Price is rocketing high into the sky!!!

Was reading Ms Yilin blog and saw her ranting about how taxi fare have rocket into galaxy high situation, (a whopping $23.20 from Woodlands to Dover!) . It seem that price hike doesn't concern tax payer anymore, it concern even school student and majority of Singaporean even those who did not received the Progress Package (like me! nb). So far, the price hike only hit taxi, although the flag down rate only increase by $0.10 but every km that the taxi travelled is also increasing, which end up consumer like us have to pay for taxi fare which are of astronomical figure, just like asking for the moon! They claimed that increasing the taxi fare is to help taxi driver tide over the hard times in Singapore. Okie, if consumer are put off by the astronomical taxi fare and they choose to wake up early to take bus, MRT or even ride bicycle to work and school, do you think increasing taxi fare will help taxi driver to tide them over? And recently there were this policy on increasing the retirement age of taxi driver, i am puzzled by this policy simply because, why they can't let taxi driver retire early because they have already work for so many years of their life, just stop toturing them and let them enjoy their later years of their life. Also, increasing the retirement age of taxi driver endanger the life of passenger. Imagine a healthy looking taxi driver collasping halfway while ferrying his passenger, not that i have a foul mouth, but you never know.

If you are thinking about waking up early to catch a bus or MRT to work, i guess you have to start finding an alternative soon when the price of this 2 public transport start shooting like a rocket into the orbit soon although it will still be cheaper than taxi. But i hope that the increase of price in bus fare will also mean better services from bus driver, one thing bad about SBS bus driver is that they think that their company are the King of the Road already as they are covering majority of the bus route in Singapore. So majority of them have that arrogant look on their face, refusing to smile, scolding commuters for paying the wrong fare. I had once witness a bus driver scolding an old lady with her grandson for simply paying the wrong fare and accusing her of cheating the bus driver. This kind of attitude is simply outrageous.

Price of public transports hiking and owning a car in Singapore is like commiting a sin ( its a killer with all the tax and maintence of that 4 wheeled steel) , the parking fee in town area is coming up again, that's why i call it a sin to own a car in Singapore, every gantry u past by is a hole burnt in your pocket. Look like Singaporean best transport will be bicycle soon, 5 years down the road with the increase of public transport fare being intolerable, we may see Singaporean travelling down CBD wearing helmet and having their bicycle equipped with cash card reader. Don't forget to load your cashcard into the cashcard reader, if not Traffic Police may just summon your bicycle!