Get Home Safe? Think Again!

Better play safe! Do not board the express or tour buses during this coming festive season!

If we have muddle-headed halfwits in the Transport Ministry and the Road Transport Department (RTD), honestly, I do fear for the passengers’ safety!

If we have officers from RTD going undercover “posing or pretending” to be passengers (which in actual fact, everyone on board a bus IS A PASSENGER). Silly me!

The enforcement officers will be “observing and recording” traffic offences committed by the drivers like overtaking on a double line, using a mobile phone while driving, exceeding the speed limit and maybe even lighting a fag. All these offences will be noted down and at the end of the journey the driver will then be hauled up and given the summonses.

See the headline of The Star (Wednesday, 26th January, 2011) and the accompanying picture. Three “happy” people – one smiling, one laughing and one most probably smiling or laughing behind the magazine! He looked highly comical. Seriously this is not a joke!

I’m at a dead end because I really don’t know how the enforcement works! You mean the drivers of the buses would be given a “free reign’ to drive however they want until they reached their “final destination”? What if they never make it to there? What if another mishap occurs along the journey?

This is nothing more than a perfunctory enforcement! RTD, you can do better than that! You’re not restoring but destroying confidence!