what i think strongly is they are competing with SBST for the market share.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...
The shuttles uses PA Lances and Bus plus, and only operated on weekends so nothing to do with shortage of buses.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 $$$
Free???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.
css svcs 178 n 981Originally posted by Yaimster:They should give at least CSS fares for those services with perm Nissan buses.
me 2Originally posted by ^tamago^:they shld run NEL to my home as well, so i can get free shuttles to everywhere.![]()