113 should maintain its current route cause school students
depend on this bus svc to get home, especially serangoon sec side,
CHIJ primary and punggol pri. Also, i
have seen several commuters utilising this bus service from HG Ave
8 to kovan instead of a 10min walk to hg mall bus stop to wait for
82 to kovan or 119 to kovan.
However, if 113 can cut short
following 107's route to kovan also good lah cause can save 2km
distance fare, attracting more ppl to queue up at HCI and take this
bus svc instead.
Bus stops only got buses to HCI at upp serangoon road and hg ave
8 only got 74 and 147. 113 is needed to make sure that there is a
bus every 10 mins at least to HCI.
113 should have a system like 179A that skips several bus stops
and use shortcuts to reach peak bus stops such as kovan
station.
The prob is.. schedule too tight, buses always go off schedule.
What can SBST do with only 7 buses for a 16.7KM route?
As for HCI, not every bus is empty. At times i can see fully
seated 113. Esp rainy days. I have seen queues as long as 325's one
but not as 161/27.
113 can have the dds from 119 cause the load from kovan is huge.
Loading alr takes 5 minutes itself. Off peak most of the load come
from hougang st 21 fc bus stop. Peak hour load mostly from kovan
station itself.
I would have bought your argument if not for the fact that I
live at HG Ave 8.
Correct. I take 113 quite frequently to and from Kovan to
home.
But if you think I would support your claims that people like me
contributes to the need for 113 to have DD, think again.
For starters, 112, 101 provide direct links. 113 is just
an option to me.
Secondly, again depending on which part of Ave 8, there is also
107M, 82.
So.......do I care about 113 having DD, not withstanding the
peak-hour crowd you mentioned (seriously there are many other
services that are full at peak/school hours)?
Nope. Not at all.
