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Vaporware

Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu

Lim Swee Hua: Over time, as more transport links are added, the new fare system will allow 'maximum choice and flexibility'.

This coming from a government that actively remove choices when it comes to public transportation. This is the government who removed bus routes when MRT came on line. This is the government who artificially limited price competition with bus services going into town and call it Premium service. This it the government that artificially divided the island into two different monopolies and call it competition. This is the government who promised investment in GPS technology in buses meant real time tracking and reaction to road conditions, but when a pedestrian bridge got knocked into, the only choice for bus commuters were to either walk or wait for 6 hours.

Choice and flexibility? Forgive me if I simply don't believe you, Ms Lim. We have a term for this kind of empty promises in the tech industry: vaporware.