Much has been said about the welcome changes which Arriva, the new bus company, will be implementing come July 3.
We have heard about low-floor air-conditioned buses, new bus termini, more customer-friendly and retrained drivers, schedule punctuality and late evening service, but little or nothing has been said about the new fares we will be paying.
With a couple of weeks to go, I would have expected either Arriva or the Transport Ministry to at least publish the fares, seeing that they are still unavailable on their websites.
Why is it that up to now the new bus fares haven’t been given importance?
Is the new service going to be free of charge, I wonder?