There’s no reason for a private Singaporean person to own a car in Singapore as the public transport is so good. So it’s expected to have policies to heavily discourage car ownership and this can be treated as an additional “tax” on the wealthy.
Singapore has a FANTASTIC public transportation system. Use it.
Oh great, I guess Gen-Z is going to kill the Singapore auto and auto sales industry…
now owning a car will be even more of a flex on poor people
Isn’t it a 10 year certificate? So that headline is just click bait?
Anyway Singapore is one of those countries where a car isn’t needed at all. A bike and public transportation is more than enough.
In some countries it’s enough to buy a house and car
Public transport is plenty but inefficient. A car is still faster. It takes me 20 minutes to drive to work but 90 minutes to take the train and I have to transfer 3 times.
Of all the nations on the planet, Singapore has to rank pretty low on the list of countries where driving a good way of getting around.
Libertarian utopia folks.
I bought a car a few years back when the COE wasn’t that crazy. Best decision. Public transport is good when you don’t have kids, it’s way too inefficient if you have young kids.
Two coworkers from Singapore sometimes come down to one of our US sites to work. One owns a small car there while the other doesn’t. The one that owns the car says the main reason is so he doesn’t have to spend so much time on public transit. He said public transit takes about 80-90 minutes to get to his work while with his car he can get there in 20. He says their public transport is good but saving about 2 hours of transit time each work day is worth it despite the high cost of ownership.
Just out of curiosity. If you are living in a neighboring city outside Singapore, can you drive to Singapore without having to pay for this certificate?
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OK. I take 5. Cheers.
There’s no reason for a private Singaporean person to own a car in Singapore as the public transport is so good. So it’s expected to have policies to heavily discourage car ownership and this can be treated as an additional “tax” on the wealthy.
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I mean, [our public transport](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WZFnVNvQ4U&ab_channel=RMTransit) is good enough that you don’t really need a car.
Singapore has a FANTASTIC public transportation system. Use it.
Oh great, I guess Gen-Z is going to kill the Singapore auto and auto sales industry…
now owning a car will be even more of a flex on poor people
Isn’t it a 10 year certificate? So that headline is just click bait?
Anyway Singapore is one of those countries where a car isn’t needed at all. A bike and public transportation is more than enough.
In some countries it’s enough to buy a house and car
Public transport is plenty but inefficient. A car is still faster. It takes me 20 minutes to drive to work but 90 minutes to take the train and I have to transfer 3 times.
Of all the nations on the planet, Singapore has to rank pretty low on the list of countries where driving a good way of getting around.
Libertarian utopia folks.
I bought a car a few years back when the COE wasn’t that crazy. Best decision. Public transport is good when you don’t have kids, it’s way too inefficient if you have young kids.
Two coworkers from Singapore sometimes come down to one of our US sites to work. One owns a small car there while the other doesn’t. The one that owns the car says the main reason is so he doesn’t have to spend so much time on public transit. He said public transit takes about 80-90 minutes to get to his work while with his car he can get there in 20. He says their public transport is good but saving about 2 hours of transit time each work day is worth it despite the high cost of ownership.
Just out of curiosity. If you are living in a neighboring city outside Singapore, can you drive to Singapore without having to pay for this certificate?