43 firms part of Singapore's Travel Smart Network

Singapore

NO employers have dropped out of the Travel Smart Network initiative since it was launched last July and to date, a total of 43 organisations have signed up, Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew said on Tuesday.

In a written reply to a question about the Land Transport Authority's initiative to encourage more companies to allow staff to travel on public transport during off-peak periods, Mr Lui said that the 43 organisations include 12 which participated in the pilot before the launch of the Travel Smart Network. "In a survey of about 3,800 employees of the 12 pilot companies, about 12 per cent of respondents said that they had shifted…