Please, get your facts right before you push your ass out to be
fired upon.
The dsigners or the Architects were from the private sector, who
designed the whole building. This applies to all Air-conditioned
Bus Interchange, and for all future integrated bus
interchanges.
They only submit the proposal to the VTL Division, BTR Department
for approval. Things like how it looks and whether the air-con is
cold or not is not within the purview of VTL-BTR to decide. They
only decide on the physical layout of the interchange, like where
the boarding berths and alighting berths are, as well as the
entrance and exit of the interchange.
If you want to pinpoint fingers, point it at the operators of the
Interchanges, as they are the ones who approved the whole design,
as they will be the ones who operates the interchanges, and who
must live with the design.
For the case of Sengkang, after much feedback from both the public
and operators, it was decided to imporve the interchange, and at
the same time, make it Barrier Free Access for the disabled.
For AMK Interchange, BTR can share some of the blame as they did
not forsee the large volume of buses that will use the interchange
during the peak periods. The operators also have to share part of
teh blame as they did not point out the BTR nor the designers of
the AMK HUB that the single entry and exit point will become a
choke point by itself.
