Actually, there seems to be a trade off.
SBS has been involved in separate accidents recently, one of which
involved the death of two 12-year-olds crossing the road becoz the
driver beat the light.
Certainly, both TIBS and SBS do not have perfect bus drivers but
neither are they road safe. Many drivers tend to speed, beat lights
on a frequent basis (i was a passenger on a TIBS bus that beat 5
red lights) and do not wait patiently till the passenger alights b4
closing the door and moving off.
I believe there are certain rules that Bus Drivers must conform to
and it seems they are not being followed.
I wonder wat SBS plans to do after their drivers have been getting
into papers for all the wrong reasons.
In fact, both sets of drivers now seem only interested in getting
to their rest point ASAP instead of extending the level of safety
and courtesy to passsengers tat is the minimum expected.
On the trade off part, locals tend to demand the max standard from
drivers and complain just abt everything under the sun, faulting
the drivers for anything that displeases them. I suppose this has
rattled both TIBS and SBS, who are likely to be quick to defend
their own drivers whenever they can.
All this is likely to present a rather bleak future for bus
services in the future.
