新加坡公共巴士与大选的关系 = General elections and public buses of Singapore

• Main Author: 谢颂芳 Chia, Song Fang
• Other Authors: Cui Feng
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: Chinese
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Language::Chinese
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165103
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

新加坡的公共巴士服务不同人群。主要服务新加坡公民、居民与选民的公共巴士服 务，特别是在一个选区之内的公共巴士服务，享有更好的服务。主要服务新加坡旅 游景点与工业区的公共巴士服务，享有次等的服务。虽然公共交通（简称“公交”） 的价格全国统一，但服务有差。其中一个原因是，新加坡的公共巴士服务往往会影 响一个选区的候选人的投票。一个选区内的公共巴士服务，往往反映那个当选的议 员的服务与能力。议员对完全在自己的选区里面的公共巴士服务路线享有更多的管 辖权。对于这种路线，议员比较容易向陆路交通管理局（以下简称“陆交局”）提出 修改公共巴士路线、成立一条新的公共巴士路线、增加巴士的趟次来减短乘客的等 候时间、增加双层巴士的频率等建议。跨选区的公共巴士服务不在一个选区议员的 管辖范围之内，因此议员难以对这些路线做出选民要的修改。这是官僚制带来的其 中一个后果。本文通过研究新加坡所有的公共巴士路线，来证明大选中的选区影响 公共巴士的服务质量。 Singapore’s public bus services have standardised fares. However, public bus services that predominantly serve resident citizens and voters are of higher quality as compared to public bus services that serve predominantly tourist attractions and industrial estates. One reason is because the quality of the public bus services serving residential estates will and has affected the number of votes the incumbent party (not candidate) will get in the next election. Residents can easily complain to their Member of Parliament (MP) about a bus service in their constituencies. The MP has a substantial amount of power to improve the service quality of a public bus service in his or her own constituency, but has limited power to do the same for public bus services that serve other constituencies too. This is an inevitable outcome of bureaucracy, where responsibility is clearly divided among bureaucrats. Matters that need the cooperation of more than one bureaucrat is most likely to result in lower efficiency and responsibility pushing among the bureaucrats concerned.