More ERP gantries - Government stupidity or greed?

Pasting below the contents of an email that I have just sent to: raymond_lim@mot.gov.sg; janice_quah@mot.gov.sg; mot@mot.gov.sg; cindy_lim@mot.gov.sg; soffy_hariyanti@mot.gov.sg; harold_lim@mot.gov.sg; lok_hong_leng@mot.gov.sg; neo_lay_yiing@mot.gov.sg; jasmine_tan@mot.gov.sg; verene_cheong@mot.gov.sg; evelyn_quek@mot.gov.sg; nazrana_zainuddin@mot.gov.sg

Rather than implementing ERP across the board like what you are doing, you should conduct an in-depth study of what exactly causes the slowdown on the roads and expressways or take a drive around the roads of Singapore.

You would find among other things that:
1. "clever" drivers who continuously zigzag their way through the expressways and other roads cause a significant slowdown behind them as other drivers have to slow to avoid the inconsiderate ones.
2. vans and lorries that jump without much warning into the middle lane of expressways slow down other people behind them.
3. motorcycles that can be seen in virtually every lane of expressways slow down bigger vehicles behind them because the motorcycles often drive in the middle of the lanes, thus overtaking a motorcycle ends up being as much work as overtaking another car.
4. the right-most lane is often not the fastest as vehicles have to use these lanes when they have to turn right into smaller roads. Not all roads in Singapore have a special right-turning lane and often that lane is too short.
5. the biggest slowdowns every morning along the TPE happen:
- from Exit 10 to slightly after Exit 9 due to merging from "clever" drivers who find it faster to take Exit 10 and rejoin the traffic further ahead
- and right after Loyang mostly due to poor road planning as the entrance to the PIE is way too close to the Loyang exit, thus ending up in a big slowdown with drivers along the TPE seeking to join the PIE and drivers from the Loyang exit worming their way to join the TPE towards Changi Airport and the ECP.