LTA appoints external consultants to review bus networks

SMRT Buses SG

Friday January 12, 4:17 PM

LTA appoints external consultants to review bus and train networks

SINGAPORE: The Land Transport Authority has appointed consultants to review the public bus and train networks.

The consultants, Booz Allen Hamilton from Australia, will look at the transport structure and how the public system is regulated.

The LTA says it has appointed external consultants this time, in order to look at a full range of options like what has worked for other cities and how to improve in the system.

Last year, the Minister for Transport, Raymond Lim, announced that the LTA would conduct a review of public transport to support continued population and economic growth.

The Singapore government aims to increase the percentage of people using public transport from 63 percent to 70 percent over 10 to 15 years. - CNA /dt

autumncs SG

Hmm.... LTA should consult the public more, since the public is the one using the transportation.

LTA should also spend some time reading the bus forum... There are actually many good suggestions and recommendations in this forum, but very few of them are actually implemented... After all, most of us here are bus lovers and we pay more attention than other people to the details of a transport network... Smile

Superbus SG

LTA is also conducting feasibility studies on the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and the Tram system for Singapore’s future mode of commuting.

Yusry SG

The funny thing is that they are asking Australians to do it. And we all know that Australia doesn't really have a world-class public transportation system.

The Europeans, however, do.

ditzy SG

The even stranger thing is I always thought australia to be the ones taking pointers from us. Laughing

davidchua123 SG

u wont be surprise if bus captain remove his number plate if his bus is damn loaded n direct by company management.back up buses will come. camera, take twleve, action. must make show to Aust. Mr. Green

off_service SG

I'm quite surprised at this move too. Perhaps they think that Singapore is having a more similar transport system to Australia. Seems like even after the review, we might still be at a distant from World Class Transportation.