Hi mr SG1131L, BCM is a big wayang. Just like the bus drivers
are told to purposely slow down by the operators if there is a
similar bus service no in front just to maintain headway. In the
end, the bus behind purposely travels so slow intentionally and for
the next few minutes, there are no passengers waiting to board it
as well. A big farcical wayang without any objectives. Wayang for
the sake of wayang. Only disadvantage is people on board gets
delayed for another few minutes to destinations. Cheers.
Thanks.
Bus slowing down is to ensure that buses run according to
schedule and at the prescribed frequency, so that they are
reliable.
BCM is about getting the best people to manage bus services.
In future, buses may become driverless, but we still need people
to maintain the equipment and communicate with customers.
More importantly, we need BCM to match our bus services at
market rate, so that it is comparable to other cities like London,
New York and Australia.
We need competition to ensure that we always get the best
quality products and services.
From the customer perspective, this may not seem much because
everything is business as usual, and nothing much changes except
for the visuals and addition of new bus services.
But for Singapore to continue to have frequent and reliable
public transport, competition is key. For buses, we have BCM. For
trains, we have NRFF (New Rail Financing Framework). All these is
to ensure that Singapore continues to have good quality public
transport and that the economy continues to thrive forever and
ever.