Isn’t our extremely expensive COE and ridiculous ERP system trying to serve the similar purpose? Only the rich can drive, and the rest f… off the road.

Replace word "Dubai" with "Singapore".

yawn.....

I agree with the Direct General. Perhaps the press has twisted the words he used.

Dubai has plenty of subsidies for fuel and vehicle registration fees. What you find is that people are buying used cars for less than $1,000 and not only congesting the roads but also creating massive pollution.

In any other place in the world, such road users would most likely use public transportation rather than use their own cars given the costs involved.

Restrictions? Glad? I think I see the same thing here in Singapore. Same thing, same demands, same cost-of-living-on-the-road. Same ol' same ol'. Just maybe the words used are more "polite" here ;)

If all the riches is using the road. who is the one sending all the delivery and transport their fuel?

The road is meant to be for all motorist, it cannot deter the poor to not use the road just because they cannot get the shiokness from their V8 engine.

I believe this is what we are trying to achieve with the new financing restrictions, erp, taxes, increasing maintenance costs, etc.

Looking forward to their luxury buses!

So should we be glad we don’t have to face such restrictions here YET?

Singapore is already like Dubai, where only the rich can afford over $70K for a piece of paper to register their cars. Midle income people are buying cars in Singapore but many are stretched beyond their financial means. Just look at the no. of relatively new repossessed cars put up for bidding.

Ideas for a certain someone to consider "porting" over to Singapore?