PTC fines both SBS Transit and SMRT Buses

Junyang700 SG

Try the 5.30pm onwards trips toward Woodlands, then maybe you'll understand why.

S925 cannot use bendies for obvious reasons, yet SMRT can't be bothered to add additional trips to improve its frequency. Come on, 1 bus per 20 minutes, can it lift passenger loads in Sungei Kadut without crushloading the bus? -_____________-"

Maybe I never try before. Ha.. But 188, 190 and 960 definitely is lacking =)

TIB1224Y SG

SMRT 925 got fine because bus loading exceeds 95% during weekday peak hours. Thought this service is the least crowded during peak hour?

They forgot to check 187, 188, 190, 700 & 960 for overcrowding. -_-". I think the buses are like 120% full during peak hours if you go according to the legal passenger capacity limit. You can board these buses from the back doors. =) FOC of course for some. =)

Full standing and sitting: 100 percent.

With front stairwell full: 105 percent

With every stariwell full, add another 5 percent.

Bendy bus can be 115 percent full. Percentage not accurate, just a rough description to how full a bus can be.

SBS997A SG

Full standing and sitting: 100 percent.

With front stairwell full: 105 percent

With every stariwell full, add another 5 percent.

Bendy bus can be 115 percent full. Percentage not accurate, just a rough description to how full a bus can be.

SBST also have xD

Route like 27 need afew bus come together then can get on

Roderick a.k.a Guai Kia SG

They even has leaking bus. Bus 169, TIB 778 Y. The ceiling is wet and dripping water.

sad lah..smrt abit bo chup de..bo chup lor,PTC take their money see they still bo chup anot..

tanjun SG

In my opinion,this investigation is only focused on the area of bus service standards. I am wondering why the provision of rail services is omitted in this investigation before fines are issued to both companies.

ditzy SG

That's like fining the ferrari F1 team $10000.

Scania SG

I am surprised things like 153 don't get into the "deviate from timesheet" thing, and I'm surprised things like 966, 985 don't get fined when there is a bus only once every fortnight and when they come its packed. And I'm surprised that 55 isn't in the "packed' category

Y_Shun SG

got many other buses that are 105% IMO....

n4l SG

something i want to ask is....

how come those services are selected? do they send people around observing, or only selecting these serices through complains and then observing it?

Should be random checks...

chickenlittle2 SG

FYI, LTA sub these survey to other company and these company sometimes employ temp staff to do these survey.

eX.A.K.R. SG

FYI, LTA sub these survey to other company and these company sometimes employ temp staff to do these survey.

Wow... that has just raised a big red flag over this entire facre.

Survey companies that uses temporary or part-time staff (whom I assume are usually students looking for extra money) are not very reliable, as those people usually don't take their job very seriously, and the data they submit could be inaccurate or even outright lies.

How do I know? My own sister worked for such a company, and... well, I will just let you think about it.

If a large number of the staff have some sort of weird bias against SBS Transit (very highly likely, since, as I mentioned, these people are mostly students, and I often hear students getting pushed around by SBS Transit bus captains in regards to fare payment and such), then they might have tried to sabotage the survey against SBS Transit as revenge, if they know what the data they are collecting are going into (and I'm sure they know what they are doing).

I'm not jumping to conclusions, but with what chickenlittle2 said, this can be very likely. And no, this is not my bias against SMRT working up again, but I do feel that what SBS Transit got is far disproportionate compared with SMRT, even after factoring in fleet size and number of routes run, and assuming that they are just about as bad as each other - public opinion I have heard though is rather otherwise except in the area about fare collecting.

If LTA wants to be more serious about improving the quality of public transit in Singapore, they should do the survey work themselves and listen to public opinion more closely instead, rather than allowing such unprofessionalism to leech into the system.

n4l SG

Pros and cons to doing that…and surely there are some check and balances.

iveco SG

All this talks of who fines who brings 1 question in my mind...where will all this fines goes to? Will it be given to us thru reduction of fares?

All the fines go into the Transport Minister's pocket, where else.

lemon1974 SG

Try the 5.30pm onwards trips toward Woodlands, then maybe you'll understand why.

try the 5pm trip.it is alrd full, before reaching the bus stop opposite KJDEP. My colleague have waited 30 mins last fri for 925 but when it come, it was full and she cant board. but actually, there are some downroute if i am not wrong.. In the morning, i saw downroute starting at Kranji MRT. In the evening, i do see some empty Sv 925 starting trips in sungei kadet/kranji area as well.

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