Happy New Year : What 2013 may bring...

Happy New Year : What 2013 may bring... #oursgconv

The year 2011 ended with a dramatic breakdown of our MRT system that woke everyone up to the urgent need to improve our public transport. On the last day of 2012, I took the circle line and was delayed for more than half an hour in the morning due to a "track fault". In the afternoon, there was a problem with the EW line when a breakdown occurred at Redhill MRT[Link ]. On the same day, there was also a disruption on the NEL - what a way to end the year. I wrote about the problems with our transport system 6 years ago, identifying the privatisation of our public transport and the pressure for profit to please shareholders as factors that will lead to decline in service quality. Unless we can change the model, we will not see the dramatic improvement of service quality needed to lift the quality of life of most Singaporeans - with rising COE and more middleclass Singaporeans...

Full article: http://singaporemind.blogspot.com/2013/01/happy-new-year-...