SBS wouldn't have lost, judging from their economy of scale with
respect to bus services.
What I mean is that the NEL should never have been tendered out at
all, but instead, placed under the auspices of SMRT. Similar trains
as those on the existing lines could have been deployed. The NEL
fares may have been more similar to the existing fares as the cost
of running the system would be lower than a fully-computerised one
as it is now.
Anyway, if Tibs were the landlord at SKG Int, it would be built to
accommodate articulated buses, just as WDL and BPJ were.