Raise Fares At Selected Stops

Read this off TodayOnline.com, from a letter by reader Nicholas Ng:

Despite a public outcry, it seems that fare hikes are inevitable.

The lower income group will be the worst hit. To shield this group from the hike, I propose raising fares at the exit gates of MRT stations they frequent the least — such as Tanjong Pagar, Raffles Place, City Hall, Dhoby Ghaut, Somerset and Orchard.

Further, this measure can be implemented by restricting this hike between, say, 7.30am and 9am from Monday to Friday.

Almost all commuters alighting at these stations during that period are office workers.
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What this? ERP for MRT rides? Obviously, from his tone, this guy is not in the labour force.

It's really a mystery why the Today Paper would actually allow this kind of immature letters to be published. Maybe their intention was to let us all have a good laugh, admist all the furious arguments over the racial issue, and the bus fare hikes.

Then again, maybe if they made it compulsory for the reader to submit their NRIC number together with the letter for publications, we might realise that such letters come from 14 or 15 year old children, who lack the foresight to look at the big picture.

Good practice for their 'O' Level English papers though, where they might choose an argumentative essay to answer.

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I remember there was once a reader who wrote in during the heat wave in March, pleading for the National Parks Board to "water all the hotspots in Lim Chu Kang area" in order to prevent the bush fires from occurring again.

Wh...wha...what???!!! Does this guy even know how large the Lim Chu Kang area is? Is this guy a Singaporean? Does he even know how precious water is to our people, and our government, ever since the Repulic went independent on the 9th August 1965?

Think of it logically: Would the government waste water by watering all likely hotspots, all of which do not have a 100% guaranteed chance of burning up? Or would it be better to respond to actualy bush fire sites only when they have started burning up?

I'm not sure, but maybe this fella buys all the numbers from 0000 to 9999 in every week's 4D to guarantee a chance of himself winning.