SMRT Too Much $$$$

• buses_galore

  3 Dec 06, 01:06

  Hi guys...I am wondering why do smrt still provide free china town shuttles when they are facing a shortage of buses and drivers...wah I think is too much $$$
• ifish

  3 Dec 06, 01:13

  ppl give u free also u complain
• autumncs

  3 Dec 06, 01:17

  SMRT wants to improve company image? and to steal market share from SBST?
  
  I wonder why LTA or PTC allow these free services in the first place. A few years ago many bus services kena chopped just because they overlapped with NEL. And now, the SMRT free shuttles are basically overlapping with NEL...
• tanjun

  3 Dec 06, 10:10

  Originally posted by autumncs:

  SMRT wants to improve company image? and to steal market share from SBST?
  
  I wonder why LTA or PTC allow these free services in the first place. A few years ago many bus services kena chopped just because they overlapped with NEL. And now, the SMRT free shuttles are basically overlapping with NEL...

  what i think strongly is they are competing with SBST for the market share.
• XiaoTaro

  3 Dec 06, 10:17

  Originally posted by buses_galore:

  Hi guys...I am wondering why do smrt still provide free china town shuttles when they are facing a shortage of buses and drivers...wah I think is too much $$$

  The shuttles uses PA Lances and Bus plus, and only operated on weekends so nothing to do with shortage of buses.
• sbst275

  3 Dec 06, 10:55

  The term hidden cost
• hobochua

  3 Dec 06, 11:00

  $$$$$ money money money $$$$$$
• dragg

  3 Dec 06, 11:03

  they should provide free buses for all destinations.
  
  
• Yaimster

  3 Dec 06, 11:15

  They should give at least CSS fares for those services with perm Nissan buses.
• SBS9889U

  3 Dec 06, 12:40

  Got free thing also want to complain......
  The ridership for Outram <-> Chinatown is bad yet they still deploy a lance on it. Somemore for most of the stops, i belief people would rather walk as for example from peoples park to chinatown point that smrt link makes 1 big u - turn at havelock rd (clemenceau Ave there) before turning back and from eu tong sen st, it turn into outram rd and make a big u turn before going to outram park mrt. but the ridership for dhoby ghaut to chinatown can be said to be good la.
• ^tamago^

  3 Dec 06, 12:48

  they shld run NEL to my home as well, so i can get free shuttles to everywhere.
• sbst275

  3 Dec 06, 14:55

  Originally posted by SBS9889U:

  Got free thing also want to complain......
  The ridership for Outram <-> Chinatown is bad yet they still deploy a lance on it. Somemore for most of the stops, i belief people would rather walk as for example from peoples park to chinatown point that smrt link makes 1 big u - turn at havelock rd (clemenceau Ave there) before turning back and from eu tong sen st, it turn into outram rd and make a big u turn before going to outram park mrt. but the ridership for dhoby ghaut to chinatown can be said to be good la.

  Free???
  
  There's no free lunch
• anti_NISSAN_U31

  3 Dec 06, 15:04

  Originally posted by Yaimster:

  They should give at least CSS fares for those services with perm Nissan buses.

  css svcs 178 n 981
• tanjun

  3 Dec 06, 22:58

  Originally posted by ^tamago^:

  they shld run NEL to my home as well, so i can get free shuttles to everywhere.

  me 2
  Initially tot there is MRT running through my home as reports are saying that it is passing by Serangoon. In the end, it passes by serangoon central. Hopes come when the gov is building circle line going through Serangoon again. In the end, still passes by serangoon central. Sigh!!