Why did we have to wait 40 mins for bus?

[MarrickG]

I AM writing to share my unhappy experience of taking SBS service 156, which runs between Sengkang and Clementi.

The bus often takes 20 minutes to arrive, even during peak hours.

Sometimes, an empty 156 bus would drive out of the interchange without picking up any passengers.

This has been happening over the last five years that I have been taking this bus.

On 19 Nov, around 7.30pm, I arrived at Sengkang interchange as usual, intending to take a 156 bus home.

As the previous bus had just left, I expected a wait of some 20 minutes.

But what riled me and some of the other passengers in front of me in the queue was that each time a 156 bus got going, it was not to pick up passengers in the interchange. It would simply drive out of the interchange.

This happened three times, and I ended up waiting 40 minutes at the interchange, which was warm (there was little air-conditioning) and stifling (there was a pungent smell of paint due to some repainting that was going on).

When the bus finally arrived, it was 8.10pm.

Some of us waiting passengers had wanted to go to the interchange control office to ask why the buses were driven out without picking up passengers, but did not because we did not know when the next bus would come, and we did not want to miss it.

Will SBS Transit explain why it took 40 minutes for a bus to come while three empty buses which could have picked us up were driven out of the interchange?

And can the Land Transport Authority investigate whether this service meets its requirements?

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[myfoot123]

Will the higher mortal in charge of Sengkang cares? Apparently Sengkang is a town pap find not worth investing. How sad can a Singaporeans be when treated such?

 

[Watchman]

Public transport users are slaves the lowest rung of grunts .

Therefore considerations are over-looked .

 

[jw5]

Because you are an ordinary singaporean and not an elite.

 

[singveld]

if PAP made bus too efficient and cheap, no one will buy a car, if no one buy car, they get a lot of taxes from car. so it is their benefit that public transport be bad. this is economic of PAP. live and learn.

 

[SneeringTree]

WHY? Because you voted for PAP for your entire life.

 

[scoobyhoo]

The fourth world standard! (any way, furth world may be = hell world)

 

[jonlatio]

the higher mortals already say that if you ask a singaporean, he'll complain must wait more than 40mins for bus, if you ask a new immigrant, he happy the bus come less than 1 hour.

 

[scroobal]

Sample of concise writing.

On 19 Nov between 7.30pm and 8.10pm, while waiting at Sengkang Interchange, I noticed that 3 buses for Service 156 left the interchange at various times without picking waiting passengers. What should have been a maximum waiting period of 20 minutes ended up being 40 minutes. Not an ideal situation in stifling weather combined with the smell of paintwork from a nearby repair work.

Could LTA investigate.

 

[cooleo]

Sometimes i think Matlaysia got better public transport. No kidding. Their trains not very crowded. U can spread out newspapers widely and read!