Precisely due to its stops density being so high. Ought we
provide alternatives that are faster for those in the further
end?
And not everyone likes to change here and there between lines
you know. In fact, given the nature of train transfer now majority
would obviously favour a direct, express bus over trains.
The reason why buses appear unappealing now is because LTA made
it as such. They arent doing anything to modify the trunks and
making them more suitable for point-to-point travel! Instead of
trunks doing the role of being a "street service" the feeders and
shorter regional trunks should be!
Allow me to rehash an old narrative, but This is no longer the
80's! Where money > time! Nowadays people are more willing to
use money to save time, because time IS money!
It's easy to suggest that trunk services should become more
express in nature because most stops along existing trunk services
are quite heavily utilized by commuters, even though it is agreed
that certain trunk services are really too long in nature and can
be splitted up.
If feeders/shorter regional trunks were to be introduced,
wouldn't that mean more transfers for commuters who reside near bus
stops in which the trunk services are adjusted to skip the stops,
and commuters will have to take the feeder/inter-town trunk to
transfer to the semi-express trunk. This would make it no different
from using the train instead, since commuters would probably have
to transfer about the same number of times regardless of taking the
bus or train to their destinations rather than a direct bus.
With that being said, the Fast Forward concept introduced by
SBST in 2005 is a more economical solution that can provide faster
services for commuters while not compromising necessary connections
for existing trunk services and can be implemented for more trunk
services to reduce travel time.