Saturday, May 24, 2008

More Trains!! But Where Is The Bus?

There has been a whole lot of controversy regarding the increased number of trains that SMRT is releasing into the market! Woo Hoo! Every morning the mad rush for the mrt to head to my workplace is total madness...Imagine sticking to the train door...and when there is a sudden stop u see ppl beside u trying to grab the nearest thing possible (in which many case is me actually).

I sincerely applaud this great move to go ahead with this idea to release more trains so that our waiting time is reduces and we have more space to STAND, mind you not sit but well, as long as we have a decent place to stand, i guess its ok after all.

What bout the bus then? Since there is so much news regarding trains being released into the market, up till today there is still no news from the respective bus operators! SBS & TIBS still gives us waiting times of up to 19 min for non-peak and 16 min for peak, (from experience by the way) although our transport system is one of the best in the world BUT let's not compare with other countries in the end shall we? Let's compare with our other modes of transport which includes Taxis and MRTs, i got to say all of them are really improving in the end...But now i think it is time for buses to pull up their socks and show one thing...if we are to truly move towards a society to encourage public transport...then pls increase the number of ALL public transport and selected entities instead. = )


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