WEll, I have to admit that the campaign itself is not working as
it should. The problem now is that the bus companies have tried
their best but it all comes to PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Sometimes,
people don't bother filling up seats and moving in which have cause
discomfort for people. One case is on every Friday afternoon at
around lunchtime in neighbourhoods. Services that serves 2 or more
schools have this problem. We will use Service 962 as an
example.
962 runs to Sembawang Drive, where it passes 3 schools with 1
000 odd pupils each. Most people from these schools take the bus to
school and back home in Woodlands. The problem now is that School A
would have the chance of boarding the bus first, then School B. By
then, the bus is full of people; not full to capacity though. The
students have left spaces at the rear for 'ghosts' to fill in and
when people sees the gap. It really made tempers flare, including
mine with some gangsters showing the middle finger and scolding the
f$#% word.
Ok, continue with story..
The bus reaches the 1st alighting 'hot spot'; Sun Plaza and
people from School C come onboard the bus, whereas 30% - 40% of
passengers would alight. In fact, after the stop, there's no change
of effect. Sometimes, it worsens the situation. When the bus passes
school C, the bus driver thought that there's no space but there is
really space available at the rear! When the bus passes infront of
School C, the driver just passes by without stopping and this
causes uproars. Students from School C will suffer the most
here.
A solution is still not suggested.
There are times where I politely ask the neigbouring
school students to move in to the rear of the bus so that
my other schoolmates could board and get back home with no delays.
This earned me a nickname in school. But, what's with the nickname?
My aim is to help. What wrong am I doing. Sometimes, it takes a bit
of a quarrel to settle a friend of mine to fill in a seat so that
other's could board.
I always wonder this; Am I being too much at helping? Nothing
much can be said but I'll leave it up to you to discuss.
You help your schoolmates fight for space to board yet they give
you a nickname? In this case it shows that your efforts have been
wasted.
Well, its a hard fact of life that such cases do happen. Just
accept it.