Bro,903,911,912 & 913 all can use DD..Only 900 & 901
need a few A24.Wldep can just take 15 A24 in future..7 for Amdep
and 18 for Kjdep.176 & 188 doesnt need bendy with so many B9TL
and upcoming B3 A95.SBST already kapo Yishun feeders,850e,851,852
& 860
IMO, for Woodlands, keep bendys only for 900, 901, 902, 911,
912, 913 and of course 858. And maybe 169A. Rest of the trunks all
can use DDs. I go to woodlands very often for work purposes and I
must say that in the last 6 months atleast, there has been a
decrease in the flux of Bendys and a increase in the number of
SD/DD plying this interchange.
And it is obvious that this isnt working out too well because
the jams in the interchange have gone from bad to worse. LTA's
logic of spamming SDs to replace bendys on feeders... yeah thats
what you get. In turn using more space because 2SDs to 1 Bendy
means more space and SDs cant board feeders as fast as Bendies when
SMRT staff open up all 2-3 doors for boarding. 911, 912 and 913
with bendysncan just alight and board at the boaring berth and not
use alighting berth if they are not the "E" variant to speed up the
process and ease the jams. Im sure SD/DD can't fit that well to
this option cos in most cases u can only do boarding or alighting
and not both simultaneously. BTW, I take 901, 903, 913 often.
All the services that have heavy passenger alighting activity at
the bus interchange, you spam SD or DD, you will cause jams because
the ratio of door to length of bus and passenger flux rate is just
too low. 3 Door buses can be an exception but still, 3 door DD for
woodlands feeders may not be ideal. Most People atm travel 7-10mins
on average for feeders and some to a max point of 12-15mins. With
Woodlands South and Woodlands North in TEL, these journey times
sure go down and in turn lesser people will even go up.
Trunks like 960, 965, 966, 969 are doing great with those DDs,
only to be clogged up by the excessive SDs being spammed into
woodlands interchange. Good time for LTA to wake up their idea.