[sgh]

I wouldn't say SimplyGo has no benefit, just that its benefits are not really conveyed to the public. I must say that the public comms failed miserably.

SimplyGo has the benefit of storing the value of the card in the servers, so that even if you lose the card you dun lose the value. 

What the govt can do better is:

i). Inform public of the advantages of the new system
ii). Make the transition period to SimplyGo-only longer, so that once majority of people have migrated, they could remove ezlink

Another benefit to the LTA not to customers would be the ease to extract customers trend and stats aka big data analytics for the business user which include policy makers for any new initiatives they want to embark on. Why I know is my last job has many such request we call it data extraction. The parameters and criteria are all different for each request. Having the data at the backend server is good.