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Maybe Lui Tuck Yew, who has been so coincidentally photographed taking a bus and a train, should be photographed walking in a railway tunnel next.
If we wish to take the train, we might have to bring along oxygen tank, or at least a fire extinguisher, for the sake of ventilation. If we decide to take a bus instead, we might, for once, get more than we pay for under the distance-based fare system. Of course, there is always the possibility of taking a cab (since dismal bus and train services are income opportunities for cabbies and those who do nothing but buy cabs and collect rent). The small price to pay lies in the numerous surcharges and the days with 32 peak hours. Admittedly, the last claim is erroneous.
The fact is that, these days, taking a cab is an impossibility rather than a possibility because we cannot even get a cab when we need one. The only solution left is to walk. Just make sure that the walkways are not flooded or else we would have to swim instead. Swim while praying hard that we will not bump into a floating corpse. I cannot decide whether Singapore is a comic dystopia or a dystopian comedy.
- http://mollymeek.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/transport-woes-manifestations-of-the-singaporean-rot/
If we wish to take the train, we might have to bring along oxygen tank, or at least a fire extinguisher, for the sake of ventilation. If we decide to take a bus instead, we might, for once, get more than we pay for under the distance-based fare system. Of course, there is always the possibility of taking a cab (since dismal bus and train services are income opportunities for cabbies and those who do nothing but buy cabs and collect rent). The small price to pay lies in the numerous surcharges and the days with 32 peak hours. Admittedly, the last claim is erroneous.
The fact is that, these days, taking a cab is an impossibility rather than a possibility because we cannot even get a cab when we need one. The only solution left is to walk. Just make sure that the walkways are not flooded or else we would have to swim instead. Swim while praying hard that we will not bump into a floating corpse. I cannot decide whether Singapore is a comic dystopia or a dystopian comedy.
- http://mollymeek.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/transport-woes-manifestations-of-the-singaporean-rot/
