PTC/ LTA launches gracious campaign onboard MRT & buses
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Hope the ads serve their purpose.
Otherwise, it will be another fruitless attempt.
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Originally posted by lianamaster:
Hope the ads serve their purpose.
Otherwise, it will be another fruitless attempt.
Don't worry - STOMPers will act as backup for PCK. Don't play play!
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nenepokey will tell you that someone slept on the reserved seat... got picture, got talk some more...
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Originally posted by sgbuses:
Don't worry - STOMPers will act as backup for PCK. Don't play play!
or maybe the STOMPers will lose their source of citizen's news on the MRT and buses if the campaign is really effective -
heard this on e EWL at Raffles Pl this morning..
so noisy
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Originally posted by AEW5001:
heard this on e EWL at Raffles Pl this morning..
so noisy
it's the same with voice annoucements on the OC500LE and tvmobile on SBST busesonce you get used to it you'll find its just part of your daily commuting experience
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As graciousness drive starts, some want penalties imposed
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/431545/1/.html
SINGAPORE: A new graciousness campaign has been launched to get train commuters to give up their seats for the elderly and make way for alighting passengers.
But given how some still refuse to do so, after years of gentle reminders, is it time to bring the stick — in the form of fines and penalties — into play?
Ms Jessie Tan, 28, definitely thinks so.
On her train trips home, she has seen seated commuters blatantly ignoring elderly passengers who are left standing for most of their journey.
"I'm all for a fine system, it would make people think more about those around them," said the executive.
Mr Donnie Jei, 33, thinks of penalties as a good deterrent but actual enforcement would be a problem.
"A lot of manpower would be needed. You'd have to hire inspectors, and spend money so they can catch people who don't give their seats to little old ladies," said the technician, who travels to work by train every day.
Asked if it would consider imposing penalties in future, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) declined to comment as it wants to pursue the public education aspect of the public education programme first.
A Public Transport Council's initiative, "A Happy Journey Starts Like That!", was kicked off on Saturday morning.
Signs for priority seating on MRT trains have been standardised — the new blue-and-white signs now indicate "Reserve Seating", as a more forceful call for passengers to give up their seats to the needy.
New floor queue lines have also been installed at 11 MRT stations, with a green arrow for passengers exiting the trains, indicating that they have the right of way.
Images of television icons Phua Chu Kang and Rosie also appear on trains and buses, asking commuters to be gracious.
PTC chairman Gerard Ee is confident the campaign will be well received. Looking at the number of people blogging or posting online their complaints about commuter behaviour, he told 938LIVE: "People are more aware and beginning to say, 'look, enough is enough, we want things to improve'."
With a graciousness campaign like this, "you're not accusing anybody of being the guilty party. You're just saying 'these are nice things to do, let's just all do it, and then all of us can enjoy using the public transport system'."
Programme service ambassadors — comprising staff and volunteers from the LTA, SBS Transit and SMRT — will be stationed at some MRT stations during the morning and evening rush hours to help commuters give way to those alighting. -
I think it seems e campaign is more focused towards e MRT on e publicity tone..
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Originally posted by jayh272416:
agree. once i took the NSL i think. At some random station (forgot what) the train went in abit slow and then stopped there. door open STRAIGHT AWAY announce doors closing and close.
always like tat one incl DBG alsobut at some station, can take own sweet time to wait for connecting train at CTH, RFP and TNM
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now PCK posters have been up on some SBST buses le..
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I would like to share an experience I had a few months back. I was seated in this almost empty train when a pregnant woman and her friend boarded at Queenstown Station. The friend asked her to take a seat but she said, its only 2/3 stops and she is tired of standing. At Tiong Bahru the seats were almost all taken up but she still didn't want to seat. At Outram the last seat was taken by a guy in army uniform. He looked at this pregnant woman and she told him to go ahead and take a seat. Now at City Hall, there are no more empty seats and the train is crowded. This bleedy woman turns to her friend and says she is tired but there is no available seat. Immediately this middle-aged woman started scolding everyone for not being gracious enough to offer a seat to this woman. She glared at the poor army guy and told him he is a disgrace to the uniform. The bleedy pregnant woman and her equally bleedy friend didn't say that they didn't want to sit in the first place. Instead the pregnant one thanked the middle-aged woman and said she is tired from standing all the way from Queenstown!!!
Why is the focus only on MRT trains? I have seen SBS bus drivers - PRC drivers - being asked questions in English. They either turn their face away and pretend not to hear or keep asking "what?" in Mandarin. Until the passengers gets tired and stop asking questions.
This morning I took Bus 95. The driver almost made the wrong turning. He refused to stop at a few stops even though communters were pressing the bell like crazy. My friend and some other passengers were trying to tell him the route in Mandarin but they said his accent was too thick for them to understand. He also could not understand them.
Graciousness needed all around. Not just for commuters to be gracious as the campaign seem to imply!
