really, i don't know what's up wif those singapore LTA people.
we should learn some things form hong kong. this is how they are
different from us:
1. HK tridents and B10TL are purchased earlier than s'pore did,
but oredi have PIW feature. if SBS had taken the bother to purchase
or change the tridents and B10TL wif PIW features, many svc would
have became WAB svc long ago...
2. HK determine WAB by STOPS, not SVC. As long as the bus is WAB
and the stop is WAB- accessible, you can board ANY svc. that's why
lke SMRT, they spread out all the WAB to different routes, batch by
batch, so that there would be no one svc full WAB fleet while the
other had zero WAB.
gd luck s'pore
WAB isn't a requirement back then. Why spend more money on
that??? I am more unhappy that they didn't buy more double deckers
and expand the double decker fleet. Look at the overcrowdings
now.
SBST should really learn from Hong Kong to upgarade their fleet
to 90% double deckers if the Singapore population is going to
increase like these years. No point trying to predict and juggling
the use of single deckers and double deckers because road
conditions and crowd demand patterns are not always so predictable.
And then overcrowding occurs in many single deckers and complains
keep on throwing in. Full double decker fleet just can solve the
problem.
