I don't know man, the very fact that it is subsidized means that they could definitely improve parts of the service here and there. I don't really ride the MRT though.
I don't see prices for train operations going up over the years as there is no marginal difference in how a train operates regardless of how many people ride it, or how many people stay in the stations to ride a SET number of trains in a SET sequence between stations. |They don't run faster or more just because there are more people-they run exactly the same pace(people just cram more in the train) hence not much in a way of increasing maintenance values for each train due to more people-they didn't really increase the number of ticket slot machines too. THAT, and for the energy generation issue, the shortened service hours(cut about a hour 30 mins from 11 to 930 last train departure) mean that there's less overall train operation, meaning that there isn't much in a way of increased operation cost. If it did go higher, it really didn't increase that much if at all compared to a few years back. Only difference is that the service got epicly shittier, which will make the hike somewhat of a hard sell for people who experience it's shittiness everyday...like me.
I don't see prices for train operations going up over the years as there is no marginal difference in how a train operates regardless of how many people ride it, or how many people stay in the stations to ride a SET number of trains in a SET sequence between stations. |They don't run faster or more just because there are more people-they run exactly the same pace(people just cram more in the train) hence not much in a way of increasing maintenance values for each train due to more people-they didn't really increase the number of ticket slot machines too. THAT, and for the energy generation issue, the shortened service hours(cut about a hour 30 mins from 11 to 930 last train departure) mean that there's less overall train operation, meaning that there isn't much in a way of increased operation cost. If it did go higher, it really didn't increase that much if at all compared to a few years back. Only difference is that the service got epicly shittier, which will make the hike somewhat of a hard sell for people who experience it's shittiness everyday...like me.