About 75,000 students will benefit from this move every year.
SINGAPORE – From Dec 28, graduating students entering their next phase of education or the workforce can pay concessionary fares on public buses and trains for four months after their studies.
It will apply to graduating students between two educational stages or those transitioning out of student concessionary benefits, such as junior college students going to university, added PTC. Others may have to pay adult fares for a longer period. Secondary school graduates enrolling in a diploma course at the Lasalle College of the Arts, for instance, have a transition period of about seven months, as they start school only in August.
Responding to a question on how the four-month extension is funded, PTC chief executive Leow Yew Chin said the cost of this extension is less than 0.5 per cent of the fare revenue collected each year, and is cross-subsidised by other public transport users.When asked why PTC decided on a four-month extension, Mr Leow said the aim of this move is to ease students’ transition, instead of covering the whole gap between each phase of education.
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