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[Man in the streets]

Recently we heard minority-race PM would be possible in Singapore. Why not ? If this happens other than Chinese PM, it would mean Singapore is EQ matured and an united society. But the critical element is that when PM is elected by the people, there is no more a race issue.

Look at the present PM, he may be elected as a MP but he is an elected Prime Minister. When PM is not elected to be one, he does not have a premiership tenure to worry about, and he may also think aristocracy is nice in a so-called republic. Remember GE 2011, you people must have heard about office bearers are servants of the people, can you digest all these erratic utterance? Elected PM will work for the people and the country.

We touch on Amos Yee and Roy , like it or not, both create awareness and the knowing of many issues. Ironically many of the issues would have been raised by the Workers Party MPs at the parliament meet. Amos and Roy probably have won more durian votes for the WP.

We know it is a giant effort to win a GRC and yet, a strong mandate given to WP MPs is not ringing the bell. Are these WP MPs working right at parliament ? The hokum of only 7 outnumbered in the parliament cannot be the excuse. While you can ask silly questions, you too should also debate real ground issues that make life better for your supporters if not for all Singaporeans.
The only way to improve life quality for Singaporeans is to first open your mouths and suggest, propose and argue for the people. Keep defending your selves about issues that you may be remiss of will bring no benefits to your supporters.

Workers Party must come to earth that being tigers and lions on stage at General Election yield no fruit for the voters. The moral -you don’t keep silent at Parliament for a few fat years and then become heroes, heroines during GE rallies because no good policies are conformed.
Playing good politics good for the people entails you to embrace mandate to speak right at parliamentary meetings not at GE Rallies to improve life quality, period.

There are so many issues spanning from healthcare to transportation , the living costs so to speak.

So . do we hear WP MPs suggest abolishing PE and bring on PM election sooner ? Or shouldn’t WP MPs speak about revamping MRT or invest to build HSR from east to west and north to south to cushion the snail MRT instead blowing big money on HSR to KL ? MRT has too many stations , it defeats the purpose, the design is wrong ! Do you WP MPs know there is no comfort travelling in MRT ( Mass slow transport)? Of course, when you talk about these things, you win votes. Unless you just want one GRC and sit relax, the rest of talk is rubbish to you.


So WP, are we under aristocracy or are we a republic ? Winning one GRC goes beyond more than just having tea with the residents if you refuse to speak up for the people. GE is coming, do something productive at the parliament meet , please.

 

[xpo2015]

I agree too!

If not so smart peasants vote in not so smart MPs to serve their constituencies.

not so smart peasants should be given one more chance to vote for their not so smart PM too!

 

[Man in the streets]

typo error-----The present PM is not an elected Prime Minister !


Look at the present PM, he may be elected as a MP but he is an elected Prime Minister. When PM is not elected to be one, he does not have a premiership tenure to worry about, and he may also think aristocracy is nice in a so-called republic. Remember GE 2011, you people must have heard about office bearers are servants of the people, can you digest all these erratic utterance? Elected PM will work for the people and the country.

 

[Tiu-leh-see-fart]

MRT is now a dangerous transport in Singapore.

MTR in Hongkong was /is built because of natural over-population.

MRT is built for man-made over-population.

Is true that MRT is wrongly designed having too many stations slowing the trains and only shorten the trains or equipment lifespent.

Moreover, MRT is not a rapid transport considering every station needs 2 to 3 mins to alight and board when you have too many stations to cope.

All in all, the design of MRT is wrong. The person in charge must resign. But wait a minute....who is the boss since it is privatized ?

These breakdowns are a harbinger to a big disaster coming to MRT. Think again when you and your family take MRT....it is not safe vehicle anymore.

Agree that PM of Singapore should be elected, or the society will lose out. A cabinet appointed PM will not take the citizens seriously, probably only deeply concerned about SEA games, National day parade, SG 50 but all these with pomp and circumstance don't bring tangible benefits. The madness must stop. The focus should be improving life quality for the singaporeans

It is humane that Huge public coffers should spend on upgrading MRT or build HSR for Singaporeans instead throwing all over Malaysia.

