this guy has no idea how express services work. it has to be
direct while serving as large a catchment area as possible to
augment its survivability. that's why they tend to run along routes
with residences on both sides of the road to get as much passengers
as possible who are willing to pay higher fares for the direct
route from within walking distance from their home to town.
diverting it to St 93 will immediately deprieve residents
staying up to a street away from Pioneer Rd North (St 61, 62 and
63) from having access to it, except those nearer to Jurong West
Avenue 5. this is not a win-win sitation at all.
following the principle of having residences on both sides, we
could even amend it to go by St 61! but of course that would make
it too far for N9 residents, and that's why it is using Pioneer
Road North. express services are not supposed to be a doorstep
service anyway, their services are not required and not counted as
the basic services that must be required to serve every
neighbourhood under PTC guidelines.
i find it absurd also if his MP actually backs the plan to
deprieve his St 61 residents of a walking distance to an existing
express service. and if the MP backs the plan and say, "my
residents are OK not taking your express services", i'd see no
reason why the public bus company would turn it down. i smell
something fishy here. is it a smear campaign?
Support! BNL doesn't just have Jurong West St 91, 92 & 93. In
fact that area is like only a small portion of BNL. People like him
should move out of BNL to somewhere near town instead of making
stupid complains all day long about making his estate more
accessible. In the first place nobody asked him to stay in an
area so out of reach to town and so tightly enclosed that there's
not much flexibility in transport options. Then like that
don't need to hear him complaining about 99, 241 etc etc when their
service standards (esp. 241) is already so efficient as provided by
SBST. What a waste of STOMP's bandwidth, his intelligence, MP's
energy and other useful resources just to please stupid people like
him.