Welcome to Singapore. A country where there’s always someone complaining about how much a car costs here, thanks to COE. The automatic response to this is, “Yeah, but who asked you to buy a car?” And then if that’s not enough, someone else will chime in, “You want us to have traffic jams like the ones in Bangkok, issit?” And they’re not wrong. The COE system has definitely meant that there are a lot less cars on the roads in Singapore. But is it the best way to reduce cars in Singapore?