Err ERP!

Just got back from India and the latest news I hear was that ERP will now be applied even on Saturdays from 12pm to 8pm on Saturday on Orchard road (correct me if I am wrong)! The reason from the relevant authority was to ease traffic flow during the weekends and hence additional ERP gantries were put up.

I wonder if the authorities ever wondered that the people, actually like the traffic on the weekends in and around Orchard Road. Because it does make the city feel more "ALIVE", buzzing, exciting and more like any other big cities around the world. Like New York, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo etc.etc. And it should be the perogative of the individual to WANT to get stuck in traffic in Orchard road on a Saturday.

Who wants to go to Orchard road on a Saturday when it looks like a dead city?? We want the city buzz! We want the traffic and we want a break from PAYING ERP on a weekend to help ease the already heavy cost of living in the Lion City!! An empty Orchard road make one feel very depressed....add on to that, the ERP....sighs

And If the authorities really want to ease traffic flow in Orchard road, what about the human traffic?? Maybe they should start a human ERP kind of thing along Orchard road and make the pedastrian pay as well!!

That will really ease the traffic in and around Orchard road and yes, it will then be very good business for all the shops in and around Orchard road........Lower traffic equals higher return (somehow!)....to compensate for the sky rocketing rentals in that area.

But then what do you think will happen to the traffic around Orchard road once these gantries are up? They will be congested somewhere else la, (like a balloon u squeeze one end the other end will balloon)......and a year or two down the road...ERP gantries will pop up in those areas as well...and then, what do you think will happen to the traffic in these areas?? They will all be in Malaysia....spending money there instead of paying ERP in the Lion City....