Wednesday, June 10, 2009
PRIORITY SEATS vs RESERVED SEATS
Have u ever noticed recently that some of our MRT trains have changed their special seats label? From Priority to Reserved! And do you ever notice any changes or impact it has created??? NOTHING at ALL!
What does a “Reserved” Tissue at a CBD hawker centre mean to u? I would say majority of the usual lunch crowd will not purposely sit on these reserved chairs & tables. At a restaurant with tables having the “Reserved” signs, any walk-in customers will not consider sitting onto these tables unless they really have made a reservation with the restaurants beforehand.
How about in the trains? The word “Reserved” would make a totally 100% twist. Who cares or bother about the word “Reserved”, even though in their mind that there are aware that these seats are meant for the aged, pregnant, special needs people. Will they leave the seats empty for these special needs people? Just like the way they leave seats with reserved tissues or signs on tables? NO WAY right? They just sit onto it. And if they are down in luck as any special needs people has board the train, then they stand up and give way to them. Some of them after sitting down, has so heavy butt that they can’t stand up anymore till they reach their destinations.
I simply don’t understand why they can’t treat all RESERVED seats the same way? A lot of the developed countries have special needs seats in their public transport. These countrymen are able to develop the self-inbuilt discipline, by avoiding & totally NOT sitting onto these reserved seats unless they fit into that category. Why us, the Singaporeans who seem to be knowledgeable & yet refused to learn these nice courtesy behavior?
Notice the 3 or 4 signs on the reserved/priority seats? Aged, Pregnant, Carry Kids & maybe the handicapped. I noticed that if you fulfilled 2/3 or 2/4 of the criteria, chances of you getting the special seats is 80%. If u fulfilled 1 of the criteria, chances of getting the seat are 50-50 bah. Pretty sad hor? When can it be increased to 100%? I understand that there are lot of special needs people ard.. and sometimes, more than 1 special need people board the train at the same time. But my comparison above is when the seats are occupied by a non-special needs person.
When will everyone changes for the better???
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