Workers Party MPs should also wake up from the slumber, your hands stained with blood if you keep silent on many real issues only to be wild animals at GE rallies will not improve life quality but destroy livelihood and make life more difficult for your supporters.

God help WP MPs to wake up .

 

[PoliticalDialogue]

Everyone has a personal wish list. Most of the time it is divorced from reality.

 

[Man in the streets]

refer to the piece,
http://www.allsingaporestuff.com/art...t-aljunied-grc
and would like to give my 2 cents worth as a resident of Aljunied at 103 Bedok Reservoir.

I wish to say that while I am generally an opposition supporter but I am also largely disappointed with the WP and PAP whose sole objective is only to play political games with each other at the expense of residents who are caught in a tug of war. The WP and its supporters who never fail to cry foul are not looking objectively at their own failings either. I can still understand if this was the case with the various government agencies and civil servants victimizing AHPETC but a Supreme Court Judge who is a neutral party is now calling 1 of my MPs a liar, a charge she dare not refute because she knows it is all true, period!

I had initially thought the PAP would do some soul searching and perhaps, repentance too with the loss of my constituency but this has proven not to be the case. I remembered Victor Lie proclaiming to a crowd of PAP conventioneers in 2012 that "the people must perceive they mean something to the PAP and the party must respond by sending in figures that are of "value" to wrest back the ward. But what have we witnessed instead? Dr Koh Poh Koon, Desmond Choo and Ong Ye Kung being transferred to safe wards, leaving unknown newbies to do battle with the incumbents. I feel this will become the turning point for the PAP of Aljunied in that they have lost this ward forever.

Not that the WP can feel comforted it has been doing a great job. On the contrary, they campaigned for a "first world parliament" but ended up mirroring the PAP instead, both in terms of their conservatism and line up. They have fielded graduates who have remained virtually silent on issues of accountability and transparency that matters most to the people. The initial hype leading to GE 2011 of Chen Show Mao has now proven to amount to nothing as he fades into becoming another yes man for party whip LTK and Sylvia. Chen has not spoken much and issues of his estate remains vexing, with no responses to email queries and maintainance/cleanliness remains a constant problem. Sure, Pritam and Sylvia did speak a little at first but were later cowed into submission with Pritam publicly admitting timidity when the ruling PAP clamped down on them. It did not take much effort for the PAP to do so as the WP was literally caught with their pants down.

All eyes are now on the SDP and SFP, equiped with well rounded people who are not afraid to speak up, have clear plans on estate management and running the economy as well. I can only hope that the people of Sembawang, Holland Bt Timah and Bt Panjang will give them a chance to enter parliament and take Khaw Boon Wan and Vivian to task for arrogance and lapses in their ministries. As for us at Aljunied, we have paid the ultimate price for 'democracy' which is as good as having no voice in parliament with the WP voting in harmony with PAP on most issues.

Chris Han
A.S.S. Contributor


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[Man in the streets]

MRT is under the Government but they say is a Privatised transport and public coffers are used to finance its operation. They are interested in just making more profits and dividends.

MTR in Hongkong is all about the Hongkongers.



MTR helps London Overground enhance its punctuality

MTR’s reputation as one of the world’s top metros has attracted many international clients seeking its expertise.

MTR now operates the London Overground, 2 lines of the Beijing Metro, as well as parts of the Shenzhen and Hangzhou Metro systems in China, the Melbourne Metro in Australia and the Stockholm Metro in Sweden.

In 2014, it won a contract for a new rail project in Sydney. As part of the US$6.5-billion deal, MTR will deliver and operate the Australian city’s North West Rail Link, the largest public transport project in the country and its first fully automated rapid transit network.

MTR also provides consultation services to railway networks around the world. According to a 2013 Wall Street Journal report, these overseas operations have improved both the network’s punctuality at home, as well as its profitability. London Overground enhanced its punctuality from 88.4% in 2007 to 96.7% in 2013 after MTR took over its operations for a year.

Will the PAP government consider engaging MTR to help LG (NS) Kuek and his cohort of SAF officers? Or perhaps PAP thinks that SAF scholars and soldiers are better?

