It is very evident that a lot of people's interest in the bus
scene in Singapore is either skin-deep, or delusional to an
extent.
Please do yourselves a favour and read the news releases before wishing for buses
with wings, or duck-tour style whatevers, or speculating on
transfers like the way we change underwears.
How do you expect people to take you seriously for all the
"professionalism" in opening threads to discuss "specific
matters"?
Edit: The link doesn't work, so pasted below for your
benefit.
8. Bus
services in Singapore will be bundled into twelve bus packages with
about 300-500 buses each. For a start, LTA will tender out three
packages of bus services, starting from the second half of 2014 for
the first package, for implementation from the second half of 2016.
The contracts will be for five years, and can be extended by
another two years on good performance. In total, the three packages
will comprise about 20% of existing buses.
9.
The other nine bus packages,
comprising the remaining 80% of existing buses, will continue to be
operated by the incumbent operators.
LTA will negotiate with the incumbents to run the nine packages
under the contracting model, for durations of about five years when
their BSOL expire on 31 August 2016. After these negotiated
contracts expire, more bus services will be gradually tendered
out.
Only four bus depots (Bulim, Loyang, Sungei Seletar and Ulu
Pandan) will be other operators only. The rest of the bus depots
can be existing operators. Some of the bus depots are here to stay
and bus services will grow to about 500.
