I don't really find the damned logic in the BSEP deployment
scheme.
You see, the system that works now is that those svcs with
>80% buses will get BSEP. And the bus is one split shift bus.
But what sucks is the rapid registration of the BSEP buses and now
all the BSEP buses are running around JUST BECAUSE of the fixed
rule that BSEP buses MUST stay on their perm svc and the BSEP buses
MUST perm the svc they are allocated to. This takes time, and in
the end the BSEP buses run around at svcs that have low demand and
leaving some higher demand svcs neglected.
I mean, why can't BSEP be more flexible? Why waste time looking
at svcs and allowing the BSEP buses run on all sorts of crazy
low-demand svcs when it could have alr been into good use on svcs
that have crowding problems for a long time, such as 27. And why
one bus at a time? The buses are coming faster than the lists of
svcs coming out. And it could also have been used for making svcs
Wheelchair-accessible, such as the HGDEP svcs. And why must BSEP
always be Citaros? For example svc 120. Why can't svc 120 use KUBs?
And why can't svc 4 use a few B10Ms? It has the destos
anyways.
These are yet to be solved. Not saying the status quo of BSEP is
very bad, but just hope a little reorganisation can get the
commuters a less crowded bus quicker.
These are very minor topics according to me. Your comment that
BSEP buses run on low-demand svcs is not true according to me. If
you see 3347, 3348, 3349 they are always running on either
55/70/72/76. 3355H runs mostly on 168.
And why does sv 120 even need KUBs. The Citaros go empty. Why
does sv 4 need B10Ms when newer WAB buses are available for
it.
Of course there is scope for improvement but the major issue is
SBST has done such a good job with fleet upgrade and additions that
with BSEP now they are not sure which service to deploy
on.
What is your take? Which AMDEP/BRBP services should get
3347/48/49? Which BNDEP / CGBP service should get 3355H?
Apparently, even 3354K is spare right now and not on sv 17 as some
claim.
