cabin luggage: Not in the overhead compartment, nor underneath the seat in front of her. Says Jude, who works for a no-frills airline "She was five seconds away from being off-loaded." She finally gave in after much cajoling from the crew. When they arrived at their destination, she went up to Jude's colleagues and threatened: "Don't you know who I am? I'm the Complaint Queen." How ironic.. Comments
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Bus companies so special?
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Seems like even taking taxis now got choosiness......and those who can pay, will...leading to again, Elitism SINGAPORE: Taxi drivers and passengers say they are in a difficult spot because of uncertainty caused by staggered announcements on taxi fare revisions. This comes after SMRT Taxis said on Monday it was following competitor ComfortDelGro's revised rates. ComfortDelGro's rates took effect on Monday, while rates for SMRT Taxis will start on December 20. Other taxi operators say they are reviewing the situation. When it comes to taxi fare hikes, it's clearly not a case of one-for-all, and all-for-one. Different charges by taxi companies mean some customers are cherry-picking their rides. Rajamanickam, Driver of SMRT Taxis, said: "I was queuing up one early morning around 6.15. There were two taxis in front which raised the price yesterday and my taxi was the third one. The passengers refused to take the first taxi. They come to my taxi and I told them, "Can you please take the front one, because I cannot cut the queue?" They said, "I'll wait for you!" They waited for me (in the queue) and ... took my taxi. What does that show? They are against the price increase." That may be true for some, but not for all. One lady passenger said: "Sometimes when people is in a rush right, then they got no choice but they got to pay the additional (fare). Considering now like the economy is not doing so well, so I think it's quite unnecessary." Another lady passenger said: "If we really need a taxi, we don't mind about the fare." One grouse raised was how the fare revisions have been announced. Rajamanickam added that it would be better if all taxi companies announce the fare revision together. Then it would be fair for all, including the passengers. Taxi drivers said it is still early to say what impact the changes will have on their earnings. - CNA/de
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She alighted and turned her jeans pockets inside out, showing she had no money to pay the $5.40 taxi fare.
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So whose going to pay for all these new management appointments????.............Look like fare sure to go up ..............and the reason will be need to pay the bus captains a higher salary...........WTF......... Quote from ST on 25 Dec 2012...........
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Anyone read the Wanbao report?
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PRC cockroach refuses to pay taxi fare and shows middle finger at indian driver! Smelly PRC cockroach is at it again! http://temasektimes.wordpress.com/2012/04/...-middle-finger/
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No public transport fare adjustments can be expected this year, said Minister for Transport Lui Tuck Yew. Speaking in parliament on Wednesday, Lui announced that public transport operators are currently facing higher costs -- especially on their bus operations -- and hence, the government should not be in a rush to review this year's fare adjustments. Lui added that the current fare formula is due for review this year and that any fare adjustments that were not made this year will be taken into consideration into next year's fare formula. With no changes to fare adjustments, the disabled and polytechnic students will not get to enjoy any fare concessions. Although Lui expressed sympathy for these two groups of citizens, he maintained that "not all of these requests [to implement fare concessions] can be addressed immediately or entirely within a single fare revision exercise". In addition, Lui also asked for patience from the Members of Parliament who had advocated fare concessions for polytechnic students, before adding that the Public Transport Council (PTC), which is the body that regulates fares, is "acutely aware" of the requests for concession and will co-operate with transport operators to consider these requests. Low-income earners at losing end Singaporeans expressed concern with Lui's announcement, with many anticipating fare adjustments in next year's formula. Others also noted that the static fares will no doubt affect low-income families who are already struggling to make ends meet. Said Facebook user Ong Yongjie, who responded to Yahoo! Singapore's wall post, "Transport minister Lui Tuck Yew should get our approval first
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For a 90-minute taxi ride from Changi Airport to Jurong West, Mr A. Kochumadhavan paid $82.59. On Dec 23 last year, he arrived at Changi Airport Terminal 3 after a 27-hour flight from Lisbon, Portugal, and got into a black SMRT Chrysler cab, unaware that such taxis command premium fares. Traffic on the ECP was heavy, and Mr Kochumadhavan arrived home 90 minutes after he had entered the cab. Cabbies whom The New Paper spoke to said that this is the steepest fare they have heard of in all their years of driving a taxi. Wow 1st time in my life in s'pore, heard so much cab fare....
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Coming soon, i reckon within the next 3 months.
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I oso be taxi driber http://www.mrbrown.com/blog/2011/12/this-m...n+%28mrbrown%29 <h3 class="entry-header" style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left; ">This may be the reason why Comfort DelGro raised taxi fares</h3> The outrage over Comfort DelGro's upcoming fare hike and extension of peak surcharge hours to include Sunday and public holidays has been quick and visceral. I found this photo floating around teh internets which may or may not be the reason for the fare hike. Not to be outdone, there are rumours that CityCab is also planning a new surcharge for customers who want to be the Elite of Elite Taxi customers. Soon you will see the pre-peak taxi surcharge, pre-midnight-disappearance surcharge, the driver-lunch-hour & changing shift surcharge. My other predictions: 2012: "Comfort Del-Groan Taxis is pleased to announce that the new surcharge-less period of the day is now 2.15pm to 3.15pm." 2013: "Comfort Del-groan Taxis is pleased to announce that there will be no fare surcharge on days beginning with "G"." 2014: "Comfort Del-groan Taxis is pleased to announce that there will now only be two surcharges: peak and more-peak." (In case you are wondering, these are NOT real photos of Singapore cabs but are cleverly photoshopped images by witty internet persons.)
