Since you shield so much over SMRT I would like to hear
what you have to offer. Let's make it a constructive discussion
between you and me.
From my personal opinion. And fact is if you were to observe.
SMRT loses out in many areas, they profit big cos they own much of
the rail network which has close to no alternatives and if you were
to ask me, they aren't doing a good job with their rail service.
Their lunchtime express is under utilised,
practically only 10 people in the car with me from Toa
Payoh to City Hall. During peak hours, I often see sudden 5min
frequencies in the middle of peak hours den a continuous
1min bunching for the next few trains. At peak hours, you
practically have to either squeeze or wait for the second train to
board on the NSL, EWL.
CCL is only a few months old and underutilised, is that fair
judgment?
Currently, SBST and SMRT arent really competing. cos you have
take either to get to where you want most of the time. and usually
whichever comes first, you naturally choose to board cos
Singaporeans are always chasing up for lost time.
Firstly, for buses, what's the SMRT and SBST territory for if
they really are competing? If you were to tear down the
current territories which is clearly in favour of SMRTB, SMRTB
wouldn't stand a chance.
When LTA issued the 10-min ruling for peak hours last year, I
would say SBS Transit was proactive in making fleet additions since
late 08 all the way to 3rd Qtr 09, practically every week different
services were getting fleet additions, sometimes more
than 5 at a go. SMRT waited till they very last minute and only
added about 20 splits just before the "ruling" which I would say
isnt really abided by? a few to 970 and some of the city
area serving services.
for SMRTB, the only thing i really observe improved was for
190 and 970, the improvements after thousands of
complaints to the extent they couldnt sit on it already, that they
went to do smth and made a difference. i have to say now 190 and
970 are much better but it could have been done much earlier, and
till now still can be improved esp AM Peak. i belive they did smth
cos these are their cashcows. SMRTB interior and exteriors arent as
clean as SBST ones, and SMRTB ones often have lots of pests (esp
AMDEP). SMRT's 1209S of 190 livery is like all brownish
already and it plies the heart of Orchard Rd, if its SBST's 402 or
SMRT's 925 where its really dusty, it is still forgiveable.
a ponit to infer tho, SMRTB do have less breakdowns (their
Mercedes are solid) than SBST (B10Ms and
doubledecks ahve alot of technical problems) but
SMRT has more accidents and more fatal ones. for me, i rather be
caught in a breakdown than an accident. what about you?
for SLRT, BPLRT has broken down so many times within 3
years of operations from 1999-2002 remembering the accident
which caused injuries. while SK/PGLLRT hasnt really broken down
much since 2003.
Now on to you. (:
@[email protected] I wasn't even siding SMRT or SBST lor. I don't see the point
of posting such a long wall of text when the thesis isn't really
there.