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18-12-2013, 06:50 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
Petition against SMRT’s fare hike and limited boycott (http://www.tremeritus.com/2013/12/16/petition-against-smrts-fare-hike-and-limited-boycott/)
http://images.dmca.com/Badges/dmca_protected_sml_120n.png?ID=f11d7371-0ef1-483b-888a-04e8d2ba2e94 http://www.tremeritus.org/wp-content/themes/WP_010/images/PostDateIcon.png December 16th, 2013 | http://www.tremeritus.org/wp-content/themes/WP_010/images/PostAuthorIcon.png Author: Online Press (http://www.tremeritus.com/author/online/)
http://www.tremeritus.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Capture21-251x300.jpgDear friends from the press,
We are organising a petition drive against the impending SMRT fare hike next year and a limited boycott of its services in the month of December.
Protestors against the hike are encouraged to sign up a petition here (https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Transport_minister_Mr_Lui_Tuck_Yew_We_call_on_you_ to_reject_the_SMRT_fare_hike_in_2014/edit/).
We are also organising a limited boycott of SMRT in the month of December by asking people to carpool, cycle or walk to work in a show of peaceful defiance against the impending fare hike.
Carpoolers are encouraged to contact us so that we can group them up together during the month of December.
Singaporeans have faced up to all sorts of price increase recently and so far we could not do anything to reverse the trend.
Everything seems to have gone up except for our pay package and many people are struggling to live from hand to mouth.
The SMRT fare hike is proposed even when the transport giant reported that it has made $120 millions net profit last year which is ridiculous.
We also take issue with the fact that SMRT train rides have been less than desirable and that overcrowding is still a problem here. It will be a mockery to increase fares when productivity is still not there.
We hope that Singaporeans will step up actively to campaign against such unreasonable fare hike in future as a matured civil society.
The month-long campaign will be peaceful and non-violent in nature and we ask as many Singaporeans as possible to join us in saying “NO” to a transport fare hike next year.
Thanks & Warmest Regards,
Gilbert Goh
Organiser
Movement for a better Singapore
Editor’s note: This email has been forwarded to Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?170810-AssMRT-Made-120M-Profit-But-Insists-on-Hiking-Fare!&goto=newpost).
Petition against SMRT’s fare hike and limited boycott (http://www.tremeritus.com/2013/12/16/petition-against-smrts-fare-hike-and-limited-boycott/)
http://images.dmca.com/Badges/dmca_protected_sml_120n.png?ID=f11d7371-0ef1-483b-888a-04e8d2ba2e94 http://www.tremeritus.org/wp-content/themes/WP_010/images/PostDateIcon.png December 16th, 2013 | http://www.tremeritus.org/wp-content/themes/WP_010/images/PostAuthorIcon.png Author: Online Press (http://www.tremeritus.com/author/online/)
http://www.tremeritus.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Capture21-251x300.jpgDear friends from the press,
We are organising a petition drive against the impending SMRT fare hike next year and a limited boycott of its services in the month of December.
Protestors against the hike are encouraged to sign up a petition here (https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Transport_minister_Mr_Lui_Tuck_Yew_We_call_on_you_ to_reject_the_SMRT_fare_hike_in_2014/edit/).
We are also organising a limited boycott of SMRT in the month of December by asking people to carpool, cycle or walk to work in a show of peaceful defiance against the impending fare hike.
Carpoolers are encouraged to contact us so that we can group them up together during the month of December.
Singaporeans have faced up to all sorts of price increase recently and so far we could not do anything to reverse the trend.
Everything seems to have gone up except for our pay package and many people are struggling to live from hand to mouth.
The SMRT fare hike is proposed even when the transport giant reported that it has made $120 millions net profit last year which is ridiculous.
We also take issue with the fact that SMRT train rides have been less than desirable and that overcrowding is still a problem here. It will be a mockery to increase fares when productivity is still not there.
We hope that Singaporeans will step up actively to campaign against such unreasonable fare hike in future as a matured civil society.
The month-long campaign will be peaceful and non-violent in nature and we ask as many Singaporeans as possible to join us in saying “NO” to a transport fare hike next year.
Thanks & Warmest Regards,
Gilbert Goh
Organiser
Movement for a better Singapore
Editor’s note: This email has been forwarded to Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?170810-AssMRT-Made-120M-Profit-But-Insists-on-Hiking-Fare!&goto=newpost).