Continual investment in maintenance, upgrades and renewals to train system needed

Another key to MTR’s success in keeping Hong Kong’s subway in tip-top conditions is its willingness to continuously reinvest profits back into its MTR system.

“A railway requires ongoing investment and a lot of resources in order to keep it in tip-top form,” said Jacob Kam, the operations director of MTR. “Even for a system considered state of the art, in 10 years time, everything – signaling systems, urban railways – will have changed.”

Each year, US$645 million is invested in maintenance, upgrades and renewals to the MTR system. It’s a significant amount compared with many other cities and systems, said Prof Cervero.

In contrast, during the public inquiry in May 2012 into the major train breakdowns occurred in Dec 2011, previous CEO Saw Phaik Hwa became defensive when the COI questioned her about SMRT maintenance budgets.

AGC presented data showing SMRT did not raise its maintenance budgets in nearly 10 years since 2002, despite rising ridership, more frequent train runs and ageing assets. Ms Saw then stoutly defended the SMRT’s maintenance regime. She said SMRT had not only met, but exceeded, maintenance standards set out by rail manufacturers and the LTA. She claimed that money spent on mid-life upgrades for the trains had actually helped in saving maintenance cost.

When it was pointed out to her that the upgrades were mainly for the train cabins and air-conditioning units, Saw then said parts such as wheels and propulsion systems are “upgraded continuously” and are “changed on a regular basis.”

“If there is any need to upgrade, anything in the system, it would have been,” she added. Saw also blamed the new trains for the spike in train faults. The new trains were a source of bugs, she said. One of the COI panelists, Prof Lim of NTU, cited an SMRT internal report showing a 20% drop in maintenance cost per kilometer operated. Saw replied “that could be wrong numbers” or “errors in the parameters”.

She said the events that triggered the train breakdowns on Dec 15 and 17, 2011 were unprecedented. The trains stopped because a section of the electrical ‘third rail’ had dropped off after several support claws were dislodged. No power was being supplied to the trains. She said that nothing like that had happened before. Prof Lim then pointed out that the ‘third rail’ did sag in 2010 and before 2006. Saw said management was not aware of the seriousness of the events because the dropped claws were reinstated. To that, Prof Lim retorted, “You knew the risks, and you didn’t do enough. You implemented cable ties.”

High-tech tools to aid operations

MTR also invests and employs a range of high-tech tools to aid operations.

After the last trains depart from stations at about 1 a.m., more than 1,000 workers spring into action to maintain the system.

“Because of the high demand for track space and the small amount of down time, we need to quickly move engineering trains, deliver materials and provide space for people,” said Mr Kam. “We have an A.I. system that helps us optimize the use of space in a limited time.”

The A.I. program was specially designed and built for the MTR. “We also apply a lot of radio-frequency identification technology that helps monitor the condition of the trains and machinery and gives us an early warning in case of potential problems,” he explained.

Infrared monitors on tracks are used to detect cracks too small for the human eye to detect.

“We use man to do what machines can’t do, and machines to create efficiency and accuracy that’s beyond the reach of man,” said Mr Kam, summing up a principle that’s made Hong Kong’s MTR the envy of the world’s mass transit systems.

In the case of Singapore, it sounds more like a case of “What’s wrong with collecting more money?”

This is specially so on hearing what was revealed by the COI in 2012 that SMRT did not raise its maintenance budgets in nearly 10 years since 2002, despite rising ridership, more frequent train runs and ageing assets. In fact, COI reports showed that there was a 20% drop in maintenance cost per kilometer operated by SMRT.

A former SMRT staff even told TRE that many of the experienced engineering staff were “forced to retire” under the pretext of reorganization during Saw Phaik Hwa’s time. Apparently, these experienced engineering staff were deemed too “expensive” and their salaries would eat into SMRT’s profits.
He said, “I can tell that during Saw’s time many veteran ASP Trains were forced to retire under the pretext of Re-Org. Those officers with decades of rail experience were considered too costly. They hired younger and fresh diploma holders without rail experience but cheaper and with few benefits especially medical and leave benefits.”

What caused SMRT to degenerate into a “money worshiper” at the expense of public service?

More comparisons here: http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/07/11...r-and-sgs-mrt/


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