VO3Xs almost always move like snails as the schedule is not
tight enough. In fact, 'snail buses', buses ahead of schedule by
10-20 mins, buses intentionally slowing down at traffic lights, and
buses stopping for ridiculously long at bus stops is becoming more
common.
It was SBST's fault for restricting the 1st gear of Citaros.
Even SMRT's Voith Citaros can keep up to schedules which are
tighter than SBST's schedules.
Try taking the Service 27 perm Citaros. The engine sounds really
loud and 'shattered' as the BCs 'force' the 1st gear
restrictions.
P.S. No wonder 27 has cameos so often... The HGDEP deployers
want to 'force' the 1st gear restrictions of all their Citaros.
Even the BSEP Citaros are not spared, despite the BSEP bus
rule.
We acknowledge that but SBST protocol mah,What can we do?