设施应该是足够容纳铰接客车的,稍微调整一下就可以了。
我倒觉得机场巴士路线将永久使用铰接客车,除非到时候 Cross Island Line 和 Thomson East Coast
Line 开了以后,乘客们对机场巴士的需求减少,机场巴士路线才有可能全用低乘客量的单层巴士营运。
至于未来会发生什么事情,我们难以确认,因为局势一直不断的变化。然而,目前可以确定的是在可预见的未来,铰接客车是不会被淘汰,因为机场和一些路段是不能容纳双层巴士,而只要穿行这些地方的巴士路线需要高乘客量巴士,我们还是需要铰接客车来满足乘客们的需求。
The infrastructure should be able to accommodate bendy buses.
Probably just a few adjustments would be required.
I feel that the airport bus routes will always require bendy
buses, unless one day when the Cross Island Line and Thomson East
Coast Line open and the passenger demand no longer require the bus
routes to have high capacity buses.
As for what will happen in future, we are unable to confirm,
because the situation keeps changing. Nonetheless, what we can
confirm is that bendy buses will not be disqualified in the
foreseeable future. Because the airport and some areas cannot
accommodate double-decker buses, as long as the bus routes plying
these places require high capacity buses, we will still require
bendy buses to meet the passenger demand.
You see, that's the plan.
Thomson East Coast and Cross Island lines will be built in the
next 15 years, whereby the last bendies will be withdrawn from
service. By then, the demands will be diverted to these lines and
the loadings of the current bus services in the airport will be
lessen.
While you have said airport bus terminal can support bendies
only, but that's only for one service. Terminal 3 and 1 bus
terminal is too small and narrow to accommodate more bendies. On
top of that, every terminal requires a security check before
entrance. The bus queue will be very long if there are many of
these long buses in the waiting queue and thus will even delay
other vehicles for the airport services.
For now, the bendies are still in use because there are 15 years
to go for the 40 A24s. LTA don't want to waste them. Once they have
found other solutions to replace the bendies, airport services will
not even need these bendies anymore.