What can you people expect from a failed mangement of managing a
screwed up company like this?
Problems are raised every time but yet refused to admit and look
into solving the problems. They just let them be and let the
problems running... That's why always in the red for so many years.
They don't give a damn of all the problems for their bus
operations, like messy schedulings and plannings, poor and heck are
attitude of maintaining buses, poor service attitudes, poor
management and manpower issues, messy fleet variety that bleeds
money due to low economies of scales, messy fleet servicing and
parking, especially too many bendy buses, etc.
All these problems contributes and accumulates for so many years
and till present they are still sitting on these problems. The new
CEO probably needs to do something about a major revamp of the
management, style of operations and the fleet selection, else SMRTB
should just close down in years to come. It's a completely useless
investment.
Are you talking about the new CEO as in the newly-appointed one
for the entire SMRT or just the bus services division? If it's the
entire SMRT overall-in-charge, I guess you can forget it. It's
almost 100% that his focus would be on the train services 1st
before settling the buses, and look the problems with the trains
still persist. The previous Ms Saw took the same approach and I see
it likely that he'll continue this trend.
SMRT bus division is just like a burden weighing them down on
the whole. They profit from the trains, but yet they have to
cross-subsidise to cover the losses on the buses. And then the
whole company goes into disarray because of this cause in turn they
have to cut costs here & there, both on trains & buses to
make the profits for shareholders. And even then, obviously it
didn't work in reducing the losses. It seems more and more like
they're keeping the buses only as a matter of pride, cause
obviously they don't give much shit about it + the cash-cows aren't
exactly turning everything under buses profitable on the whole.
I know it's abit off-topic, but anyone read the news lately that
SMRT & LTA are only going to finally waterproof the Circle Line
cables to prevent future faults? That was stupid. That problem with
leaking water seeping into the cables & short-circuit the
cables existed
for years since the Circle Line started~ It's just
the insiders & workers who had to keep mum & force
themselves to keep using stop-gap measures here & there for the
cables. And that was only for the trains with their cost-cutting.
Like what 'carbikebus' posted, similar things happened in buses too
& its plain obvious something needs to be done with the entire
top management of the company, not just from either bus or train
divisions.~
