Future bus planning

carbikebus SG

With the upcoming DTL and Thomson line coming up,What are your views on current bus services that serve those affected areas?I just want your constructive views only and damn SMB228 don't bother to reply Citaros only.

63 should cut the Ubi/McPherson sector and 63M to loop at Lor 1.Renumbered is better .61 think kena shortened maybe New Bridge Rd

SGCar SG

Think not much changes. CCL is a good example, no changes to bus services, unlike NEL, where many routes were amended. Now MRT are not very stable, think LTA would rather trust buses more. MRT breakdown means a lot of commuters are affected, but one bus breakdown still have another bus of same route of different routes to support.

Cheers.

No_10_Tomas SG

Now we are already embroiled in the train breakdown saga

and the spate of train delays is expected to drag on for months or even years

guess the government will demand that more resources and manpower be diverted into maintenance and prevention of future breakdowns of the current lines

This will be the more prioritized problem at hand

No time to dwell on future lines and bus rationalization

No_10_Tomas SG

One aspect of bus planning they can do is to plan and introduce more bus routes to run parallel to the train lines in case of another train breakdown

Maybe they should just suspend all train services temporarily for a few weeks to sort out the problems and deploy buses that run parallel to the train lines

SMB228X SG

Cheers.

Bus always slower. More feeders and less trunk route. Less DD needed for trunk.

sbst275 SG

Now BPLRT also rosak

sbst275 SG

Bus always slower. More feeders and less trunk route. Less DD needed for trunk.

cos we dun have much semi express routes

Give me Sv 7 and run it till Jurong East, I think sure got ppl take one... Faster than MRT via Holland Rd..

Never mind... Bus always slower, wait till MRT spoil big big and later SMRT staff can say Bus 48 got go to Buona Vista Stn after seeing 'Buona Vista' on Citaro's EDS

SMB228X SG

cos we dun have much semi express routes

Give me Sv 7 and run it till Jurong East, I think sure got ppl take one... Faster than MRT via Holland Rd..

Never mind... Bus always slower, wait till MRT spoil big big and later SMRT staff can say Bus 48 got go to Buona Vista Stn after seeing 'Buona Vista' on Citaro's EDS

Bus 171 go yishun from orchard

sbst275 SG

Bus 171 go yishun from orchard

171 was mainly to serve Bt Timah/ Bt Panjang corridor

Wrong connection intention

SMB228X SG

171 was mainly to serve Bt Timah/ Bt Panjang corridor

Wrong connection intention

MRT spoil staff can also say 171 got go to Yishun Stn after seeing 'YISHUN' on eds!!

Gus.chong SG

63 should cut the Ubi/McPherson sector and 63M to loop at Lor 1.Renumbered is better .61 think kena shortened maybe New Bridge Rd

Do you know why 63M is made to loop at Circuit Rd in the first place?

phillipC SG

Not sure will sv 67 and 170 will cut.

170 from Bt Panjang to JB.....

phillipC SG

Now BPLRT also rosak

No aircon, water leaking train. very very disappointing.

CapaCity SG

Hope svc 67 remains

Gus.chong SG

Not sure will sv 67 and 170 will cut.

170 from Bt Panjang to JB.....

Service 170 will never be cut.

carbikebus SG

Hope 170 shortened to Bt Batok.63M is to serve Ubi n McPherson area mainly workers at the industrial area.Thats why the need to 63 to cut Ubi/McPherson sector and introduced a fixed new short haul or feeder follow 63M route

sbst275 SG

170 hard to cut...

If DTL spoil, can still backup...

Somemore as this is occuring pretty often, some ppl will just take 170 whenever CW2 or SJE is delayed by massive jam on PIE

vicamour SG

Bus always slower. More feeders and less trunk route. Less DD needed for trunk.

More DDs are needed in fact, with our population increasing year by year. How to squeeze all the people into single deckers then? More feeders mean more transfers. Do you think it is convenient to transfer here and there many times just to get to point A to point B? That's a real purpose for trunk routes. Too many feeder services will be very difficult to plan as well. And don't give me the crap about bendy buses and Citaro G bullshit again. More feeder services means more buses on the roads, means that it will be much more worse with more bendies with more gridlocks/queues along bus stops/bus interchanges and more parking woes in interchanges and depots. Our bus system will be even be less efficient and in a bloody mess.

Crosscountry services mostly likely will not be cut. What I feel is that 190, 700 and 960 will be merged and amended into one service. 75 and 77 or 106 as well. 67 might transfer to SBST and be cut to terminate at Kent Ridge or Clementi. 961 might be cut back to New Bridge Rd. But I do hope none will be touch. Don't fix it if it is not broken.

wsy1234 SG

many bus service will be cut or re-route or 2 service into 1. But i hope LTA can provide more semi-express bus service parallel to DTL like service 23,59,5,966,985 & 857 using expressway instead of removing it. If sbst opreate DTL according to news, then the bus service which run by sbst, LTA should pass the service to other operator SMRT or a new operator. let sbst handle the train operation better and reduce manpower on bus driving.

SMB228X SG

U don't like Citaro????