Comments on: Want cheaper fares? Then you must pay more!

By: JoelK

JoelK — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:21:47 +0000

Or. you know. just cut minister’s excessively high pay. Just by, you know, 1.5%.

By: SeniorCitizen

SeniorCitizen — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:07:01 +0000

This Raymond Lim is really out of tune with people like us, talking about inflation and GDP to a group of senior citizens…he must be really out of his mind!!

Can’t he talk at their level and use simple laymen and ordinary language…Ahh…I forgot, PAP have no place for laymen, only elites who are capable of making decision from the comforts of their air-con comfortable office eqivalent to a 3 room flat in Singapore!!!

#63 BusHike is correct…he is just a backdoor minister who have no “feel” about the life of citizens…he is too high and almighty for all of us to understand…and it is our fault, because we are not elites like him, and we don’t earn the kind of money like he does…so we will never understand him!!

By: HaiGong

HaiGong — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:51:06 +0000

#48

The GLCs do not know how to make money outside of Singapore, so they suck all from singaporeans.

just take a look at the investments outside singapore? where are the profits?
dont boost about your profit, all come from your poor fellow citizens.

why? becose they can only do it to the citizens, we are so tame. try other countries, they will kick you out of their country.

By: Hyperbolic wisdom from the transport minister « Gerald Giam

Hyperbolic wisdom from the transport minister « Gerald Giam — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:09:21 +0000

[...] statements provoked a rather unhappy reaction from Singaporeans. The Online Citizen’s quote of his remark provoked over 60 angry responses in just 12 [...]

By: SZ

SZ — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:36:41 +0000

well, one good thing about this Raymond is the buzz he has created among netizens. before the TC fiasco die out, this 1 appear….or is this created to try to smoother the TC fiasco?

By: BusHike

BusHike — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:16:52 +0000

Raymond is just typical of those backdoor PAP MPs and ministers…sitting comfortably in his office and making policies that makes sense only to him and his PAP colleagues.

If only he can put himself at the same level of those suffering citizens…

If only he can empathize with those who counts any savings (even 10 cents) as important for their next meal…

If only he can understand that what he earned in a year could be something that a ordinary citizen may be earning in his or her lifetime…

If only Raymond Lim was not a backdoor minister being elected into parliament through PAP’s manipulative GRC system…

Maybe Raymond Lim should put himself up in a single constituency ward to contest the next election, and let people judge whether what he says make sense!!!

But I supposed he does not have any guts at all…because he is after all a backdoor minister!!!!

By: AreWe Stupid

AreWe Stupid — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:58:07 +0000

Raymond Lim Studied Economics and We are stupid or What to get answers like “This is because the public transport fare is not directly linked to the oil prices. We link it to national factors, like the inflation level in Singapore, and the wage level in the whole of Singapore.”

THIS TYPE OF ANSWER CANNOT EVEN GET ANY MARKS AT JC LEVEL >> DUMP A$$$ He think we are all primary kids

By: Gerald Giam

Gerald Giam — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:18:14 +0000

Oh the minister read my mind exactly. I was not asking for a freeze in fare hikes. Not a subsidy for the low income and elderly. I WANT IT FREE!!!! FREE!!!!!! Readers should go watch the video clip on CNA of him saying this line. It’s a picture of humility. I think he has the potential to be a mini-LKY. Just like the line about if ministers don’t get high salaries, our wives will become maids in foreign countries.

By: aiyoyo

aiyoyo — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:06:36 +0000

aiyoyo

why ELITEs take so much $ & talk like this huh???

aiyoyo

By: pumpkin

pumpkin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:46:46 +0000

Our TM must have lost it! The job of managing the transport system, managing the expectation of the people and at the same increasing the wealth of temasek-lined companies is too much for him. The spectacle of him over the TV blasting away did not make him look ministerial, cooly conveying his points across without causing offence. He appeared to be like a quarrelsome and provacative ah Beng I see at food courts ever so often!

By: richard

richard — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:20:12 +0000

Since the transport companies can apply to the PTC for approval to increase fares during good times, why can’t commuters apply to the PTC for approval to decrease fares during bad times? Why should the PTC route be one-way? PTC should also consider commuters’ request..right?

By: Chua mui mui of the hong

Chua mui mui of the hong — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:12:02 +0000

I feel that what we comment here may not change the thing.
Only 2 ways available for all to use:

1. Decision day
2. Koo koo clock stop ticking.

is that not sweet? short and sharp but fully summarised the entire universe of truth.

By: richard

richard — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:08:07 +0000

Raymond Lim has shown himself to be a very typical MP and Minister (yet to see one really humble and down-to-earth one) among the governing elites. Why are they so brave (or thick skinned)? Aren’t they afraid of losing votes next round? Sigh! :-(

By: me

me — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:03:52 +0000

”

Another MB Tan, came from the same bloody hole, a blood sucker. Pls try not to bullshit your humble citizenry, don’t treat us like a fool, we are not one of you.”

hey, of course you aint like him. he earns 2 million plus a year. you????? you pay the ERP charges everyday to pay him. =)

By: SZ

SZ — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:51:24 +0000

woa…so our gahmen has no power over this yah? then why are they drawing such a high salary when they have no say over PUBLIC transport….lol

By: Percevale

Percevale — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:36:10 +0000

Guys. He already mentioned. Government has NO SAY in the raising (ahem sorry REVISION) of transport fares. If so, then any corresponding GST increase to give us free transport is POINTLESS. Gahmen has NO SAY remember?

By: gemami

gemami — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:16:47 +0000

They more they have in the kitty, the less guilty they feel when they dip into it to line their own pockets.

By: SZ

SZ — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:18:33 +0000

all they are interested in are profits…they are earning and they wanna earn more and the more they earn, the more bonus they will get…and the cycle will repeat itself. they will use some factor that “justify” the increase, but down the road, when those factors justify a decrease, they say it is no longer relevant…something must really be done. imagine with this past few years, how the price/cost has sky-rocket

By: Loyola

Loyola — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:51:51 +0000

Gawddarn it, S$1billion in profit is hardly a loss.

Make your own conclusions.

By: James

James — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:56:38 +0000

But their profit margin is in the range of billions yearly. Unless someone justifies that the profit is required for further development of the system…