The SMRT ‘Ushers’

Instead of increasing the number of trains to relief the daily squeeze on its overcrowded trains, SMRT employed an army of maroon clad ushers at its station to ensure that each train trip is packed to its capacity.

While I laud SMRT’s ‘charity’ in providing employment for the senior citizens, as most of the ushers are older folks, I am not particularly fond of the hectoring dishes out by these folks when they getting herd us – cattle-like, in tin cans we call trains.

Getting into a train is already a stressful affair. Commuters do not need further advice on how to pack ourselves into our ‘world-class’ transport system.

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