I strongly agree with this, but not the "reduce stress"
theory.
The service 401 itself is not that frequent, and that not many
people use the svc 401 (I observed this for myself many times),
while they chose the conventional Marine Parade svcs such as 196,
197.
To make the matter worse, the route design of service 401 itself is
backfiring...It does NOT help AT ALL...anyone who take notice of
its routing should know that it runs like a 40 first (maybe to
supplement 40 and help the Siglap residents to get to the EC park
easily), then the part of ECP which is not so popular, and then
runs like a conventional MP route , then head to the Fort Road, and
finally run back into the ECP, only to be a direct route back into
Bedok...What a long route into ECP as compared to the conventional
MP services......that is why virtually all these svc401 pax defect
to the conventional MP services.
In all, I don't think 401 could help to relieve the stress of the
MP services......unless it change the routing... to run into ECP
FIRST...which may literally help both the 401 and Bedok.