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Originally posted by Pintoneo:
I would like to share an experience I had a few months back. I was seated in this almost empty train when a pregnant woman and her friend boarded at Queenstown Station. The friend asked her to take a seat but she said, its only 2/3 stops and she is tired of standing. At Tiong Bahru the seats were almost all taken up but she still didn't want to seat. At Outram the last seat was taken by a guy in army uniform. He looked at this pregnant woman and she told him to go ahead and take a seat. Now at City Hall, there are no more empty seats and the train is crowded. This bleedy woman turns to her friend and says she is tired but there is no available seat. Immediately this middle-aged woman started scolding everyone for not being gracious enough to offer a seat to this woman. She glared at the poor army guy and told him he is a disgrace to the uniform. The bleedy pregnant woman and her equally bleedy friend didn't say that they didn't want to sit in the first place. Instead the pregnant one thanked the middle-aged woman and said she is tired from standing all the way from Queenstown!!!
Why is the focus only on MRT trains? I have seen SBS bus drivers - PRC drivers - being asked questions in English. They either turn their face away and pretend not to hear or keep asking "what?" in Mandarin. Until the passengers gets tired and stop asking questions.
This morning I took Bus 95. The driver almost made the wrong turning. He refused to stop at a few stops even though communters were pressing the bell like crazy. My friend and some other passengers were trying to tell him the route in Mandarin but they said his accent was too thick for them to understand. He also could not understand them.
Graciousness needed all around. Not just for commuters to be gracious as the campaign seem to imply!
I guess PRC bus drivers are cheaper than local ones.
More profits for the transport companies.
Woohoo.
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Originally posted by Pintoneo:
I would like to share an experience I had a few months back. I was seated in this almost empty train when a pregnant woman and her friend boarded at Queenstown Station. The friend asked her to take a seat but she said, its only 2/3 stops and she is tired of standing. At Tiong Bahru the seats were almost all taken up but she still didn't want to seat. At Outram the last seat was taken by a guy in army uniform. He looked at this pregnant woman and she told him to go ahead and take a seat. Now at City Hall, there are no more empty seats and the train is crowded. This bleedy woman turns to her friend and says she is tired but there is no available seat. Immediately this middle-aged woman started scolding everyone for not being gracious enough to offer a seat to this woman. She glared at the poor army guy and told him he is a disgrace to the uniform. The bleedy pregnant woman and her equally bleedy friend didn't say that they didn't want to sit in the first place. Instead the pregnant one thanked the middle-aged woman and said she is tired from standing all the way from Queenstown!!!
anyhow accuse. i wonder how the other passengers feel.... -
Originally posted by ^tamago^:
yesterday saw on CCL liao
PCK cme my train on CCL ... fun
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Originally posted by TIB537B:
anyhow accuse. i wonder how the other passengers feel....
bitch lah. sad kid she's gonna bring into the world. -
Originally posted by Pintoneo:
I would like to share an experience I had a few months back. I was seated in this almost empty train when a pregnant woman and her friend boarded at Queenstown Station. The friend asked her to take a seat but she said, its only 2/3 stops and she is tired of standing. At Tiong Bahru the seats were almost all taken up but she still didn't want to seat. At Outram the last seat was taken by a guy in army uniform. He looked at this pregnant woman and she told him to go ahead and take a seat. Now at City Hall, there are no more empty seats and the train is crowded. This bleedy woman turns to her friend and says she is tired but there is no available seat. Immediately this middle-aged woman started scolding everyone for not being gracious enough to offer a seat to this woman. She glared at the poor army guy and told him he is a disgrace to the uniform. The bleedy pregnant woman and her equally bleedy friend didn't say that they didn't want to sit in the first place. Instead the pregnant one thanked the middle-aged woman and said she is tired from standing all the way from Queenstown!!!
Why is the focus only on MRT trains? I have seen SBS bus drivers - PRC drivers - being asked questions in English. They either turn their face away and pretend not to hear or keep asking "what?" in Mandarin. Until the passengers gets tired and stop asking questions.
This morning I took Bus 95. The driver almost made the wrong turning. He refused to stop at a few stops even though communters were pressing the bell like crazy. My friend and some other passengers were trying to tell him the route in Mandarin but they said his accent was too thick for them to understand. He also could not understand them.
Graciousness needed all around. Not just for commuters to be gracious as the campaign seem to imply!
Sometimes cannot blame people lar.
Mood swings are pretty common amongst preganant woman...and it's not like she used a metal bar to whack your head.
Tolerance is the key. Exactly what the Stomper wants me to do after reading this remains a mystery to me. Seems to be implying that I should be more "shrewd" in "choosing" who I should help?
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1st bus to spot this: Euro V Scania!
SBS8625X and SBS8318H got this PCK sticker le
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Originally posted by JaSoNhSu92:
1st bus to spot this: Euro V Scania!
SBS8625X and SBS8318H got this PCK sticker le
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Originally posted by JaSoNhSu92:
1st bus to spot this: Euro V Scania!
SBS8625X and SBS8318H got this PCK sticker le
lots have liaoeven bus stops have e gracious posters le