Pardon me if I'm wrong, but did I get the notion from the
article that buses arriving slightly earlier of their timings on
those svcs tested will also be penalised?
Idk how it'll go. But there are quite a few svcs in there
whereby the BCs work out among themselves on leaving the Ints
during Peak Hours tgt or about a min apart, or even discussing at
the traffic lights with hand signals. And then they share the load
along the next few set of bus stops by picking up pax on alternate
bus stops of each other so that both would be on-time eventually at
the next Int.
By introducing this BSRF thing, it's like a double-edged sword.
Imagine one poor Citaro struggling with squeezing all the pax in
despite it being late, but the BC of the next DD on that svc
doesn't want to go too fast & help pick some of the Citaro's
pax because he would be too early.
It's as though "yeaps, the bus will come on-time no doubt, but
whether you can get on that bus, it's your own problem" ?
And then because of this BSRF, we'll have more buses crawling at
20kmh (eg Sv 39) along the expressways and making things difficult
for the other heavy vehicles using the leftmost lanes. I say this,
because the Sv 39 BCs are already practicising this habit after the
first mention of the intro of this scheme earlier on in the
year.