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The RAT is out of it's hole !
Mitsubishi is the CULPRIT for the sufferings of ALL Motorists in SinKapore.
The current ERP System by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was REJECTED by Japanese consumers ... and Mitsubishi dumped it into Sinkapore.
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$10 CashCard for those charged wrongly at KPE gantry
http://motoring.asiaone.com/Motoring/News/Story/A1Story20080905-86018.html
A TOTAL of 538 motorists were taken by surprise on Tuesday when they went through an Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantry at the new Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE).
The gantry is not meant to be operational yet, but the motorists were charged as they passed through it.
One of them wrote in to citizen- media website Stomp and said:
"I was driving through the KPE tunnel towards the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) exit at around 12pm and was surprised to be charged $2 at gantry 82."
Stomp contacted the Land Transport Authority (LTA), which said that it will refund motorists who were accidentally charged at the KPE gantry between 11am and noon that day.
A spokesman told my paper that the erroneous deductions amounted to about $800.
The spokesman explained the incident:
"Between 11am and noon on Tuesday, ERP contractors from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, while carrying out routine testing, accidentally activated one of the Phase 1 ERP gantries at the KPE slip road exit to PIE at Sims Avenue.
"LTA has made arrangements to refund the motorists for the amount that had been wrongly deducted with a $10 CashCard."
The amount covers the fee which was wrongly deducted and a bonus,
"A small token as our apology for the inconvenience caused" the LTA spokesman said.
The LTA reiterated in its reply to my paper that the 16 KPE gantries were installed together with the construction of the expressway as part of tunnel infrastructure to enhance safety.
"This will allow LTA to activate the ERP gantries to manage congestion expeditiously, should congestion build up inside the tunnel in the future," the spokesman said.
"Similarly, the ERP gantries will be activated only when the congestion threshold is breached."
The KPE is a 12km expressway with a 9km-long underground tunnel, and will be opened fully for use on Sept 20.
Last week, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Transport Teo Ser Luck had said in Parliament that, for example, should there be a fire, vehicles may be trapped and the tragedy will 'multiply manifold' if the vehicles are lined up, bumper-to-bumper.
Hence, by having the gantries already built, there will be no time lag in dealing with congestion should it build up.
On the 'small token' offered by the LTA, Stomp forum contributor counterstrike commented: "Wow!Pay $2 to get a $10 CashCard."
However, fellow forum participant Growiser said: "What about those commuters who have paid taxi drivers the ERP charges and have no receipt as proof."
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The RAT is out of it's hole !
Mitsubishi is the CULPRIT for the sufferings of ALL Motorists in SinKapore.
The current ERP System by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was REJECTED by Japanese consumers ... and Mitsubishi dumped it into Sinkapore.
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$10 CashCard for those charged wrongly at KPE gantry
http://motoring.asiaone.com/Motoring/News/Story/A1Story20080905-86018.html
A TOTAL of 538 motorists were taken by surprise on Tuesday when they went through an Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantry at the new Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE).
The gantry is not meant to be operational yet, but the motorists were charged as they passed through it.
One of them wrote in to citizen- media website Stomp and said:
"I was driving through the KPE tunnel towards the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) exit at around 12pm and was surprised to be charged $2 at gantry 82."
Stomp contacted the Land Transport Authority (LTA), which said that it will refund motorists who were accidentally charged at the KPE gantry between 11am and noon that day.
A spokesman told my paper that the erroneous deductions amounted to about $800.
The spokesman explained the incident:
"Between 11am and noon on Tuesday, ERP contractors from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, while carrying out routine testing, accidentally activated one of the Phase 1 ERP gantries at the KPE slip road exit to PIE at Sims Avenue.
"LTA has made arrangements to refund the motorists for the amount that had been wrongly deducted with a $10 CashCard."
The amount covers the fee which was wrongly deducted and a bonus,
"A small token as our apology for the inconvenience caused" the LTA spokesman said.
The LTA reiterated in its reply to my paper that the 16 KPE gantries were installed together with the construction of the expressway as part of tunnel infrastructure to enhance safety.
"This will allow LTA to activate the ERP gantries to manage congestion expeditiously, should congestion build up inside the tunnel in the future," the spokesman said.
"Similarly, the ERP gantries will be activated only when the congestion threshold is breached."
The KPE is a 12km expressway with a 9km-long underground tunnel, and will be opened fully for use on Sept 20.
Last week, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Transport Teo Ser Luck had said in Parliament that, for example, should there be a fire, vehicles may be trapped and the tragedy will 'multiply manifold' if the vehicles are lined up, bumper-to-bumper.
Hence, by having the gantries already built, there will be no time lag in dealing with congestion should it build up.
On the 'small token' offered by the LTA, Stomp forum contributor counterstrike commented: "Wow!Pay $2 to get a $10 CashCard."
However, fellow forum participant Growiser said: "What about those commuters who have paid taxi drivers the ERP charges and have no receipt as proof."
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