Dear SMRT, I don’t need to be reminded, on a daily basis no less, that our public transport infrastructure is in need of a major overhaul. An alarm clock rings at a predetermined time in the morning. I love it for waking me up on time. I detest it for destroying my inception-ing moments. If I [...]
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SMRT, I don’t need a reminder
Posted: 6 April 2011 in cars, singaporeTags: bus, buses, mass, rail, railway, rapid, sbs, sg, singapore, smrt, system, train, trains, transit, transport
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Mandatory Give Way to Buses Scheme: Thoughts
Posted: 19 December 2010 in cars, life, singaporeTags: buses, car, cars, driver, drivers, Give, lanes, lta, Mandatory, motoring, news, one, road, roads, sbs, Scheme, sg, singapore, smrt, train, trains, transit, Way
The Land Transport Authority (LTA) extends the Mandatory Give Way to Buses Scheme to 29 additional bus bays. With this extension, there will be a total of 202 bus-bays island-wide under this scheme. The full list of bus stops affected (or infected) by this scheme can be found here. Okay, I am not going to type Mandatory Give Way [...]
SBS/SMRT may have overcharged you
Posted: 23 November 2010 in life, singapore, technologyTags: bus, overcharge, overcharging, public, refund, refunds, routes, sbs, smrt, transit, transport
Technology still can fail. and fail, it just did. SBS Transit/SMRT is in the process of correcting some errors in their distance calculations which start as far back as 3rd July 2010. They should be done by 26th November 2010. Proceed here to check if your bus service routes are affected. Do note that you can [...]
CCL-ing: A Review
Posted: 26 April 2010 in life, singapore, technologyTags: ccl, circle, line, sbs, singapore, transit
“Your attention please. For your own safety, please stand behind the yellow line.” My virgin trip on the ORANGE line, and it was quite a great experience. However, there are issues that definitely can be improved on. Here goes, my review of Circle Line. (this is what exams does to people.) Alighted from the EW [...]
caught in the act
Posted: 8 May 2009 in life, reviews, technologyTags: feedback, interval, late, sbs, slow, time, transit, waiting
One look at this picture and I am sure you will understand how I felt at 1613 hrs….. ho ho ho! I’ve been waiting for hard evidence to refute SBS claims that their buses arrive on time, based on their inspectors. So, SBS, here is my evidence after 9 long years (since my secondary school [...]
shuttle service @ NTU
Posted: 16 March 2009 in cars, life, NTU, reviews, technologyTags: a, b, c, NTU, sbs, service, shuttle, student, union
“Shuttle” is defined as ‘a form of transportation that travels regularly between two places.’ NTU’s shuttle service is hopeless to a certain extent. Despite the many improvements or adjustments done by the school or the Student Union, the ‘shuttle’ service is still not functioning well in some areas. People who are coming to NTU soon [...]
