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

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