Can imagine once the circle line is up, there will be more cases of "cheating" :bsmilie::bsmilie:
Train commuters who cheat
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Can imagine once the circle line is up, there will be more cases of "cheating" :bsmilie::bsmilie:
If I understand the fare correctly, it only mention one fare, from station A to station B. It did not mention anything about if you travel from station A to B via the shortest way or the furtherest route. So technically, you can travel from from city hall to Jurong west via the NS route, change to the EW route to reach Rafles place or you can just travel from city hall to rafles place. whichever route you choose, you are still technically "not cheating" because the SMRT did not in the 1st place says you have to take the shortest route. correct me if I'm wrong as I seldom take MRT nowadays.
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If I understand the fare correctly, it only mention one fare, from station A to station B. It did not mention anything about if you travel from station A to B via the shortest way or the furtherest route. So technically, you can travel from from city hall to Jurong west via the NS route, change to the EW route to reach Rafles place or you can just travel from city hall to rafles place. whichever route you choose, you are still technically "not cheating" because the SMRT did not in the 1st place says you have to take the shortest route. correct me if I'm wrong as I seldom take MRT nowadays.
Shortest route... And, I.....was.....jjjjjjooooookkkkkiiiiinnnnnggggg.......
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Someone has been reading TOO MUCH wikipedia and doing too much Google-ing! :bigeyes:
In the absence of a 'routing guide' you can assume it's via 'shortest path' between your intended stations. This is the normal way such systems work out their fares and routes.
Back tracking one or two stations is no longer the shortest path.
However commuters all over the world have been known to do this 'trick' of heading in the wrong direction one or two stops to get ahead of the crowd and get a seat.
Even if it's explicitly not allowed, it would be a brave railway staffer who tried to stop the practice and the newspapers would be full of negative publicity rather quickly.
Another common practice internationally is to 'over shoot' your station and catch the train back - e.g get an express train that doesn't stop at your station but hop off at the next major station past yours and catch a 'local' back. Singapore doesn't have that occuring as MRT trains are always all stops.
With the MRT routes getting longer they might have to consider transverse seating and enable a higher proportion of sitting passengers - the trains as they are now are designed for high peak loads and you can get more standees on a train than seated passengers, so they have 'optimised' to a predomiantly standing layout to get the high passenger to floor space ratios. If you start putting transverse seating instead of the current logditudinal arrangement, more passengers would get a seat, but each train would have a lower maxium carrying load - so longer waits to actually get onto a train in the peaks.
So do you want a seat or trains so full they can't take on any more load at many of the city centre stations and you have to wait for 1 or 2 to go past before you can even squeeze on?
very good point.
with longer waiting time, people will again complain so the frequency will increase.
The consquence of lower capacity and increase frequency will eventually lead to ..... INCREASE FARE.
I see a possibility that in future, the number of seats in MRT is going to decrease to squeeze in more people. That has happen to some of the new buses on the road. With the recent implementation of allowing folded bicycle in the bus and MRT, it may be a good reason to create more space in the MRT by reducing number of seats.
haha im surprised this thread is still alive...
these kind of complaints in the forum column, should see them as "distractions"... no prizes for really finding out the real reasons behind publishing really silly complaints in the papers. This seat cheating one is as bad as the other "Stop hell notes burning, do internet/bank transfers instead". A really laugh. :bsmilie:
these kind of complaints in the forum column, should see them as "distractions"... no prizes for really finding out the real reasons behind publishing really silly complaints in the papers. This seat cheating one is as bad as the other "Stop hell notes burning, do internet/bank transfers instead". A really laugh. :bsmilie:
Has anyone been to a Japanese rush hour train? i lived there for 2 years and i'm a heck of a glad i can even stand here without someone's elbow in my face the entire 30mins ride. Sure this is Singapore not Japan.. but its just a point i'm trying to get across... there are more important things like some have mentioned.
Just for fun's sake.. in a japanese rush hour train.. you can actually lift up your legs and your body won't fall down cos it is squeezed between so many people... its unbelieveable but true.. i've tried it myself... warranting stares from people supporting me.. kinda funny..haaha..
Just for fun's sake.. in a japanese rush hour train.. you can actually lift up your legs and your body won't fall down cos it is squeezed between so many people... its unbelieveable but true.. i've tried it myself... warranting stares from people supporting me.. kinda funny..haaha..
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