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Title: Distance-Based Through-Fares Closing Date: 28/02/2010

What do you understand by the term "Distance-Based Through-Fares�? Give us your views.

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Amir 13/08/2010 01:37:11 PM	Alot of people are paying more because of this system.
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Desmond Koh 13/02/2010 01:35:28 PM	This is one of the fairest system that I have been looking forward to. The current issue commuters are facing is that there are no direct shortest and fastest connectivity to the destination despite the numerous bus and train services that we have caused by public transport rationalization many years back and the operators work on commercial reasons. It could be just 4 bus stops away from place of origin but without a direct service, the commuter may end up taking 2 bus services with a higher fare plus commuting time. With DBT, we no longer get charged unfairly just because the bus operator assigned to the estate does not want to deploy a direct service due to profitability and feasibility reasons. One thing LTA needs to regulate is the frequency of bus services and the journey that the bus services take. An example where I had to travel from Fort Road to Telok Blangah Road/Drive - after having missed 2 bunched up Service 30, had to walk to Mountbatten, waited long for a service to travel to city hall to hop onto another bus home. The usual Service 30 took only 30 minutes the most, but the alternate transfer took 1 hour 10 minutes because of the waiting time and the winding journey the bus took. I could reach home by taxi in 15 minutes!
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ariff 07/02/2010 03:59:35 PM	Are these DBT fares related to buses only OR, will it be a replacing the current ERP for cars? Frankly, I am not in favor of it as I believe in many parts of the world public transport is subsidised by the Government. We have a rich Government and I believe subsidy here is not a problem. As for cars, there is already a high import tax, road tax, petrol cost and the "flexible" ERP system to keep motoring cost at a premium vs Public Transport. Thus there is no need for a DBT fare.
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Jun Jian Tan 05/02/2010 09:55:31 PM	Many of us know how distance based fares work but I feel that distance based fares allow for more choices and flexibilities when I am travelling. We know that transfers are inevitable when we are going from one place to place. Distance based fares encourages the idea of making transfers with no additional cost. Waiting times for buses are also shortened due to more choices available. Bus routes that go along with your intended route can then be chosen and changed from places to places. However, some issues need to be made clear. Is going to some place and then back after half an hour consider free? For example, my house is at Serangoon and I take a bus to Ang Mo Kio to run some errands and take another bus back to my house after half an hour, how will the fares be charged to me? Are the fares for taking buses and trains be charged using the same benchmark for distance or a different one? I hope that commuters like me have some idea of how the new fares are charged.
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Lim Siong Boon 03/02/2010 08:58:57 PM	Distance base fare, I think is base on the location. The bus may travel one big round from If the journey is from Serangoon to Boon Keng, then to Tampiness. Then the charges would be fair to charge the distance between Serangoon to Tampiness. Charging the longer distance from Serangoon to Boon Keng, then to Tampiness would not seems too reasonable. Therefore charges base on location to me should be reasonable. The above example is quite extreme, to bring out my point that charges should not be base on the distance the bus had travelled, but should be the distance the passenger wanted to travel. I am not sure if charges based on traveling time helps, because I do notice the buses sometimes slow down to bicycle speed throughout my journey from Serangoon to Clementi. And there isn't any jam on the road. The time taken is 2x long. If the journey time is longer than what a passenger usually expect, would a fare discount be fare? I have been a bike rider for 5 years long, but wanted to try taking public transport. It is really a discouraging incident to convert from private to public transport, after the experience. I just converted back to bike after a month of public transport. It is pack every time and slow. Most of the time, I have to stand throughout the journey. Can we get a discount for their under-capacity services.? Thank you for your attention.
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