Originally posted by MS:
I also need to inform you all that currently many
organisations are undergoing evolution. SAF is turning 3rd
generations and during my recent reservist I can see that they're
really shedding the unwanted parts and absorbing the parts that are
going to propel the entire organisation to become even more
competitive in the defence industry. So is SBS Transit. The new
management styles are starting to build in. More aggressive
policies, more professional operational & technical ideas. With
an even more effective cost control.
Even so, safety has never been an agenda for cost savings. Because
lives can never be replaced with any amount of money. Therefore the
company takes extreme serious views on product safety which one of
them is our buses. This fire case after some evaluations, there
have been some discoveries. But facts showed that highly unlikely
involved with workshop maintenance failure. It is more like a suay
thing that happens once in a super blue moon. Frankly speaking, in
my whole life in this industry, this is the first time I heard of
such diagnosis & I was totally taken aback when I first heard
the diagnosis.
A suitable analogy is like: you get banged down by a Ferrari. What
I can only say is plainly suay.
For SL track records in safety, I believe many of you are aware of
the high standards imposed and executed. So the rest of the buses
are still safe to travel in. No matter what we want to have zero
injuries to all my passengers.
I'd like to repeat, [b]because you pay good bus fare, I will do
whatever I can to give you good bus. This is sensible
business.[/b]
Well, I can understand what you are trying to say. No one wants
this kind of things to happen either. I always have faith in the
maintenance standards of SBS Transit (unlike some other company
), and even if there are lapses in maintenance, they are always
rectified quickly, especially when the demanding commuter's
complaints roll in. Commuter comfort is one thing, but their safety
is even more important - and such maintenance can actually never be
measured in value. They may cost this much, but their inherent
value could be human lives - something immeasurable by any kind of
money.
And if you say that it was not likely due to lack of maintenance,
then either one of two things stands: freak human-caused accident
other than lack of maintenance (cigarette butts, etc. come to
mind), or just science and Mother Nature deciding to demonstrate
some physics in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I wonder what will happen next with this bus, but likely it will
have to depart for the land where motor vehicles are eternally
blessed ( 
).
