The full title was initially intended to be "Has BSEP resulted
in more congested bus interchanges/terminals?", but due to word
limit for thread titles, we'll just stick with infrastructure.
I feel that this issue does deserve a thread of its own given
its great disparity compared to other issues related to BSEP such
as its overall benefits and disadvantages to bus service
standards.
Since 2012, the BSEP has saw the introduction of more than 50
new/amended bus services around Singapore to enhance connectivity
between residential estates, industrial estates, the CBD and
MRT/LRT stations.
However, the addition of more bus services may also have
resulted in greater congestion in existing bus
interchanges/terminals. While interchange expansions have been
announced for Punggol, Sengkang & Tampines and other bus
interchanges/facilities are only used temporarily: to be replaced
by possibly larger or unfortunately smaller-sized bus
interchange/terminal facilities.
Excluding the addition of BSEP buses to existing non-BSEP
services, the BSEP saw the addition of the following list of bus
services to the following bus interchanges/terminals:
Bus
Interchanges
35 and 35M operate at different timings, therefore overall it is
still considered one service at any point of time and did not add
on to the total services operating before the extension.
Boon Lay Interchange overall
has two fewer bus services as 182/182M, 254, 255 and 257 were taken
out as well.
As for Bukit Panjang, I agree there is more confusion and
congestion, but due to DTL2, the bus services may be spreaded out
among the bus stops built, though whether the confusion issue will
be settled still remains to be seen in 2016.
Changi Business Park can still hold two more services, though it
occurs to me that BSEP mostly operate services to new areas; this
is what I suppose SBS Transit may have also intended to do.