Sunday, July 11, 2010

Subway on the Street

Here is an interesting article about solving problems of transport in a city.

My views
I am in favor of having certain raods that are dedicated for use by buses. Cars can use these roads, but they have to pay a heavy ERP fee (but they enjoy congestion free). Here are some of my ideas:
  • The bus should operate on short trips with a flat fare
  • The flat fare has to be paid on entry using stored value cards (i.e. no cash payment)
  • For longer distances, the commuter has to changed buses
  • The buses uses dedicated roads, which are relatively congestion free
My sugestion is for a system that can take care of most commuters. People who do not have stored value cards or do not like the flat fare can take other buses that operate on a distance-based fare. Anyway, all train rides require a stored value ticket anyway, so why not make it compulsory for buses?
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 11, 2010 11:13 AM

    I heard another interesting perspective on the ERP.

    There are so many ERP gantries now;
    + with charges that change over the course of the day
    + motorists can no longer figure out what is the cheapest route anymore
    + so they no longer care and go back to using the shortest route
    + thereby defeating the original purpose of ERP

    To control road usage using price;
    + motorists need to know what the prices are
    + in order to make a rational, logical decision

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  2. AnonymousJuly 11, 2010 1:13 PM

    Does it matter? shortest route, cheapest route?
    The fact remains that money is being paid to use a road.
    Drivers could not care more.

    This where the ERP is such a sucess in terms of earning its capital expense.

    What I dont see as logical is the desire to own a car in the world's most expensive place to own one!
    Perhaps it is now elevated to a status symbol - car = big salary.

    We cant drive our bunglow around to show off can we??

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