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The first thing that came to my mind was, why is the public transport operators’ profitability Mr Lui’s primarily concern when he made no apologies to commuters for the impact on them caused by this so-called “illegal strike”? Why is it that commuters are warned that they should be expected to foot the bill for what clearly is a failure of SMRT - a private company - in containing a internal human resource issue? Would it be too much for me to ask all of ours ministers to officially declare whether they own any shares in any of the transport operators, and those who do should never be appointed to the transport minsitry since there is an obvious conflict of interest here?
Did Mr Lui forget that the government recently gave the two operators a massive subsidy of $1.1 billion through the Bus Services Enhancement Fund [BSEF] to procure of 550 buses? I recalled that the it was explained that the S$1.1 billion will also cover the operating costs of those vehicles over 10 years which I understood to include salaries for drivers. Did the government fail to budget for it properly just like the Youth Olympics and is now scrambling to plug the hole?
- http://www.nowhere.per.sg/?p=1826
Did Mr Lui forget that the government recently gave the two operators a massive subsidy of $1.1 billion through the Bus Services Enhancement Fund [BSEF] to procure of 550 buses? I recalled that the it was explained that the S$1.1 billion will also cover the operating costs of those vehicles over 10 years which I understood to include salaries for drivers. Did the government fail to budget for it properly just like the Youth Olympics and is now scrambling to plug the hole?
- http://www.nowhere.per.sg/?p=1826
