Ez-link card users entering Changi Airfreight Centre...

• tranquilice

  17 Jun 03, 17:30

  At this pair of bus stops outside Pass Office at Changi Airfreight Centre (also known as Changi Airport Cargo Complex), there is a plate on the bus stop pole which roughly wrote: "Ez-link cards passengers are advised to reboard the same services (when they leaves) that brings them to the police pass office to avoid paying additional fares."
  
  What is mean by "additional fares"? Notice that the bus drivers will key something into the blue colour fare machine (What's it actually called?) before opening the door for passengers to exit and enter, when the bus leaves the checkpoint towards Nicoll Drive.
  
  Another matter, is ez-link card allowed to be used on service 170 in Johor Bahru?
  
• SBS9818A

  17 Jun 03, 18:25

  Sv. 170 passengers are allowed to use the ez-link card. I believe that when passengers alight for security check at Airfreight Center, they have to scan the card at exit reader, meanwhile driver programs the system to recognize where they boarded from and charge fares accordingly. After check they board, scan the card, the system remembers it and they pay the exact stipulated amount.
  
  
• tranquilice

  17 Jun 03, 20:07

  I have to clarify here that the passengers alight not for security check (the check is done onboard the bus), but to exchange their NRIC for a pass into the cargo complex.
  
  Example: I board service 9 and alight outside the pass office, to obtain a pass. After that, I went back to the same bus stop which I alight from, and wait for service 9 to bring me into the cargo complex. (Even if services 19 and 89 pass by, I cannot board it cause I have to pay additional fares). Same for the procedure going out of the complex.
  
  So in the above case, why boarding services 19 and 89 will cost me more?
  
• off_service

  17 Jun 03, 21:18

  Originally posted by tranquilice:

  I have to clarify here that the passengers alight not for security check (the check is done onboard the bus), but to exchange their NRIC for a pass into the cargo complex.
  
  Example: I board service 9 and alight outside the pass office, to obtain a pass. After that, I went back to the same bus stop which I alight from, and wait for service 9 to bring me into the cargo complex. (Even if services 19 and 89 pass by, I cannot board it cause I have to pay additional fares). Same for the procedure going out of the complex.
  
  So in the above case, why boarding services 19 and 89 will cost me more?
  

  I guess it's the way they programmed the system and to keep ridership regular?
• SBS9818A

  18 Jun 03, 07:52

  Originally posted by tranquilice:

  I have to clarify here that the passengers alight not for security check (the check is done onboard the bus), but to exchange their NRIC for a pass into the cargo complex.
  
  Example: I board service 9 and alight outside the pass office, to obtain a pass. After that, I went back to the same bus stop which I alight from, and wait for service 9 to bring me into the cargo complex. (Even if services 19 and 89 pass by, I cannot board it cause I have to pay additional fares). Same for the procedure going out of the complex.
  
  So in the above case, why boarding services 19 and 89 will cost me more?
  

  Same process as I mentioned above. The ez-link system is probably programmed as such.
• tranquilice

  18 Jun 03, 22:14

  Yes, I also think it has something to do with the programming, but anyone here has more details?