My views
I am in favor of having certain raods that are dedicated for use by buses. Cars can use these roads, but they have to pay a heavy ERP fee (but they enjoy congestion free). Here are some of my ideas:
- The bus should operate on short trips with a flat fare
- The flat fare has to be paid on entry using stored value cards (i.e. no cash payment)
- For longer distances, the commuter has to changed buses
- The buses uses dedicated roads, which are relatively congestion free
3 comments:
I heard another interesting perspective on the ERP.
There are so many ERP gantries now;
+ with charges that change over the course of the day
+ motorists can no longer figure out what is the cheapest route anymore
+ so they no longer care and go back to using the shortest route
+ thereby defeating the original purpose of ERP
To control road usage using price;
+ motorists need to know what the prices are
+ in order to make a rational, logical decision
Does it matter? shortest route, cheapest route?
The fact remains that money is being paid to use a road.
Drivers could not care more.
This where the ERP is such a sucess in terms of earning its capital expense.
What I dont see as logical is the desire to own a car in the world's most expensive place to own one!
Perhaps it is now elevated to a status symbol - car = big salary.
We cant drive our bunglow around to show off can we??
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