Complaint King

This post is regarding Singapore's news and how local events have been affecting us lately & tremendously. I hope this gets through to whoever seriously reads it.
http://www.petitiononline.com/polybus/petition.html

As indignant as I feel about this one-sided, narrow-minded policy, I cannot stress and rekindle how everyone has been holding a firm ground against it, because the policy-makers know it and understand us. It's rather useless to say any more since we're reiterating the same old, but explicitly valid arguments. I beseech the legislative parliament to do a better job passing bills. Redundant or not, it's the citizens who have to face the barrage of repercussions.

Some complaints WE advocate:

Equality - institutional equality, please! Is it an absolute to segregate the rights of the institutions? What did we do to deserve such an injustice on a silver platter? Why are there over ten thousand students rampaging their grievances through a petition? What ever happened to democracy?

Irony - am I using the wrong word or should it be hypocrisy? Public transport is an accessory of transportation, meant to impregnate a sense of convenient accessibility. The purpose of public transport is the rationale by which we take it, is it not? If this rationale is dissuaded by spiking prices and tardy timings,
who's to assume responsibility then? Can't blame the surging number of private vehicles the moment people are tall enough to reach the pedals.

Declination of economical ecology - now, I'm not really a genius in pre-empting or calculating the stock markets and whatnot, but even a completely ignorant couch potato can tell where this is going. How are people stricken with the unfortunate disease of poverty be any better, since even concessions reek of high expense (let alone those without them)? Will parents burn holes in their pockets larger than when they sent their kids to school? Will kids, who have acquired their own ideals as teenagers, grow toward or against the authorities for presenting such an unnecessary hindrance to their studies?

Exorbitant fares - I wonder if supplies are being cornered and demands are being exploited as a pretext to, once again, increasingly withdraw money from Singaporeans like we're some kind of personal ATM machine? Let's see - taxes, road funds, school fees, transportation, etc have been getting on our nerves. Otherwise, I certainly hope the 'extracted dough' is kneaded frugally and effectively. Consider an appropriate analogy to us the cherry on top.

At the end, I'm making a disclaimer that some of these arguments were inspired or directly translated over from the comments in the above online petition website. I really love what you guys have been writing and how all of us share a similar sense of righteousness in one country. One people, one nation, right? Also, I don't mean to judge those in power (although the impression you have so excruciatingly given us is presumptuous and prejudiced), but I would suggest y'all do some soul-searching on propriety and who is it that is serving whom.

Cheers
The Bernian