As I have said. Introduce 47A or something, not worth for DDs to
ply entire route when only a small stretch will receive crush
loading.
Both 12 and 31 operate at double the freq of 47. In other words,
2 12s and 31s will come before a 47. I hence don't think anyone
will specifically wait for bus 47. 47 will probably receive pax who
happen to have been waiting for any of the three svcs, and 47 comes
first (which again will be minority given its frequency)
You may wanna check out my previous post above for more of
this.
Given the nature of this route and its target passengers, an SD
is more than sufficient to cover the TM - MP sector. I think, in
fact, it will do CBP pax good with an SWT, as that would mean
significantly lower turnaround times for the DDs, allowing for
faster pax clearance.
Bro... just 2 DDs in the fleet... let's first address the
useless DDs on 102 and 119... 47 still need to evaluate and may get
better loading (we have to see).
For sv 31 I agree - frequency is awesome, but for 12, please
note the frequency is 10-14 mins, and sometimes bus can get delayed
due to super long route.
All HDBs along Bedok South road take 12/38 to Tanah Merah
instead of 38/229 to Bedok int due to quicker MRT access. Both
12/38 don't have good frequency, and this is my estimate of why 47
plies Bedok South road before doing MP.
For MP, they have only 31 to Tanah Merah that loops around Bedok
MRT, so 47 will give faster access. In future, if someone from MP
sees 31 and 47 coming, they will choose latter.
Having said all this, my personal opinion is we did not need a
new service for MP-CBP. An existing service such as 43 could have
been extended. Anyway, 43 runs quite empty b/w MP and UEC.
