In my opinion, Even with no bendies it doesn't make a
difference. Jams will still happen, and people will still complain.
They want solve problems, yes, and no, I'm not creating problems
but I still maintain my stand that these buses doesn't pose enough
hazard to deserve the boot out of our roads. Even though it might
be a bit of fuss, but it isn't hazardous enough to be kicked out of
our roads. I firmly believe our LTA is fair and square. So long it
doesn't cause hazard to us as road users, They will be flexible and
allow it on our roads. Having bendies or not, It doesn't make a
difference. Jam-prone areas are simply unavoidable and it do happen
in our everyday life.
I still firmly believe these bendies are faultless. And no bus
interchanges are queue-less and non-jam prone. These things do
happen everyday, It doesn't matter whose fault it belongs to,
No-one can expect the interchanges to be jam-free during peak
hours.
And finally, yes, But what I meant was 'they will remove a bendy
for rigid' if they don't feel the demand there. And, Whether or not
we will see bendies still remains to be seen.
You still don't see the difference. As I have to say again, what
you believe isn't what LTA wants.
Just take a comparison between a busy bus interchanges like Boon
Lay and Woodlands. Buses in Boon Lay bus interchange can move in
and out freely without any jams or long buses blocking the ways and
exits of other buses behind. However just look at buses in
Woodlands interchange, long bus queues created because bendy buses
takes up to much space in the berth, causing other buses to stuck
inside the berth just because the trailer part blocks the path of
the exiting bus. And thus BCs behind have to honk and honk and some
overtake dangerously just to keep clear of these buses. And
according to LTA, bendy buses have the highest accident rates as
compared to SDs and DDs.
Yes, jams in bus interchanges are inevitable in bus interchanges
and bus stops. Thus the problem of bus jams and queues can be
greatly reduced if there are no long bendy buses blocking the way,
hogging the space and cause even longer queues and jams behind. If
bendies can be removed to reduce jams greatly, it will certainly
make bus scheduling much easier and efficient and reduce jams and
queues greatly, even they can't be eliminated totally. And bus
interchanges are getting smaller and more buses to be added in
future, so it is simply impractical to waste the spaces to
park these bendies instead where 12m buses can do the same job
hogging lesser spaces.
Your theory doesn't make the problem improves but continues to
make it worse. It is like when a pipe burstes with a hole, you just
plug it with a tape, instead of welding or changing a new pipe.
