Originally posted by eX.A.K.R.:
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Let me tell you what I find wrong with A$$-M-MATI:
Wasteful - spending thousands of dollars on totally illegible
EDSes that spoil easily when cheap plastic plates, like what SBS
Transit use on almost all of their buses, could have served their
purpose. And they actually spent money on those completely dumb
pink uniforms (pink for men - YUCK!) and to make their disgusting
new livery (described as blood + bird poop by some foreigners in a
chat room when I described to them the colours used) as
high-quality as possible on those rotten buses (look carefully!),
and to buy those PINIFARINA-designed, beautifully useless
buses...
Cheap (but not on the fares side, unfournately) - to get more
buses, they got all but one route of their extremely useful C$$
routes withdrawn, and then get those dirty, creaky, old, sweaty,
cramped, and completely ROTTEN buses to toture those living in
Sembawang (routes 167, 980, 981), Woodlands (routes 178, 187),
Bukit Panjang (routes 920, 921), and Yishun (routes 851, 852, 853,
855), while they pay AIR-CON fares for NON-AIR-CON buses to keep up
their image (FULL FLEET OF AIR-CON BUSES!!! By the way they collect
fares, it is...) (at least SBS Transit charge non air-con fares
when you take a non air-con bus...). And the way they convert non
air-conditioned buses to air-conditioned buses is:
I wonder if you do your homework before complaining.
The Pininfarina-designed Habit Buses were introduced by TIBS, not
SMRT. The bodywork is nowhere more expensive than the normal ones.
The Habit Body is a product of BOTH Pininfarina design house and
Hispano Carrocera.
By using the CSS UDs, they are just maximising the usage of the
buses. It would be wasteful not to use them, get new buses and
later on fare hikes again.
Until then, I'm not surprised to see you complain again.
