"Taking the Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) scheme into the heartland will ease an expected islandwide traffic gridlock and make residential estates more liveable, Transport Minister Raymond Lim said yesterday.
Mr Lim said the money would go towards funding various government programmes for Singaporeans, including public transport and road projects."
Central Expressway (CTE) has been in traffic gridlock for years even though ERP were implemented, but never see any road expansion nor double-deck road is built. I can only see one more exit opened up at Pan-Island Expressway (PIE)which will cause more traffic gridlock soon.
On the other hand, I saw many government-funded new buildings emerged everywhere, eg. National Library(Bugis), HDB Hubs (Toa Payoh), SIR Building (Lavendar), Esplanade (Cityhall), etc.
I think we are somehow “funding” the maintenance fees for these luxurious buildings everyday.
If you said that Government encourages people to ride public transport,
but why didn’t the government returns the balance of unused COE cost if one decided to let go their car ownership?
Here, they allow to sell more cars; there, then engaging to set up more ERP gantries to collect more money.
Ultimately, it is a matter of their income (MONEY)!
“We are like an animal in Zoo, living in a cage, leaving all mosquitoes to prick generously”.
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