B’ERP

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That’s the sound the gantries make after they’ve automag­i­cally deducted your cash money from your cash card. B’ERP.

And there’re more of them, these hun­gry gates of automagic cash money deduc­tioninger­ing, announced the LTA, mak­ers of these gantries, today. This comes a day after the nation’s gantry mak­ers announced that COEs (automagic pay­ment of cash mon­eys by car buyer) for small cars have dropped to an all time low.

So, there’s really no worry for prospec­tive small car buy­ers. The money you are going to spend tak­ing a tour of the country’s fine gantries can be recouped from the money you save buy­ing your new small all-time low COE car.

Cur­rent own­ers of small cars might think, “hey, nabeh, I paid so much COE, I should be exempt from the new charges”. But the gantries, they do not dis­crim­i­nate. And… wait a minute, I’m one of them cur­rent own­ers of small cars!

“Hey, nabeh, I paid so much COE, I should be exempt from the new charges”.

But you know, the Trans­port Min­is­ter says if road usage is not priced, roads will be over-used, result­ing in wide­spread con­ges­tion. This is really true. The roads around the ERP roads are said to teem with vehi­cles hov­er­ing and wait­ing for the ERP time to end in the min­utes before ERP time ends. This is no good for the envi­ron­ment! I say put gantries up on these roads too. ERP all of them! ERP ERP ERP ERP! That’ll teach us to drive!

ERP!

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