To answer your question, you need to consider that what SBST /
SMRTB / LTA has said is that:-
1) As long as 80% of the bus stops along the Service's route is
accessible to WAB buses, that service can be classified as a WAB
accessible Service.
2) Considering that Service 196 bus stops does not call at all
the bus stops in Singapore, those pointed out in the sticker does
not constitues more than 20% of the bus stops being served by
Service 196 currently.
3) Although more than 80% of the bus stops islandwide are
currently not WAB accessible, there are sufficient WAB accessible
bus stops / boarding and alighting points at Bus Interchanges and
Terminals to enable those services which SBST and SMRTB has
declared to be WAB accessible Services to deploy and use these WAB
buses.
Hope that the above help to clarify matters.
Please also note that there is an on-going program to upgrade
all the bus interchanges, terminals and bus stops to make them WAB
accessible. This is part of BCA's Barrier Free Access (BFA)
code.
I dun think your Point 3 is correct (more than 80% bus
stop islandwide are not WAB accessible)? is this statement
correct?
now since late last year till now, SBST have not converted any
Services to be WAB services if i am not wrong... Why there is such
delay? Why Sv 265/238/235/128 cant be converted to WAB services?
Most of the bus stops are WAB accessible as far as i am concern..
What abt Sv 24? It travelled along the route of Sv 76/2... except
for the serangoon sector and ang mo kio sector..
Dunno why LTA/SBST is waiting for. If they find providing the
WAB time table troublesome, then just convert the service into WAB
service and dun bother about the WAB timetable...
