Earlier there was an announcement from Public Transport Council (PTC) that by September, they will have their fare review exercise for 2018.
Now it has been confirm where Singapore public transport fares is set to increase by max 10 cents, effective Dec. 29, 2018!
The PTC confirmed on Oct. 30 that fares will increase by a maximum of 10 cents (roughly about 4.3 per cent). If you’re wondering what’s the new fares, here are the increases at a glance:
- Adult fare (paid by cards) will increase by 6 cents per journey.
- Senior citizen and student concession fares will increase by 1 cent per journey.
- Single trip train ticket fare and adult bus cash fare will increase by 10 cents.
- Senior citizen and student bus cash fares remain unchanged.
- Monthly concession passes and adult monthly travel passes remain unchanged.
If you wondering why is there an increase in fare now?
This is because that the PTC noted that public transport fares have dropped for the past three consecutive years, by a total of 8.3 per cent:
- In 2015, fares dropped by 1.9 per cent.
- In 2016, fares fell by 4.2 per cent, and
- In 2017, fares dipped a further 2.2 per cent.
Thus this has resulted that it’s time for them to adjust the pricing for the public transport fare. Not so good news for us consumer but still need to bare with it