Lots of bus seats and more “Gold Service” seats available!
There has been a few drop offs in our bus passengers recently so there are now bus seats in almost all our services. What’s the reason for the drop offs? Most told us it’s because they have changed jobs in the new year, so perhaps this is a trend that we can expect every year.
We have also launched more “Gold Service” buses. We fo..
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Premium buses with only a few passengers!
Currently, we are using 13 seater buses for our buspool services and we need to sell at least 12 seats for a bus to start.
But some of you have been telling us that you don't mind paying a higher price for a smaller bus because you prefer fewer pickup points and a faster ride to the office. Such a bus would also be able to start sooner because we wou..
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Our first night route!
After one year, we finally may have enough people who leave work at the same time, and who live around the same place, to form the first night bus!
Check out our first night route at the link below. It starts at Clifford Pier, goes to Beach Road and then off to Bukit Panjang and Choa Chu Kang.
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More communities forming!
More and more companies are contacting us to create special community pages for them. Click on the "Communities" link on the left column to see who they are. Sometimes they can be for a specific company, sometimes it's for a building, and sometimes it could be an area like our "Maxwell Road" community where there are users from a group of buildings who have expressed i..
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New buspooling providers!
Since we started our buspooling services last year, we’ve been the ones planning the routes and arranging the buses.
Starting this month, we will be partnering with other buspool providers so that more bus solutions can be offered to you. Check out our first partner, Commute Solutions, which has a route from Woodlands to Bukit Merah starting in March 2013. You can ..
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Share Transport to Malaysia!
In response to feedback, we are setting up a wall for users who are traveling to Malaysia to find each other to share transport. It seems a lot of Malaysians work in Singapore and go back quite often. This is even more so during the festive periods like Chinese New Year and Hari Raya.
Click on the link below to go to this wall. Click on the “Subscribe” button on..
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COE prices hits all time high for small cars, and it’s going to get worse.
The COE for small cars has hit S$92,000. There is not going to be any respite because the allowable growth in car population will be further reduced to 1% this year, from 1.5% last year. Next year, it is going to shrink further to 0.5%.
With COEs so high, it seems that only rich people can afford to buy cars. It is r..
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What’s up in 2013?
Our company is called Estatebuzz Pte Ltd, and ShareTransport.sg is the first website that we have launched. Next year, we will be launching more websites that are targeted at the neighbourhood, so people living nearby can cooperate for mutual benefit, much like transport sharing.
For ShareTransport.sg, we will be cooperating with other parties to provide more buspooling s..
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10,000 registered users!
Since our launch in March this year, we have gathered 10,000 registered users. That works out to about 1,200 users a month, or about 40 a day. There has been over 3,000 downloads of our iPhone app and over 2,800 buspool indications.
We only started our “Friends” module in August 2012, and since then we’ve had 664 friend requests and accepted friendships, and over 3,..
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Communities rising!
This week, people who work in the Treasury and MICA buildings in the Hill Street/High Street area started registering in our “Treasury Building” community page. So far none have offered carpooling, but 38 buspool requests have been made. We will study these requests carefully and start offering buspool services to these buildings soon.
If you work for a large organizatio..
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Add friends from the same estate!
If you see someone who lives near you at ShareTransport.sg, you might want to add him or her as ‘friend’. If you do so, you would have these benefits:
1. You would be instantly notified by email or our mobile app of your friends’ single trip postings on your regular route. This way, if you happen to be in the same area, you can arrange to share transport!
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Launch of our Community Module!
Would you like a dedicated set of pages at ShareTransport.sg for the people in your organization to meet and share transport? If so, email us at info@sharetransport.sg . You should be a part of the Human Resource Department of your organization, or some other department with the ability to communicate this service to all the staff.
We launched our Community M..
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ERP charges are going up again during peak hours.
Click on the link below to go to the LTA website for the details. For two of the gantries, the rate goes up to $5 during the periods 8.30am to 9am.
A driver who lives in the East and works in the CBD, will now have to pay $8 to get to work in the morning. Assuming that he works 20 days a month, he will be paying $160 for ERP charges for jus..
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Our 9th bus has started running!
This one goes from Simei/Katong to International Business Park in Jurong East. It is driven by 36 year old Farid from IndoLimo (in the picture below).
Farid is the business owner and he has recently expanded his business by acquiring a second Toyota HiAce minibus that comes with a High Roof and Autodoor. This is a brand new vehicle and he is using it for thi..
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Our 8th bus has started running!
This one is from Woodlands to Pasir Panjang, Bukit Merah and Harbourfront. There are still two seats left if anyone is interested. You can click on the link below to make a purchase.
This bus is driven by Chris, who is in the pic below standing alongside his bus. He has been driving for over 20 years. This route is very suitable for him because right after t..
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Put up a picture of your car!
If you drive and you are offering carpool rides, put up a picture of yourself and your car. You are likely to get a lot more responses that way. A picture of your car says that you are serious about offering carpool rides, and also gives others an idea of what you are like.
After all, the owner of a black sedan should be quite different from the owner of a pink..
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Pay until legs wobble!
The price of petrol has gone up so much that petrol costs for a typical car could amount to $300 to $500 a month!
Offer carpool rides to recover some of that!
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Recover up to $600 per month offering carpool rides!
$600 a month is a lot of money. It will take care of your petrol, parking, ERP, and a part of your installment costs. Plus, you can think of yourself as a superhero! You are saving the planet, as well as reducing the crowdedness on the MRT and buses, and the congestion on the roads!
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We are a consumption driven society
It’s all we talk about in our social gatherings: what car to buy, what house to upgrade to, what holidays to go on, which restaurants to try.
There’s nothing wrong with these things in themselves, but maybe something wrong with how our lives seem to be wrapped around attaining the next upgrade of whatever we have.
Some scientists (like those in the Gl..
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High cost of car ownership in Singapore
See the table in the attached picture. Most people have to spend about $1,500 to $2,000 a month on their cars. For many families, this is the single largest expense that they have. With COEs now at such high levels, many people will not be able to afford to buy another car when the one that they have expires after 10 years.
This is very obvious when y..
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Mobilizing 550,000 passenger cars to help solve public transport woes.
What’s missing from our national conversation about transport is carpooling. There are 550,000 passenger cars in Singapore, and when you look at them on the roads during peak hours, you will find that many are empty except for the driver.
If we can persuade these drivers to take passengers in their cars, it would help tr..
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Our 7th minibus has started running!
This one is from Bukit Panjang to Fusionopolis and Mapletree Business City. It is driven by Uncle Kenny Soon, the boss of Jovial Limo. The bus starts at 7.30am and reaches Mapletree at Pasir Panjang by 8.30am.
We have received very good feedback from the passengers about this route. The main reason is that going to Pasir Panjang from Bukit Panjang using ..
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Transport for NTU Graduate Students
This month we are working with the NTU Graduate Student Club to organize transport solutions for NTU’s 6,000 part-time Masters students. These students go for classes after work and finish at about 9.30pm. With public transport from NTU, they would have to make multiple transfers before they can get home, so the NTUGSC met with us to see if we could offer mor..
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