Yusry, I'm referring to the route details board where you just
look at the colour coded bands instead of having to count.
Hence negating the need to remember the actual numbers itself. I
hardly do look at the ones at the corner of the bus stop
plates.
Yes, maybe that's a better word to describe it...fare stages
here and there, it's pretty confusing.
Okay, so I'll take a pass over my earlier promise and add
another post on this.
Thank you for that clarification.
Yes, the colour coded fare bands are useful, but I guess for me,
I just prefer using raw data rather than something that has been
processed for the public.
So in addition to the colour coded bands which indirectly tell
me how far away my destination is, I would still want to know
whether the bus knows that it is at the correct bus stop or
not.
In fact, there are cases where train fare gates have charged the
wrong fare. I recall it was in the newspapers, so even if the fare
gate remains in the train station, like forever, they can still
potentially charge the wrong fare.
So in my case, knowing both the farestages as well as the
expected fare is kind of important, which is not the case for the
rest of us.
So as I end, I would like to say that I have never meant to
force everyone else to use the same techniques that I do, but
rather, I am pushing the point that, logically speaking, having the
need to know the boarding farestage as well as your fare is the
only way that you can estimate your alighting fare stage accurately
to within a specific range.
Short of these two information which currently exist in the
older bus stops, you would need some sort of transit guide.
I know that some of us just prefer to tap and tap, but I and
probably a few other individuals, like to make sure things are
correct the first time round and there are others who are somewhere
in between these two extreme ends.
In any case, I am going to ask LTA if they are planning any
alternative methods on how commuters will be able to ensure that
the buses are in-sync with the bus stops now that the fare stages
are no longer displayed and I will post whatever reply I get from
them on the forums.
Update: And just to add on to an already
messy post. I don't actually need to know both alighting and
boarding farestages before I board the bus to calculate my fare.
All I need to know is my boarding fare stage as well as my fare so
that I ensure that when I alight, my farestage is at the correct
range.
In other words, my situation is not:
Given boarding and alighting farestages, then calculate
fare.
But rather:
Given boarding farestage and fare, then calculate alighting
farestage range.
Sorry for all this logic stuff, I have a computer science
background and probably am suffering from Asperger's syndrome which
probably explains why I am more comfortable with cold hard
facts.