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Yet another person pulled off this stunt successfully STOMPer Justin's father, who is a cabby, encountered this man who reportedly refused to pay the $10.20 fare after reaching his destination at Normanton Park. According to his father, the man had got on the cab near Boat Quay and appeared to be drunk. When his father made a police report, the police told him that they could not help, said the STOMPer. STOMPer Justin wrote: On May 17, my dad, who is a taxi driver, came back home after an ugly encounter with a drunk passenger. "As shown in the police report, my dad picked up this Caucasian from around Boat Quay. "Upon reaching his destination at Normanton Park, the drunk passenger unreasonably refused to pay the fare. "He then argued, saying 'Why should I pay?' "My dad then told him that he will call the police if he refused to pay the fare and he challenged my dad to 'carry on'. "Two policemen arrived on the scene five minutes after my dad called the police. "However, all they did were to find out what happened and recorded my father's ID and told him to go to the police station the following day to make a report. "They never even tried to look for and question the passenger, who by then was in his house. "After my dad made the police report, they told my dad that they cannot do anything to help also. "Throughout this incident, the police did not even try to contact the passenger. "My dad, who has no details of the passenger, also cannot seek help from his company. "We did not post this story because we want him to pay up. "The issue of the money is small, but, in this case, if even the police cannot do anything, then what are the taxi drivers going to do if this type of incident happens more? "I believe this could happen to any taxi driver in Singapore. "The sad thing here is that the passenger got off so easily, while my poor dad does not even know what else he can do."
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Taken from channel news asia forum. If this is really true, then it opens up many opportunities for copycats!! From Zaobao: Taxi driver picked up a China woman who refused to pay cab fare. Brought her to police station, woman still refused to pay and refused to produce identification, in the end police says nothing can be done. 王瑞发 2011年7月18日，16时40分，我载了一个中国女生乘客，她拒绝支付德士车费（7.80元，包括ERP收费1元）。我只好开车送乘客到North Canal警察局报警（报案编号：A/20110718/0089）。当时，那位中国乘客还趁机搜了我的杂物箱（glove compartment），一名警察下士（姑隐其名）目击了此事。 我觉得很惊讶的是： 一、警察叫她付钱，但她一再拒绝； 二、警察叫她显示她的护照或有效证件，她说她没有带； 三、她非法搜我的杂物箱 警察叫我找我的德士公司联络，寻求协助。此外，一名中士（姑隐其名）告诉我：
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I was intrigued when I read the news that the transport fare needs to increase in order to increase the salary of the white collar operator. I cannot rationalized this statement. I would have fully agreed to this statement if the company has been making a loss year after year. However with record profit , it simply does not make sense to me. Probably, I have limited self-rationalizing power. I am seeking enlightenment here.
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look at what this crybaby is saying... surely one of the worst reasons given for transport fare hikes the transport companies are acting like any other profit-oriented companies where high management receive huge bonuses every year while ordinary workers get pathetic increment or even pay freezes i'm really disgusted by them
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Song bo 60.1%? Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said that fare increases cannot be helped, and that transport companies have to make reasonable profits to provide good service. Mr Lee touched on the ongoing debate over a proposed fare hike in public transport last night at a National Day celebration. "From time to time, fare increases cannot be helped", he tried to explain. On suggestions that the government is helping public transport operators to make more profits, he said, "there is no reason for us to do so." "But we have to allow the transport companies to break even and to make reasonable profits, so that they can provide this good service." He leaves the Public Transport Council to decide what consitutes a "reasonable profit". I guess transport companies have been making "unreasonable" profits in the past
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'No fare hike till service improves': Tan Kin Lian By Zakir Hussain PRESIDENTIAL hopeful Tan Kin Lian wants the Public Transport Council (PTC) to delay fare hikes until transport operators improve the quality of service. He echoed public complaints about operators SBS Transit and SMRT. Members of the public have expressed unhappiness that the two operators are seeking to raise fares with no improvement in service. They have complained about crowded buses and trains, and unreliable service. Mr Tan wrote on his blog: 'I echo the views of the public and wish to ask the Public Transport Council to delay any fare increase until the public transport operators can provide more capacity and improve the standard of service, namely to provide a more comfortable ride with shorter waiting and travelling time.' He also urged Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew and the Land Transport Authority 'to take urgent steps to revamp' the public transport system. Mr Tan, a former chief executive of insurance cooperative NTUC Income, has in recent years suggested ways to improve public transport, including more regulation." Previously Lui says transport service need improvement. Now A tan goes one step further by saying "NO" to fare increase until situation improves. Somehow I feel it might not make much of a difference & fare increase will pass through (remember fare review was postponed to after GE???). And the thing about fare increase is not to IMPROVE their service but to maintain its present standard. So without increase, the service would decrease!!!
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3 letters. WTF CNA
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SINGAPORE : The Public Transport Council (PTC) has decided to defer this year's fare review exercise to the fourth quarter of 2011. It said this is to coincide with the opening of Phases 4 and 5 of the Circle Line from Marymount to HarbourFront. The exact opening date will be announced later. The Circle Line connects all the existing rail lines into the city. The council said with its opening, rail fares may change for many commuters. Deferring the fare review, said the council, will also eliminate the need to conduct separate rounds of fare system reconfiguration, testing and fare publication. It added by timing the review with the opening of the line, commuters will see at most, one round of fare changes this year. Gerard Ee, Chairman of the PTC said: "The deferment of this year's fare review exercise to coincide with the full opening of the CCL is done with the interest of the commuters in mind. This is to minimise any inconvenience and confusion, as they will experience at most one round of fare adjustments, if the PTC decides to adjust the public transport fares this year. "Apart from the time frame, there are no other changes to the fare review mechanism. The council's consideration of any fare revision applications made by the public transport operators will continue to be guided by the recommendations of the Fare Review Mechanism Committee, the same as in previous fare review exercises."
