I think a government job in its highest level is to make S'porean life better.   Our political leaders have articulated that we can achieve this if we can make S'pore a World class city in terms of living standards & efficiency. 

So exactly why is LTA doing the opposite with its ban on private car leasing.  See asia1 article : http://www.straitstimes.com/Singapore/Story/STIStory_243787.html?sunwMethod=GET

WHY BAN !?!

a) Look at the model - it very efficiently serve the needs of 3 parties - owner, leasing company & potential leasee.  Govt don't lose a cent since COE etc..are the same.

b) S'prean in trouble with lease payment & you ban a perfectly good option for him to remove his liabilities?  An example that was quoted :

CASH-STRAPPED businessman Lau Cheun Kee 'leased' his 2004 Honda Odyssey seven-seater to a rental firm when his food business failed last year.
But he now faces a bigger problem: involuntary bankruptcy and possible prosecution by the Land Transport Authority.

I think LTA should instead facilitate this & devote some effort to work with  industry players to ensure that the insurance angle is covered by way of premium top up.  

Civil servants - you've a very high burden in meeting the above objectives & the nation depends on you achieving it &/or doing your part to facilitat it.  It cannot be done by "ass-covering" attitude. 

Read with interest asia1's article on "Park 'dis-connectors' not for jogging or cycling "

http://news.asiaone.com/News/the%2BStraits%2BTimes/Story/A1Story20080602-68310.html

Set me wondering, when the old politician say do something - it tends to be done.  The most famous I guess would be Mr. Lee Kuan Yew's cleanup of the S'pore river.

With the new breed - we get disconnected?  Come on, who went to sleep?  You give us a vision years ago, keep on bringing up now & then.  Can you just deliver?  Is it lack of money or of will power or lack of care to follow thru.?

Coming back to the river, I recall at 1 time it was really clean & S'pore was releasing fishes back into the river.  The smell was largely gone.  Currently based overseas, I happened to walk by the river at Clark Quay a month ago.  The smell hit me even before I reached the river & the water was really blackish.  Don't think the fish are surviving.  What happened?