Jam and ERP

Follow my entry on the TPE massive jam, it jam again today. One car broke down in the middle of the expressway and caused everybody to be late.

Coincidentally, the headline on mypaper.sg today is Heartland Gantry Trap. I read the news report with interest, I think it highlighted some key issues.

One sales executive mentioned "If you are used to driving, you won't switch back to public transport and would pay the few dollars anyway". Transport policy expert: "Once people buy a
car, they have every incentive to use it a lot."

We know the key focus of this scheme is to shift ownership cost to usage cost, but would people listen? Would they think? Sometime the answer is not straightforward.

• Usually, people is good at big figure, but neglect the small sum
• Some aspire to own a car, and try their very best to drive it
• Bus commuters would have to suffer together with them