Club 30's "Kill the Boredom Demon" Jive Pad 151st Edition
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Well done Norway... chiu hab eaten up all ur butter supply~~!!!
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/diet-craze-leaves-norwegians-starved-butter-175955746.html
Will butter price increase???
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I think a high ownership cost is better than using ERP..
You buy a car, you would just use it
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more pictures for a friday
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ah acid
Hua Kee, the zhi cha stall inside the hawker centre de
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Originally posted by fudgester:
Frankly speaking, I sometimes think the old way (sky-high COE, low ERP) is the way to go.
The problem is that consumers tend to think in immediate sunk costs instead of long-term marginal costs. That is to say that a $20000 COE with a $2/entry ERP is much worse to them than $15000 COE with a $4/entry ERP.
Never mind if the ERP charges add up to a lot more in the long term - people consider a short-term haemorrhage to be worse than a long-term laceration.
i'd rather the low COE and high ERP.. because i use the car during non-peak periods...
anyhoooo.. if the insane COE remains, i'll just scrap the car when the COE expires and buy lots of koyok, take the MRT to and from work
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Originally posted by the Bear:
i'd rather the low COE and high ERP.. because i use the car during non-peak periods...
anyhoooo.. if the insane COE remains, i'll just scrap the car when the COE expires and buy lots of koyok, take the MRT to and from work
To me, the only real long-term solution is a really good public transport system.
Sure, we aren't as bad as, say, KL, but then again, we're also nowhere close to Hong Kong or Seoul in terms of public transport. In those places, you could walk for ten minutes in any direction and you'll bump into a subway station entrance.
The higher-ups here certainly didn't plan too far ahead, and they're only now belatedly catching up. Even then, I still have yet to hear anything about planned lines such as the Thomson line and the Eastern Regional Line.
I was an NSF when they first started building the Circle Line, and I only managed to get to use it as a PhD. At this rate, only my grandkids will get to use the Eastern Regional Line.
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fudgie not that true
Hong Kong's NT area is not served by MTR, neither is Southern HK island.. The latter will get MTR only in 2014/ 2015.
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Originally posted by fudgester:
To me, the only real long-term solution is a really good public transport system.
Sure, we aren't as bad as, say, KL, but then again, we're also nowhere close to Hong Kong or Seoul in terms of public transport. In those places, you could walk for ten minutes in any direction and you'll bump into a subway station entrance.
The higher-ups here certainly didn't plan too far ahead, and they're only now belatedly catching up. Even then, I still have yet to hear anything about planned lines such as the Thomson line and the Eastern Regional Line.
I was an NSF when they first started building the Circle Line, and I only managed to get to use it as a PhD. At this rate, only my grandkids will get to use the Eastern Regional Line.
exactly...
and since the system is already operating way over capacity, i don't know what they can do with the current system apart from attempt to spread it out through other lines...
with that, they're not helping the issue by building systems which cannot handle the capacity either...
oh well, i'm off to run some errands...
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Anyway..
HK if it's the typical people...
How to put it. If you're at the NT heading to work at HK Island, you've not much alternative than the buses which is overloaded.
Even if you get the KCRC to Hung Hom, you've to queue for buses w/ 3000 ppl at any time...
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would we ever become like new york or tokyo where private vehicles would become the domain of the super rich or the masochistic ? where most sane people would stick to taxis or the tube ? ....
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I think it's only ppl insanely put high bids for COECOE is fine example of human behaviour why car ownership would be kept expensive.
That said, to me $40k is high enough le.
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Fatum, they gotta remove that Hillview Rd KTM bridge because it can't allow double decker buses to pass through.. Though there isn't SBS buses plying except 170 in tat area.
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once upon a time 40k would get you a brand new car.
people used to chut corollas for the price of a COE nowadays. the one major problem, really, is the taxi companies bidding in the sub 1.6k category.
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Originally posted by sbst275:
Fatum, they gotta remove that Hillview Rd KTM bridge because it can't allow double decker buses to pass through.. Though there isn't SBS buses plying except 170 in tat area.
170 turns into hill view meh ? ....
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Originally posted by Fatum:
once upon a time 40k would get you a brand new car.
people used to chut corollas for the price of a COE nowadays. the one major problem, really, is the taxi companies bidding in the sub 1.6k category.
Ends up there's no stability for that Cat.Anyway, the whole taxi financing and fare structure dun make sense actually.
