transport minister talk big

I was surfing The Straits Times' website earlier today and happened to read an article titled "Ministry to focus on transport service quality".

The first paragraph of the article was unbelievably shocking. Shocking in the sense that it is a big lie that has been told for countless of times.

It was mentioned that Lui Tuck Yew aka the PAP minister who is always seen taking public transport but hardly improving the system noted that more needs to be done to increase the standard of transport here.

He informed that his ministry is examining how much to reduce intervals between trains during non-peak periods. He also said that the current quality of service delivered by operators are not good stringent enough.

Well, I say why not reduce ministerial pay, starting with him, and use the money to improve the transportation infrastructure in Singapore? The money can also be used to subsidize transport fares for the elderly.

It is obvious that Mr Lui is just being a copycat to Raymond Lim who was succeeded by the former as Transport minister after talking big and doing nothing much year after year.

Since he is from the unpopular PAP, Mr Lui is likely to follow in Mr Lim's footsteps and be given the boot out of the Cabinet for being a canon king (da pao wang). Then, he wouldn't even dare to step into an MRT anymore for fear of being booed out of the train.