Originally posted by lemon1974:sometime i dun really understand the logic of your thinking.... you want them to upgrade the tracks/trains faster? but how fast can they do? they only have 3 hours daily to do maintainaince.... and to upgrade a train need how many days? not as if it is like upgrading your SMRT O405 buses instead... it would take at least one month to upgrade one train.. and they cant be pulling out many trains as well
and what train station facilities you want? aircon platform at woodland station? the mrt is already 25 years? so they should start building new parallel tracks and stations to replace the NS and EW lines right?
and your logic of Sv925 should not be getting BSEP buses is totally wrong. BSEP buses are mainly to help during peak hours... and like what i have said before, you will still see some BSEP buses during off peak hour. esp for Sv925 considering its operationg hours.. or else what is the driver to do? do one am trip of sv925 and one evening peak trip? Maybe you should try to go and squeeze onto sv925 at kranji mrt in the am peak and try boarding sv925 at kranji road (towards kranji mrt)...
i use to work at kranji area and my colleagues are always complaining of difficulty of boarding sv925....
That's the problem~ They should extend the changing of sleeper's time. For example, since weekdays there's hardly people travelling around 11-12, they can close certain station that's hardly use(like Kranji/Marsiling - Marsiling have some direct buses). Otherwise, they can deploy shuttle buses at night to meet the deadline. Of cus they have to pay abit extra to the drivers~
With shorter time to replace the rail track, the time taken to change all of them would take lesser time. By then, if they need to, they should do a full test on the lines-for example team A do Station A to C, team B will do Station C to E etc.- after completing the whole track replacement to ensure that the newest and new track sleeper would have no flaws or problem.
By doing so every week after the entire replacement, they can prevent less breakdowns etc(Of cus to check the other parts too). They can also hire some experts to team up with the crew to ensure strict maintenace. That will benefit more to the people and the funds are used correctly(Funds for drivers' extra work, recruit the experts etc.)
Station facilities, they can add more seats to the platform(if possible) or otherwise, add 1-2 more TVs on each platform.
I would ask you then, does the frequency of 925 become shorter? I still see the same-1 bus in and another out, 10mins later another bus enter and another bus leaves. They added 2 BSEP and the fleet turn out to be not efficient(in frequency). I'm not sure about the effect of the 3 BSEP but I can say 925's 1st wave of BSEP was useless. They only foresee the load in the interchange itself and forgotten about Marsiling/Kranji station. Never observe how the 3 BSEP bus affects the service, but I believe that the frequency is shorter(obvious, provided they didn't remove any buses) and making it useful. With just 2 and the frequency is about the same, I don't find it useful~