North and northwest towns should have a separate terminal for
Intratowns and feeders which should be bendy-friendly and
transfer-friendly too...
Becoz trust me, using DDs for most (if not all) SMRT Intratowns
and feeders is as good as suicide...
Don't even see the need for bendy friendly interchanges. What if
SBST takes over these places or some of the services one day? And
LTA now has more pressing issues to improve services reliability,
making things standardised will only help them achieve things
faster, not the other way round.
It's wasting many limited land space just to cater for bendies
where they can be used to build other more useful structures, like
hospitals. And building standardised bus facilities helps to make
planning easier, more efficient and less costly.
Suicide is an overstatement. In that case, all SBST feeders and
intratown services will have gone terribly bad. But in fact, they
still operates better than SMRT, with better frequency SDs, and
they are still successful in using DDs on these services too. It is
all about how SMRT wants to operate and standardised their fleet to
make their planning and management easier, more organised and less
costly.
Stop living in the past and think of the future. Given SMRT
current situation, it is better that they better buck up and
makes their operations planning easier to manage to stop giving
more screw ups. Be realistic.
Hmm I don't see it that way. They are rather organised is rather
due lesser multi-models fleet in the past. Even their bendy are
from Volvo. And I guess the bendy are rejected as most of their
route requires higher capacity buses(DD). [bolded para]
SMRT can introduce DD, but the problem is the difficulties in
turning over the fleet with limited amount of $$...
Anyway, in this case, we shouldn't talk about which company is
more successful. Both operators are handling different types of
fleet leh :o
Do you know that SBS almost wanted to trial the bi-articulated
bus in the 1990s?
Money is not a problem for SMRT, since it can reap millions of
annual profits. Problem is: do they have the heart and sincerity to
walk the talk or just being NATO about improving its bus services.
Now is the best time for them to switch to DDs, since all of their
bendies are to be scrapped within the next 5 years.
