Eat in train - $500 fine. SMRT service lapse - $300 fine = PTC zero logic?

makapaaa · Oct 26, 2011

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PTC's fines won't deter future lapses
Letter from Alvin Choo 06:33 PM Oct 25, 2011

I read the report "SMRT, SBS Transit fined for service quality breaches" (Oct 22) and wondered why the Public Transport Council bothered to fine SBS Transit and SMRT $700 and $300, respectively, for not meeting Quality of Service standards.

SBS Transit reported a net profit of S$54.2 million last year. A $700 fine is a mere 0.00129 per cent. For SMRT, whose net profit was S$161.1 million, the $300 fine represents only 0.00019 per cent.

To corporations as big as them, the PTC fines are equivalent to a convicted serial killer serving two hours of Corrective Work Order.

Compare this to a fine of up to $500 for eating and drinking on the trains, which represents 12 per cent of the average monthly earnings (S$4,089) of workers last year.

I am not saying the size of the fine should be pegged to the profits/earnings of the corporation or individual, but it should be of an amount enough to deter, in this case, future service lapses.

Perhaps, the PTC could be

Loofydralb · Oct 26, 2011

If you replace the smrt ceo, you will immediately find improvement.

But too bad she is somebodys kaki-lang.in other first world public listed companies she would have been booted out long ago.

Eat in train - $500 fine. SMRT service lapse - $300 fine = PTC zero logic?

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