Hi mr BusAnalyser, they do not do major restructuring of bus
routes like swapping of sbs 100 and sbs 145 at certain points which
bring about major inconvenience to most. What they will do is to
take note of the heavy sectors of both services and introduce new
services to ply along certain segments and defray some crowds after
they feel it warrants a new service. As you should know by now,
more new services will be introduced all around the island for more
direct routes, with 1st priority to connect new estates and 2nd
priority to connect less well-connected roads (either with no buses
or only few services) which is one of your favourites.
LTA needs to wake up.
Swapping routes etc can be found commonly in other countries
when they do their turn of bus rationalisation. So why does LTA has
to be so stagnant and afraid to make change?
That being said, I don't see any logical reasons for swapping
100 and 145. I'll leave it to the concerned to further
justify.
As for bus routes being too much a feeder, what I hoped LTA will
do is to get smart and reorganise all its bus routes. Svcs like 7,
14, 48, 67, 97, 175 and 195 are really shames of the entire bus
system in Singapore. It really is funny that a bus svc, that is
supposed to directly connect to the city where MRT transfers will
be tedious, will go ROUND AND ROUND small streets and towns!! Svc
like 38, 98, 112 should be the ones doing that instead, alongside
its feeders and Townlinks/Intratowns.
In fact, don't you realise LTA has been going back on their
words?? While they are saying hub and spoke, they actually get
their trunks to go round and round, completely defeating its
purpose to bring people from one place to another! And now they
only regarded the MRT as the "hub". But didn't they say something
about bus being supplements of MRT lines in the case of an
emergency? Well, imagine now a train broke down at Sengkang
station. The closest you have to the CBD is bus 80, which goes
round and round towns! I'm neglecting bus shuttle just to prove the
contradictions LTA have to you.
And so how are you gonna expect car owners to give up cars? Yes
you may say having trunks go to towns are better as they have
direct connection instead of transferring feeders to town centres,
but you see, if the trunks are so slow will they even take
it in the first place? Does it even make a difference?
Damn fail lah LTA. Everytime hear that disgusting rally of LHL
really make me wanna puke. Want good for the people? Get your asses
on the ground first lah. Car? So expensive. Train? So unreliable,
and freq/train length so cui. Bus? Long-winded and crowded. Taxi?
Choosy drivers, limited taxis, endless additional charges. Bike?
Limiter bicycle lanes, cycle on pedestrian road will kena. So what
expect us WALK 10+km to work ah? Wow what efficient workforce and
economy there uh? LTA enough is enough hor, one day you really
drive us to the corner alr ah, wait till we vote for opposition
then you know!
