Originally posted by SBS351M:
You know the thing about 107M? It is possible to get less than
10 pax boarding from Potong Pasir to Suntec during weekend
evenings, then nobody boards at Suntec, and it is quite a fast
journey, sometimes within 25 mins, fits every citeria you have
mentioned.
I am confident, by "full day" user wsy1234 meant operating trips on weekends and holidays, which I find completely reasonable.
ESPECIALLY when most Singaporeans do head out of the door during holidays. And ESPECIALLY when LTA do charge motorists exhorbitant ERP rates during weekends and holidays.
Here is where you have completely misinterpreted my post. With reference to the example of 107M I am merely drawing the operating module of the route.
(Trust me, if they didnt have the M varient to begin with you can dream on with having catchment for this svc. Be grateful theres even 10 pax, it could have been 0 down at Shenton Way)
See, drawing your attention to the hotcake svc 518, and at times 502 and 506, we see the urgent need for more express svc to and from more areas. The problem with the current bus network at town is there is an avalanche of choices for people staying NEAR the city (eg. Holland, Mountbatten) and practically NONE for the suburban areas. To give choices to those staying further away, do you think the way is to make it stop at every road along its way to like say, woodlands or something? Clearly absurd.
Because it is EXTREMELY unfair for residents staying far away to have its buses pass by every street, every alley before it drags its way to its destinstion. Is the strategy for catchment REALLY to stop at any place possible along the way eg. Bedok, Geylang, Simei before heading to Changi? Sure you gain pax along the way, while LOSING pax from the start of the svc. Essentially nothing changes. But now you see some ppl having lots of svcs, other with very few.
And this is where express buses step in.
The train network isnt helping much either, made worse with the new train lines. I mean, 14 bloody stops from Chinatown to Tampines?! Thats almost an entire Kwun Tong Line alr! Along the way, catering ppl from MacPherson, Bedok etc.
Forcing people into a corner, is what the current transport network is doing. How to expect people to give up cars this way?
TLDR, Singapore needs more direct bus connections. At least during weekends and holidays. Weekdays off peak I agree not necessary.
P.s. 107M is not even an express svc. Why on earth are you using it as an example? It loops here and there, stopping at tons of traffic lights and stops along its way. You call that express?! 25 minutes yes lah, probably late night when every bc is rushing home, like any other svc. Also, have you heard of something called "reverse commute"? Clearly you havent; it refers to the act of travelling in reverse to the general commuting pattern, eg. CBD to residential during AM peak. PP to Suntec in the evening at any day IS reverse commuting, ofc you only see <10 pax! (few ppl would even go out into the city at so late in the evening lol, most do so in the afternoon), I do suggest you observe Boon Keng Stn towards Hougang at the same time period though.
P.s. continuing to the 107M issue, there is, in every human being, something called " intelligence". I kindly recommend you use it the next time you post.