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15-01-2014, 11:30 PM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
The Public Transport Council (PTC) will release its decision on raising fare adjustments for public transport tomorrow and a reasonable person would conclude that fares will go up based on what Minister for Transport Lui Tuck Yew wrote on a Facebook post on Monday.
“I told (PTC chairman Gerard Ee) that the government was ready with our package for the low-income workers and persons with disabilities and that we would like to announce this together on Thursday. These two concession schemes will be fully funded by the government,” wrote Mr Lui, stressing that the schemes would make transport fares much more affordable for both groups.
Isn’t he telling the PTO, pls feel free to help out the tpt companies (and their shareholders*) because the govt (us tax-payers, including said poor and disabled: remember that they too pay GST) will absorb the increases for said groups.
Mr Lui also said that the discount under the scheme for low-income workers would lower their fares to around the same levels as 10-15 years ago, depending on the journey. Meanwhile, the discount for those with disabilities will be “even more significant”.
Hey what about retirees and those who never got pay rises?
- http://atans1.wordpress.com/2014/01/...-the-disabled/ (http://atans1.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/tpt-minister-looks-after-shareholders-the-poor-and-the-disabled/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?172757-Tpt-minister-looks-after-shareholders-the-poor-and-the-disabled&goto=newpost).
The Public Transport Council (PTC) will release its decision on raising fare adjustments for public transport tomorrow and a reasonable person would conclude that fares will go up based on what Minister for Transport Lui Tuck Yew wrote on a Facebook post on Monday.
“I told (PTC chairman Gerard Ee) that the government was ready with our package for the low-income workers and persons with disabilities and that we would like to announce this together on Thursday. These two concession schemes will be fully funded by the government,” wrote Mr Lui, stressing that the schemes would make transport fares much more affordable for both groups.
Isn’t he telling the PTO, pls feel free to help out the tpt companies (and their shareholders*) because the govt (us tax-payers, including said poor and disabled: remember that they too pay GST) will absorb the increases for said groups.
Mr Lui also said that the discount under the scheme for low-income workers would lower their fares to around the same levels as 10-15 years ago, depending on the journey. Meanwhile, the discount for those with disabilities will be “even more significant”.
Hey what about retirees and those who never got pay rises?
- http://atans1.wordpress.com/2014/01/...-the-disabled/ (http://atans1.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/tpt-minister-looks-after-shareholders-the-poor-and-the-disabled/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?172757-Tpt-minister-looks-after-shareholders-the-poor-and-the-disabled&goto=newpost).