Comments on: short notes on the fuel price hike http://xpyred.textfiend.net/2006/03/07/short-notes-on-the-fuel-price-hike/ rehashed rearranged reiterated pre-rendered Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:01:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: xpyre http://xpyred.textfiend.net/2006/03/07/short-notes-on-the-fuel-price-hike/#comment-215 xpyre Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:00:28 +0000 http://xpyred.textfiend.net/index.php/2006/03/07/short-notes-on-the-fuel-price-hike/#comment-215 I'm tempted to sound like a conspiracy theorist and say that there are vested interests in keeping our public transportation poor. There has been a suggestion that keeping public transport poor only forces the rakyat to seek alternative means of getting from one place to the other. Which means buying cars - and choices are pretty lean in this area... At first I thought privatising public transport was a good idea, but seeing how things are managed over here in JB, I think privatisation rife with crony providers is the worst combination possible. I've seen some pictures of people taking the LRT or queuing for buses; people look like a bunch of standing heads all packed together like sardines and forced into small, elongated cans :p Sometimes I wonder at the people who argue that the reduction of subsidies is a good thing; I wonder if these same people take public transport... I’m tempted to sound like a conspiracy theorist and say that there are vested interests in keeping our public transportation poor.

There has been a suggestion that keeping public transport poor only forces the rakyat to seek alternative means of getting from one place to the other. Which means buying cars - and choices are pretty lean in this area…

At first I thought privatising public transport was a good idea, but seeing how things are managed over here in JB, I think privatisation rife with crony providers is the worst combination possible.

I’ve seen some pictures of people taking the LRT or queuing for buses; people look like a bunch of standing heads all packed together like sardines and forced into small, elongated cans :p

Sometimes I wonder at the people who argue that the reduction of subsidies is a good thing; I wonder if these same people take public transport…

]]> By: howsy http://xpyred.textfiend.net/2006/03/07/short-notes-on-the-fuel-price-hike/#comment-214 howsy Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:42:30 +0000 http://xpyred.textfiend.net/index.php/2006/03/07/short-notes-on-the-fuel-price-hike/#comment-214 The core of the matter again and again is not about reducing subsidies bla bla yadda yadda. It is about how our money is utilised and the transparency behind it. If the fuel was hiked overnight, I demand that the public transport should be revamped overnight also! Hell yeah! The core of the matter again and again is not about reducing subsidies bla bla yadda yadda. It is about how our money is utilised and the transparency behind it.

If the fuel was hiked overnight, I demand that the public transport should be revamped overnight also! Hell yeah!

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