YOG: Last-minute ticket sales for empty seats at sold-out venues
18 August 2010
SINGAPORE : Organisers of the Youth Olympics Games are making it possible for more people to catch the action.
From Thursday, if there are empty seats at sold-out venues, officials will be flexible in allowing last-minute fans to purchase tickets.
Sports Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said venue managers will use their discretion to manage the situation. He was speaking to reporters after watching swimmer Rainer Ng clinch Singapore's first silver medal at the Games.
He said: "It will have to be first-come-first-served basis, and it will have to depend very much on the physical situation on the ground. "That's why I cannot have a uniform rule across all venues.
The venue manager will be authorised to make these decisions at a local level." - CNA/al
The question is – Why is there empty seats at sold out venues?
I think it is a know fact by now that these “sold out” tickets are actually bought by MOE (with tax payers money) to be given to their students.
Being teenager I definitely will not go for something that I am not interested in.
So why must our government do thing this way? Trying to make things look like what they are not really is.
If there is no crowd in an events then so be it. You should either make it free entry or reduce the cost of the tickets to pull in the crowd rather the let this shit happened.
I guess they are quite good at generating false statistic in this country.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
Screwed up.
I was reading through the ST forum and someone pointed out our dear Singapore Police had gazetted the wrong area during the YOG.
They gazetted National Technological University (Where the Hell is this?) instead of Nanyang Technological University.
Gosh I think someone in the SPF is going to get it this time.
They gazetted National Technological University (Where the Hell is this?) instead of Nanyang Technological University.
Gosh I think someone in the SPF is going to get it this time.
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
More fantastic idea from the brilliant Elite
Night parking fee up
Price to double to $4; first increase in 21 years
Today Online Aug 03, 2010
SINGAPORE - The car population has outpaced the supply of parking spaces to the point that night parking charges are now going up, 21 years after the last increase.
From Nov 1, non-resident motorists and visitors at public housing and Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) car parks will pay double for overnight parking: From $2 to $4.
In 1989, the increase was from $1.50 to $2.
While the 34-year-old scheme was implemented in car parks where there were sufficient lots to meet season parking needs, "most" of these car parks are so "heavily utilised" that residents with season parking tickets face "difficulties" finding a spot at night, the Housing and Development Board and URA said yesterday.
The higher charge will "better manage the parking demand" and "safeguard the interests" of season parking ticket holders, the two statutory boards added.
The half-hourly night parking charge of 50 cents will remain, though.
The new $4 night parking coupons will be on sale from Oct 15.
Motorists can continue to use the $2 night parking coupons by displaying two such coupons.
Some Members of Parliament wondered if the latest measure is enough.
Ang Mo Kio GRC MP Lee Bee Wah, who receives one complaint a week from residents facing parking difficulties, pointed out that the non-resident group is not sizeable. And while the spike in overnight parking charges "may deter some non-residents from parking", the overall number of cars - and the supply of parking lots - remain unchanged, Ms Lee noted.
Jurong GRC MP Halimah Yacob reiterated that the problem requires "proper planning, a strategy of how to ensure there's enough parking places in Singapore. And that kind of planning is not only confined to just HDB, it has to be planning on the part of the Ministry of Transport as well".
On its part, HDB is planning to add 5,000 more parking spaces in the next three years….
This is actually a really dumb “solution”. It did not solve any problem at all.
The problem of shortage of car park will not simply disappear if you increase the cost. If it does, the fare increase in 1989 would have solve this problem.
The only winner out of this fare hike is URA. They has the opportunity to generate more income.
The fact is there is a shortage of car park. The question is why?
How many percent of a car park lots are being issued to season parking holder? Did HDB/URA issued more season parking (to earn more) and therefore causing these season parking holder unable to find a parking lots?
For example out of 100 lots avail. Does HDB keep 50 lots for season holder or 90 lots?
A simple solution is to increase the percentage of lots reserved for season parking holder. This is fair as they are resident of the area and is paying a monthly fee. They should be guaranteed a parking space.
And of cause a long time solution is to build more parking lots.
What they are trying to do now is what I call the ostrich mentality. “There is no problem if you don’t see any problem” By burying you head in the ground.
Price to double to $4; first increase in 21 years
Today Online Aug 03, 2010
SINGAPORE - The car population has outpaced the supply of parking spaces to the point that night parking charges are now going up, 21 years after the last increase.
From Nov 1, non-resident motorists and visitors at public housing and Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) car parks will pay double for overnight parking: From $2 to $4.
In 1989, the increase was from $1.50 to $2.
While the 34-year-old scheme was implemented in car parks where there were sufficient lots to meet season parking needs, "most" of these car parks are so "heavily utilised" that residents with season parking tickets face "difficulties" finding a spot at night, the Housing and Development Board and URA said yesterday.
The higher charge will "better manage the parking demand" and "safeguard the interests" of season parking ticket holders, the two statutory boards added.
The half-hourly night parking charge of 50 cents will remain, though.
The new $4 night parking coupons will be on sale from Oct 15.
Motorists can continue to use the $2 night parking coupons by displaying two such coupons.
Some Members of Parliament wondered if the latest measure is enough.
Ang Mo Kio GRC MP Lee Bee Wah, who receives one complaint a week from residents facing parking difficulties, pointed out that the non-resident group is not sizeable. And while the spike in overnight parking charges "may deter some non-residents from parking", the overall number of cars - and the supply of parking lots - remain unchanged, Ms Lee noted.
Jurong GRC MP Halimah Yacob reiterated that the problem requires "proper planning, a strategy of how to ensure there's enough parking places in Singapore. And that kind of planning is not only confined to just HDB, it has to be planning on the part of the Ministry of Transport as well".
On its part, HDB is planning to add 5,000 more parking spaces in the next three years….
This is actually a really dumb “solution”. It did not solve any problem at all.
The problem of shortage of car park will not simply disappear if you increase the cost. If it does, the fare increase in 1989 would have solve this problem.
The only winner out of this fare hike is URA. They has the opportunity to generate more income.
The fact is there is a shortage of car park. The question is why?
How many percent of a car park lots are being issued to season parking holder? Did HDB/URA issued more season parking (to earn more) and therefore causing these season parking holder unable to find a parking lots?
For example out of 100 lots avail. Does HDB keep 50 lots for season holder or 90 lots?
A simple solution is to increase the percentage of lots reserved for season parking holder. This is fair as they are resident of the area and is paying a monthly fee. They should be guaranteed a parking space.
And of cause a long time solution is to build more parking lots.
What they are trying to do now is what I call the ostrich mentality. “There is no problem if you don’t see any problem” By burying you head in the ground.
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