ALL petrol grades have breached the $2 mark, hitting 2 1/2-year highs, following the latest price increase of four cents a litre last Friday. The last time petrol was in the $2 territory across the board was in 2008. A litre of 92-octane petrol, the cheapest grade, is now $2.017. The 95 grade costs $2.077, [...]

DRASTIC cuts in the supply of certificates of entitlement (COEs) have put a brake on the vehicle population’s turbocharged growth rate. According to Land Transport Authority (LTA) statistics, the total number of vehicles stood at 945,829 as of end-2010, up 2.2 per cent from 2009. The car population was up 3.2 per cent to 597,746. [...]

The car rental business is up this Lunar New Year season. Industry players said that compared to the same period last year, it has gone up 25 to 30 per cent. Rental cars are a popular option to ferry family and friends this festive season. K K Ho, general manager of Popular Rent A Car, [...]

THE Shenton Way-Chinatown Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) cordon will be extended from Feb 21. There will be three new gantries in operation from that day, as the Land Transport Authority (LTA) adjusts the ERP cordon to include the Marina Bay Financial Centre as part of the larger Central Business District. The existing gantry along Central [...]

The number of people taking up lessons to get their driving licences is estimated to have dipped by 30 per cent between the period from January to September last year, and the same period the year before. At least one driving centre has, in recent months, downsized its fleet of cars because of the dip [...]