May be I am wrong, I should have just send it over, like these readers... (well, some other thoughts I wrote, on Society and Education related page...)
Friday, June 29, 2007
Bus Assault - follow up
Reference the part that I removed when sending the letter to the St and Today in "Transport operators should stop being a cry-baby", I was worried that the press will discard my letter simply because they are afraid of the authorities' power.
May be I am wrong, I should have just send it over, like these readers... (well, some other thoughts I wrote, on Society and Education related page...)
May be I am wrong, I should have just send it over, like these readers... (well, some other thoughts I wrote, on Society and Education related page...)
Thursday, June 28, 2007
These authorities do not have the intention to bear the responsibilities
I can't believe it!
Why like that one? The Tripartite Committee of the 'Cycling on the footway' study (ie, the LTA, Traffic Police and the Tampines Grassroots Organisations) are those who are in-charge in the study but yet they are not prepared to bear the responsibilities of any consequences that may arise after the decision is made.
As mentioned before (also refer to comment from the other general publics), the trial at Tampines may be ‘successful’ as it is being ‘monitored’.
In the end, someone must announce the result and give the ‘green light’ to go ahead to allow the cyclists on the footpath. By doing this, the ‘decision’ has made, and the ‘Tripartite Committee’ must be the one who announce it, right? Who else?
The statement: ‘the decision on whether to implement shared footways between cyclists and pedestrians will ultimately rest with the people themselves.’ is senseless and clearly an indication of trying to push the responsibilities to the general public. I really don’t believe I had read the letter like this from this group.
Another issue from the reply, which also link to the doubt we had for the Singapore Police Force.
Also refer to the earlier post regarding the ‘bus driver bullies’ case, will police take action when public call 999 or make a police report on the accident involved the cyclists on the footpath?
Why beating around the bushes and pushing us general public around like a fool? It only make us lost confident on the authorities. Sign… why like that one?
This is the reply by the Tripartite Committee of the 'Cycling on the footway' study.
These are the responses from the general public.
Why like that one? The Tripartite Committee of the 'Cycling on the footway' study (ie, the LTA, Traffic Police and the Tampines Grassroots Organisations) are those who are in-charge in the study but yet they are not prepared to bear the responsibilities of any consequences that may arise after the decision is made.
As mentioned before (also refer to comment from the other general publics), the trial at Tampines may be ‘successful’ as it is being ‘monitored’.
In the end, someone must announce the result and give the ‘green light’ to go ahead to allow the cyclists on the footpath. By doing this, the ‘decision’ has made, and the ‘Tripartite Committee’ must be the one who announce it, right? Who else?
The statement: ‘the decision on whether to implement shared footways between cyclists and pedestrians will ultimately rest with the people themselves.’ is senseless and clearly an indication of trying to push the responsibilities to the general public. I really don’t believe I had read the letter like this from this group.
Another issue from the reply, which also link to the doubt we had for the Singapore Police Force.
Also refer to the earlier post regarding the ‘bus driver bullies’ case, will police take action when public call 999 or make a police report on the accident involved the cyclists on the footpath?
Why beating around the bushes and pushing us general public around like a fool? It only make us lost confident on the authorities. Sign… why like that one?
This is the reply by the Tripartite Committee of the 'Cycling on the footway' study.
These are the responses from the general public.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Transport operators should stop being a "cry-baby"
I felt disturbed reading the report “Attacked on bus drivers up; SBS fights back (Today, June 22) and the reply by Singapore Police Force “bus bullies’ incidents (No Scot-free ride for bus bullies, Today 26/06/2007).
Transport operators should stop being a cry-baby and the authorities should not send the wrong messages to them. There are countless of letters from public asking them to improve on their services, and we see some buses and long-buses jamming the yellow boxes during the peak hours, I even encountered a case where a bus flashes it high-beam and horn just because I stopped in-front of the yellow box, happened to block his way of existing the bus bay. Should I move into the yellow box just to allow him to exit and should I keeps writing the complaining letters about all these small issues too?
There are many factors for things to happen. Perhaps it’s time the transport operators seriously reflect on themselves and their way of operation. They had been complaining not enough profit, motorists not giving way to the buses and now being bullied by the commuters. Would all these happened if they had improved on their services, be polite and give way to the other motorists too? Please do not expect everything nice under the sun to be yours. It takes two to Tango.
(The follwoing was removed when mail sent to STForum and Todays' Voice):
Besides, I think police should be fair to all public and not bias to certain groups. I don’t understand why police would only ‘view the assault of bus drivers seriously’, ‘response immediately and take firm action against the assailants’, and ‘will proceed to seek the necessary powers to lawfully investigate and prosecute the offenders’, while the other cases on attacked on individuals (considered voluntarily causing hurt) as reported in some news previously, needed to go for medical check up, obtained the magistrate court order before the action can be taken.
See this too: http://forums.keeptouch.net/archive/index.php/t-73051.html
Transport operators should stop being a cry-baby and the authorities should not send the wrong messages to them. There are countless of letters from public asking them to improve on their services, and we see some buses and long-buses jamming the yellow boxes during the peak hours, I even encountered a case where a bus flashes it high-beam and horn just because I stopped in-front of the yellow box, happened to block his way of existing the bus bay. Should I move into the yellow box just to allow him to exit and should I keeps writing the complaining letters about all these small issues too?
There are many factors for things to happen. Perhaps it’s time the transport operators seriously reflect on themselves and their way of operation. They had been complaining not enough profit, motorists not giving way to the buses and now being bullied by the commuters. Would all these happened if they had improved on their services, be polite and give way to the other motorists too? Please do not expect everything nice under the sun to be yours. It takes two to Tango.
(The follwoing was removed when mail sent to STForum and Todays' Voice):
Besides, I think police should be fair to all public and not bias to certain groups. I don’t understand why police would only ‘view the assault of bus drivers seriously’, ‘response immediately and take firm action against the assailants’, and ‘will proceed to seek the necessary powers to lawfully investigate and prosecute the offenders’, while the other cases on attacked on individuals (considered voluntarily causing hurt) as reported in some news previously, needed to go for medical check up, obtained the magistrate court order before the action can be taken.
See this too: http://forums.keeptouch.net/archive/index.php/t-73051.html
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