Meanwhile, I have never seen people complain about the bus
service in NUS. Happened to visit NUS last year. When I was there,
I saw many buses. It could be due to the high proportion (ratio) of
bus capacity to student population, that is why no one complains
about the bus service in NUS.
Whereas for NTU, the bus service can be better. Like I have
said, the proportion (ratio) of bus capacity to student population
in NTU is lower than that in NUS. The thing is that NTU has more
students than NUS, so naturally NTU needs more bus capacity. Try
taking bus 179/179A in the morning, together with the students of
NTU, and arrive at a lecture theatre in NTU at 8am. From what I
heard, there are many people taking the bus, and it's quite hard to
take the bus.
The other reason for suggesting a new bus service is actually
because it seems that bus service 179/179A has too many buses, that
the frequency is as low as two minutes. When there's too many
buses, it becomes very hard to manage. I am not sure if
"dis-economies of scale" is the term to describe it, but anyway, I
feel that if we create a new bus service and transfer some of
179/179A's buses to this new bus service, it would make it easier
to manage bus service 179/179A, and it would allow for a slight
increament (1.73%) of proportion of public bus capacity to student
population in NTU to match that of NUS.
As far as I know, no one complains about the bus service in NUS,
unlike in NTU where there are people complaining about the bus
service there. Well, NUS has Clementi Bus Interchange, NTU has Boon
Lay Bus Interchange. NUS has Kent Ridge MRT Station, NTU has
Pioneer MRT Station. The infrastructure is about the same. I do not
see why the proportion of bus capacity to student population cannot
be the same. If we make the bus service in NTU the same as the bus
service in NUS, I am sure no one would complain about the bus
service in NTU.
By the way, I do not think it is only one person complaining.
Maybe there is only one person complaining on social media, but for
the many other people, they are either complaining on other
platforms or simply regarding it as a daily routine of having to
struggle to get to school on time using public transport.
I do not understand the negativity here. You all say that it is
very good; no need to improve, but do you all actually know the
actual situation on the ground? Probably no.
By the way, what is wrong about being a concerned citizen and
caring for the community? I do not understand the opposition here.
Sorry.
Since you have pointed out that "for the many other people, they
are either complaining on other platforms or simply regarding it as
a daily routine of having to struggle to get to school on time
using public transport", how can you conclude that nobody is
complaining about NUS?
Visit NUS yourself so that you know what I mean...