Fijileaks: Will FFP government order every bus in Fiji to fit ramps for disabled passengers since it boasts its champion of non-discrimination? Bus companies received 18c per litre rebate on fuel in return for concessionary fares for school children. This agreement was particularly beneficial to bus companies without school routes
The only beneficiary of the e-ticketing are Vodafone with thousands of dollars pouring into their bank account and the Government which claims it will help FIRCA to monitor income of bus operators - as if its the drivers who are thieves. What about someone who hitches a lift into town and wants to hop on a bus back home? He or she must not be forced to carry a card around the clock. What about a chief who has been drinking home brew under a mango tree in another village and has left his travel card at home? What about villagers and rural dwellers who might be only coming for a day to visit someone in hospital, relatives or attending a funeral? Why should they be ordered to have a compulsory Vodafone travel card? There are hundreds of other instances and examples which has not been thought through by this Government. How many Government Ministers, including Bainimarama and Khaiyum, will be using public transport? Zilch! What about poor households who can't afford to put food on the table but who will have to fork out money to ensure every family member has a pre-loaded electronic value Vodafone CARD to travel on public buses? We call upon all political parties, especially FFP, to reveal if among the party donors were bus operators, who seem to have blamed 'thieving bus drivers' for financial black holes!
VODAFONE STORES OPENING HOURS: 8AM TO 5PM
1 October 2017: Bainimarama launches the e-ticketing card and everyone must have one before they can board a bus in Fiji
"E-ticketing has been introduced as one of the means to prevent revenue leakage in the bus industry and to ensure there is transparency in revenue reporting by bus operators. The system will allow the Government, LTA and other regulatory agencies to make accurate assessment of operators’ revenue /financial status..."
The Consumer Council of Fiji, 7 April 2013
TRAVELLING in style on taxpayers expense without A TICKET on display
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UNHEALTHY EXAMPLE: Health Minister Rosy Akbar flouting traffic laws and parked without any TICKET!!!!!!!
eTransport is a government regulated fare payment system that now requires the travelling public to pay their bus fare through an electronic means. From 1st of October, 2017, passengers on public buses will no longer be allowed to pay their bus fare using cash. Cash fare will be completely replaced with an electronic ticketing system.
Therefore, all passengers traveling on public buses will need to register for an eTransport Card available at no cost and have these cards pre-loaded with electronic value to travel on public buses.
The travelling public in London are required to use Oyster card, Visitor Oyster card or contactless payment card to ensure that millions of people are transported faster from point A to Z. This writer, however, has experienced the trickery some retail outlets employ when approached to top up an Oyster card for a pound or two; since the commission they get is minimal, the retail outlets would claim either the machine is not working or they are too busy. The moment you mention how about over five pounds, they will immediately drop everything and run and top up your Oyster card.
But in most parts of England the public have a CHOICE; take for example the historic city of Oxford where, if you are a regular traveller, you are advised to buy the so-called electronic SMART card (with many benefits), otherwise you can buy a ticket from the driver:
As a committed environmental campaigner I always cycle but in certain cases (like extreme bad weather etc) I take the bus and pay the driver:
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ARE there any Government or Opposition MPs including Bainimarama and Khaiyum in this long queue waiting for their mandatory bus cards?
Fijileaks: This E-Ticketing FIASCO could also turn out to be A TICKET for the voters to KICK FFP Government off from the driving seat of power but as we have argued, SODELPA under the Coupist DRIVER Sitiveni Rabuka, must not be handed the wheels of Fiji's destiny in 2018. SODELPA have no right to assure Indo-Fijians that their safety and security will be protected because the party is supported by the chiefs and the vanua; if anything, they MUST accept to be ruled by INDO-Fijians who are FIJIANS by birth. Why should Indo-Fijians kow tow to SODELPA, and express gratitude for the assurance? Those advocating that Rabuka be voted Prime Minister in 2018 have no moral right to condemn Bainimarama from aspiring to be re-elected. A coupist is a coupist. Under Rabuka, the racial and religious demagogue, we could be slapped with another SUNDAY travel ban like the one he imposed in 1987. He made it illegal on Sundays to operate buses, taxis or other means of public transport; anyone caught flouting this dictator's decree was to be JAILED or fined, for GOD had whispered to him in his sleep to carry out COUP! Ironically, the hardest hit from this 'Lucifer's' decree were native Fijian churchgoers who were forced to walk miles to reach their lotus!
Fijileaks: We don't know what would have been Fiji's fate if this COUPIST had won the 1999 general election?
