Hi mr Tranzort08, no? Not just because of PTO issue? Also
because of difference between the principal 82 originating from
different interchange thereby causing confusion to general public,
especially elderly? As of current, no service in Singapore with an
M variant operating from different interchanges. If you want treat
as separate service, no problem of course but don't tag to the
number 82M. Just make it 114.
Essentially there are actually 2 issues. 1 is M variant
operating from different interchange from principal bus no. 2 is M
variant operating from different bus interchange which is not from
their same service provider. Yes TTS operate minority of services
at Clementi interchange. However, they do not have an M variant
departing from different interchanges (regardless of whether it is
controlled by them or not). Feel free to check it out. What I mean
is if 82 (Go Ahead) starts from hougang int (sbs transit), then 82M
by all means can start from hougang int.
You just cannot expect service 145 to start from buona vista
terminal and then service 145M to alleviate the loading and start
from Bukit merah int? Or service 2 to start from new bridge road
terminal and then service 2M to start from eunos interchange to
assist service 2? In this case, it will be too chaotic to the
public. May as well name as 2 different service no. If people are
not going to follow LTA way of naming a variant A/B/M to start from
either same interchange or part of its parent route with exception
of 1 bus-stop for looping, then you can start renumbering 965 as
969M and 972 as 190M. Cannot expect the chaos if it were to happen
then.
But as you can see, the demand as of today does not really
warrant 82M at this moment. If you also need M for service like 82,
you will need many services to have M variant already. In any way,
you are entitled to your opinion too. No offence? Happy holiday!
Cheers. Thanks.
Hmm i get what u mean here, but i think it is essentially up to
LTA to decide the route numbering conventions. In hong kong, KMB
would indeed probably call sv 972 as 190M and 965 as 969M. Yes, it
will cause some confusion to the singapore public initially but
then again i think we can be open to such naming conventions. Think
abt sv 240M, ppl taking the bus towards boon lay might be confused
over whether it will enter int or loop outside boon lat mrt. Same
for 979M.