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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Rising Cost of Living
I was interviewed for a story on The Star Metro, published today on the rising cost of living for city dwellers. Below are my comments and excerpts from the article. What do you think?
“The reality is that city dwellers have no choice but to use private vehicles for travel because public transportation is unreliable, unavailable in many highly dense districts and of poor quality,” he said, citing car ownership ratio in Klang Valley is 99:100 (2002), compared to 10:100 in Singapore (2004).
“Hence, Malaysian urbanites face greater financial stress than their comparable Singaporean counterparts because the proportion of disposable income is substantially lower,” he added.
