Nature of bus enthusiasts... Strangely many of them love SMRT
much more than SBST.
Just like how many can spam so many posts about the bendy
special departure on 979 on its first day, or about the O405G on
979 today. Even saying SMRT's BSEP services never get
boring... Trying to cover up the fact that 979 has majority
rigid fleet?
On the contrary, 118 is full fleet DD since its 1st day and
nobody cares.
I'm not sure whether you will say you are a bus enthusiast, but
judging by your presence here, I'm sure you are. But nonetheless,
if you or any other persons want to see yourself as an unrelated
self styled transport/urban planning analyst, then at least get
down from whatever ivory tower you are in and recognise that there
are bus enthuasists who are not plainly obsessed with a certain
company without any justification.
The fact is, while the pro SMRT camp here usually have to work
harder to come out with reasonable, justified arguments, the pro
SBS camp here likes to attack SMRT and their supporters without
really giving justifications, or giving justifications based on
SMRT's performance in the past. Its bad when an LTA decision on
fleet allocation becomes a blame game against SMRT.
Yes, if you say 5 years ago, I will agree that SMRT is not as
good as SBS. But over the past 5 years, SMRT has been the one at
the forefront of implementing customer oriented initiatives,
especially the past year. SMRT had been the only one engaging the
public regarding buses, and has upgraded using their own resources,
a number of bsep services.
Sure, there is room for improvement from SMRT, but some are
deriding it, saying not enough or giving the same old its useless
etc, but instead of demanding it to appear instantly, how about
wait and see. I would suppose even SBS and SMRT themselves are
waiting and see, especially in unchartered territories for the bus
industry.