yesterday, ptc fined smrt and sbs for failing to meet service standards (see here also for the ptc announcement and more details on non-compliance)...
it's quite amazing to see that there were so many instances of non-compliance for having the bus leave the bus terminal within 5 min of the schedule at least 85% of the time daily... this doesn't even seem like a tough requirement to pass (unlike, say, loading shall not exceed 95% during weekday peak hours)...
i also note that only 1 smrt service had a failure for the loading criterion for 1 day... whereas sbs had 27 failures...
anyway, i wonder how effective this fine system is... if the fine doesn't even hurt, it doesn't really make economic sense for either bus company to improve its services i guess???
and what's this nonsense about encouraging the public to take public transport when such easy-to-pass standards (well, i'm guessing that they are easy) are being infringed?? no wonder one doesn't really see ministers/saf officers (the more vip-ish ones)/rich people taking public transport... i was just thinking the other day.. a guy who doesn't X tells others to X is just _slightly_ unconvincing, don't u think? _if_ the day comes when... uh... let's say.. the PM can welcome delegates (including heads of state) and transport them using public transport (of course, on the pretext of showing what an efficient public transport system our dear country has)... then... that's when public transport would really have arrived... the chance of that happening is... approximately 0 (to the nearest 4 decimal places) i guess...
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