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Originally posted by Fatum:
170 turns into hill view meh ? ....
Wat I want to mean is, sekali next time got double decker bus plying?The govt dun seem going to allow bendy buses to be purchased anymore
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I think the goverment has to realize that private entities are only efficient at making a profit, but they may not be the most efficient mechanism for providing a public service.When lui tuck yew gabbled on about the efficiency of privatized public transport system i facepalm'ed
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Actually zheng hu can't micromanage the ops part of things.
Even Taipei MRT is not direct runned by sewer serpents.
Thing is, right now here, there's no communications.. Zheng hu isn't providing the decent infrastructure, and they can't be bothered w/ operational aspects of buses or trains.
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1 example for which actually I'm not supposed to say it..
It was the at the CIQs...
I was figuring wat's wrong why 170 buses could be so erratic in freq... To realise the CIQ has no 'govt', buses aren't moving at all.
Everyone is just waiting for buses to be filled before moving off... But it didn't make sense, as a good 1/4 would just 'walk out' to Woodlands Centre aft clearing CIQ.
I realised can't blame 170 buses for such delays.. Then zheng hu couldn't be bothered at first, saying up to them to settle the ground ops.
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Originally posted by sbst275:
Actually zheng hu can't micromanage the ops part of things.
Even Taipei MRT is not direct runned by sewer serpents.
Thing is, right now here, there's no communications.. Zheng hu isn't providing the decent infrastructure, and they can't be bothered w/ operational aspects of buses or trains.
it doesn't have to be, just make it a statutory board. the most important thing i believe, is to take away the profit orientation of public transport providers. you yourself said it before, the goverment invests and pays for the infrastructure, then a private entity comes along and runs it.
Efficiency from the standpoint of a private sector company = maximium number of passengers on the minimium number of trips. So we have people squeezed like sardines during rush hour, and more than half an hour waits during off peak hours.
Efficiency from the standpoint of the commuter = maxium number of trips available per day, throughout the day.
what that lui fellow said was pure, 100% virgin, unadulterated bullshit.
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Originally posted by Fatum:
it doesn't have to be, just make it a statutory board. the most important thing i believe, is to take away the profit orientation of public transport providers. you yourself said it before, the goverment invests and pays for the infrastructure, then a private entity comes along and runs it.
Efficiency from the standpoint of a private sector company = maximium number of passengers on the minimium number of trips. So we have people squeezed like sardines during rush hour, and more than half an hour waits during off peak hours.
Efficiency from the standpoint of the commuter = maxium number of trips available per day, throughout the day.
what that lui fellow said was pure, 100% virgin, unadulterated bullshit.
Tat's the MRT only.
Buses is still SBS gotta spend $$ for depot lease, buses and so on. Worst is sometimes I dun get it, they dun get perm lease for depots... Still the typical 30 yr.
Ya la... But, you gotta realise, even you ask me, I dun want to see lots of buses during off peak hrs, ends up your travelling time is little diff compared to peak hrs. Why leh? Cos along the way w/ more buses, you just gotta wait for the front buses to move off.
But till now, there's no proper SOP for off peak svs though I've figured some ideas to it.
But I'll admit, actually if ppl want to solve it, it's gotta brainwash ppl... Something like Hong Kong, the long dist bus routes wun be stopping everywhere, only at major bus stops... While the neighbourhood buses plies you to nearby major bus stops or Int or MRT Stn.
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Originally posted by Fatum:
I think the goverment has to realize that private entities are only efficient at making a profit, but they may not be the most efficient mechanism for providing a public service.When lui tuck yew gabbled on about the efficiency of privatized public transport system i facepalm'ed
you think they don't?
the MIW are only using this to maximise tax revenues... damn the common people...
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reposting this coz it's just funny
Originally posted by cassie:funniest cheer i heard over the weekend. you know the japanese term for "go go go", "keep it up" etc is "gambateh". something like "kah yiau" in cantonese. some of the cambodian kids in the villages didn't know the japanese term but wanted to shout/cheer when some of the japanese/oriental looking runners ran past...so they kept shouting "ajinomoto"
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Ajinomoto... ahhh~~~ Taste of life??? MSG FTW~~~
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my friend likens it to the chinese/cantonese saying of "kar yiau" o r "add oil" i.e. keep going etc. guess it makes sense for japanese to "add ajinomoto"