Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:I don't know what you are talking about. sv 27 has a 04-05 min peak frequency, sv 161 capacity has been beefed up and has been made full fleet DD, sv 74 has 07-08 min peak frequency.
You are very biased. Show me one SMRT service that is even full fleet bendy? They cannot afford it. Just pass bendies from one service to the other and show improvements. If you talk about frequency, SMRT services have the worst frequency. What are the improvements to major services in the last few months? Hardly any..
Sv 854, 857 still packed to door and no relied. Sv 72, 88, 185 so much improvement with capacity add.
SBST ordered 500 new high capacity buses, SMRT ???
What you talking leh???
SBST is 100 times better than SMRT. It may not be perfect and for any bus operations it is difficult to be perfect given the loading patterns, traffic jams.
Svc27 sometimes can delay departure during off peaks, same goes for 161. 161 is rather common instead. There's always inconsistent departure during peak(against IRIS and timetable) if you compare it against 168.
Mentioned above, most of the SMRT svc are like up/downs one..There's time where you get a good frequency, and there's time where you don't(Svc like 962, 964, 187(?), 172) Svc like(personally experience) 966/960 would often get poor/rubbish frequency, and they are always poor.
I would say that the arrangement of BSEP buses at specific timing do help to solve the issue a little. Putting aside the BSEP, the fleet changing/introduction of SWT is rather improving the frequency like on/off. But generally, there's some fleet having a reliable frequency at some point in time, that's why it's up/down pattern, doesn't have a constant one.