I would rather have the current route rather than that.
Clementi Ave 3 is a small road, and the sheer number of buses
using this road (14, 78, 96, 147, 165, 166, 175, 284M, 285), along
with the "queue" due to the full carpark at NTUC Fairprice area
frequently causes hiccups. Avenue 3 would be a disaster if bendies
uses it.
SMRT uses Avenue 1 instead of the Avenue West/Clementi Road
junction because that junction is slow. There's little or no
traffic light at Avenue 1. I believe SMRT/LTA did not want to use
Avenue 2 because that particular road is extremely vulnerable to
jams anytime (including weekends), due to the screwed traffic light
timings. If you did realised, most of the roads that the shuttle
goes through are major roads (Jurong Town Hall Rd, AYE, Clementi
Road, Ave West). They did not want to cause any hiccups to smaller
roads..
For those who ask why SMRT/LTA did not use Avenue 5, i believe
it is due to that particular road length issue. Minus away the
junction into car parks and the bus stop, there's literally little
space left to accommodate the bendies - Avenue 4 is
different. There's only 284/284M passing through throughout the
day, and the road end means that bendies can park all way before
the roundabout and after the roundabout.
dun forget Clementi Ave 1 at C'wealth Ave West is considered a side
road, no priority to move out until traffic stops and you
occupy e yellow boxes. Tat's why there's 1 auxiliary officer
deployed there.
If they'd used Clementi Rd & C'wealth Ave West direct no nid
all these.
Tat stretch of Ave 4 for pick up has Sv 7, 184, 282, 284
using it.
It's all because of using bendy buses.
