Subsidy savings: Buy ’em luxury buses
Art Chan Mar 15, 06 3:50pm
I did not really bother about the billions the government claims it will save in subsidies with the diesel price increase. The amount is too much for me to fathom. And I have a niggling feeling the billions will be lost somewhere in the distribution channel. And come next year, we will be no better off than from today.

But when Wong SP in his letter worked out that the savings are an equivalent to RM366million a month, it got me excited. I did a quick check with some bus companies and found out that the beautiful express coaches with 26 luxurious seats plying the North South Highway costs about RM500,000 each.

At this cost, we can put 732 units on the road every month. And we can certainly use it to improve public transport within the city. Imagine our luxurious city buses, plying the streets, shaming all the best cities in the world. No where in the world does a government provide such buses as public transport. Truly, we will lead the world.

In a few months, we will have so many of such luxurious buses on the road that we will certainly leave our cars at home and take the bus to work.

Then I woke up. It was just a dream.

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