In Singapore, you can tell the class structure that a person belongs to by his or her main mode of transport: The upper class people travel by car, the middle class people travel by train, and the lower class people travel by bus.
             People who travel by car or cab belong to the upper class as these are the most expensive modes of transport in the country. Did you know that in Singapore, just the tax for an average car such as a Honda Civic is enough to pay for a brand new Civic in United States? Tax makes up a big portion of the amount that one has to fork out to acquire a car due to limited space. Singapore with a population of only four million has to allocate limited land resources in a piece of densely populated land that has an area of approximately nine hundred square miles. The insane price tag for a car is enough to deter the middle and lower class people from purchasing even the entry level cars. Another deterrent is the prices of gasoline. Singaporeans have to pay approximately four dollars for every gallon of gasoline. An alternative to commuting by car is cab. The cost of traveling by car is relatively cheaper to the cost of traveling by cab but to some, nothing beats having someone else doing the driving and swearing. Traveling 20 miles in a cab is going to set one back by approximately twenty dollars.
             The middle class people travel by train due to economical pricing and speed. The train, which is commonly referred to as MRT (Mass Rapid Transit), has a top speed of fifty miles per hour which is relatively pathetic considering the fact that most of the old folks driving an Oldsmobile on the Los Angeles freeway is going at a faster speed than Singapore's fastest train. But the ability to overcome the traffic via an underground tunnel is priceless, not literally though. One still has to pay a price for a ride on the MRT, ranging from two to three dollars per ride, depending on the distance of the journey. Despite hea
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