Educating people to move in, educating people
to move up. Is that the
real solution?
Force a person to move in and move up who is
getting off 3 stops later, and the result is him having to squeeze
his way out or squeeze his way down. End result? You've just
blocked a bus stop and caused extra run time on your route.
You've managed to squeeze more into the bus, but at the same
time added a minute into 80 other passengers' travelling time. Did
that solve the problem? Why are the buses in SG so much slower than
in HK, London or Sydney, even with priority lanes?
The fare system now promotes high passenger turnover rates
(i.e. high change of passengers over the entire route), but is the
equipment purchased capable of supporting this?
Let me put it in another way, a bendy has 1 entrance
and 2 exits for 110 pax. A DD has capacity for the same 110
pax, but shares 1 entrance and exit for 55 pax,
worse still at only half the width. That is called the
staircase.
Effectively, once your bus is almost full, it just became
worse than a private coach! 1 single width door
for 55 passengers. And do you run coaches as urban buses?
Absolutely not!
I feel that they should just increase the no. of staircase
and exit doors...
Look at the MRT system, even when LTA removed the pole at the
center of 2 doors, passengers(from what I've observed) still will
stand there.
