social distancing in a nutshell

@@KitKitChanIsaac lol

Ikr

IWEX123 I saw it to

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Love those!

LRT be like: I wanna sleep

most likely the lrt is going back to/leaving the depot

SI BEI SIAO

@@NuuweiLol d

Si bei stubborn

@@SGDPRODUCTIONS-jf1uq nice one sia LMAO

@@TrentAirlinersWorld cause they dam.sturbborn don't want to put 5999z

Could I say something Most of the time SMRT BUSES SPEED LIKE F1 RACING AND WE PASSENGERS ARE CLINCING FOR LIFE

You're welcome!

Thank you for the kind words! The term bus captain was coined by a minister in Singapore if I remember correctly, although in reality the general public still refers to them as bus drivers and the more professional sounding bus captain title is usually only seen in official press releases

@@glitchFan2428 The problem is the general public have no respect for us and they prove it time and time again and think that all we are is their ride home. Bus driver is the all too typical term but "operator" as used in the US and "captain" in your neck of the woods is far more purposeful, but hey you guys should be proud since the buses out there are the best in the world.

the bigger ones too shy to come out

@@glitchFan2428 lol

Thanks! Had a lot of fun collaborating this video

Tower Transit does that in Singapore too on bus routes operated by it

You're welcome! Stay safe out there.

It's around 15% sped up, u can see from the man on the left leaning forward to gauge the actual speed

Isit bus 72 cos that happens often during peak hours. The BC cannot choose the shift, it's assigned to them.

@@glitchFan2428 No it is feeder service(I forgot which one)

Maybe the OCC swapped your bus's timetable with that of another bus of the same service but scheduled for a later time in the day? Was thinking if that's possible if the other bus is really getting way ahead of it's original timetable's schedule

The other 10% of cases could be (but not limited to) some bc purposely late to "keng" a trip or two, or some bc they just naturally drive very very slow sometimes despite warning from the company

Oh, thanks for the explanation!

@glitchfan2428 I know one BC friend 👨‍🦱 who once knows his back bus BC👨‍💼 (BC of the bus that is behind the one he's driving) is going to do one more trip after arriving interchange while he 👨‍🦱 (bc friend) gets to go back to depot after arriving at interchange so he purposely late by few minutes so that the back bus BC 👨‍💼 don't need to fetch so much passengers and make sure he 👨‍💼 can arrive interchange with proper breaks because 👨‍🦱 he's nice and they friend friend👨‍🦱👨‍💼 mah. Also last trip for him 👨‍🦱 doesn't really matter since break time is not applicable for off service buses at interchange

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Haha unfortunately our buses are locked to 60kmh, which is half of the whole speedometer :(

@@glitchFan2428 somehow i got launched when only half is being used

If you're referring to the older style bendy buses then there's a possibility that the speed limiter might have been faulty 👀

@@glitchFan2428 O405gs?

Yup!

Thank you!

Depends on which operator you are riding, you may have a different experience

​@@mingyoushaaa5815 which operator applies this method?

IIC the B9TL's trip computer will flash an 'overspeed' alert whenever the bus's speed exceeds 50km/h

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0:38 bus 83 = 38

@@rayyan6515 what do u mean?😕

Ahhh I can understand why

First and last bus must strictly follow the timing. If the bus is early for more than 1min or later than 5mins of the schedule time, the bus operator will be fined.

Hmm this kind of delays do happen from time to time ah

The distances between the buses cannot be too short. This is because buses tend to bunch together. Rather than minimising the uniform time, having too many buses only results in traffic jams and like 5 buses coming at the same time after a 10 minute of nothingness. So yes, while your suggestion is "good looking on paper", it is "rather rubbish in practice".

Yes it does sometimes, but I believe that unless the buses are scheduled close to each other, the control center would try and stop this from happening

15 minutes in not that long. If you go to other countries, the waiting time is even longer.

I totally understand the frustration, sometimes I'm tempted to cut the white line to overtake using the oncoming lane

I'm sorry for your ordeal! Here our buses do break down every now & then (especially the newer ones), but most services have a waiting time of no more than 15 minutes. I suppose the trade off is that we don't have 24 hour service.

@@glitchFan2428 cheers bud. But most days are an ordeal with go north east lol, break downs delays and even sometimes a phantom bus ( shows up on the app as on its route nearby but never actually turns up to the bus stop I use) Are the newer ones that break down part of the go ahead group Singapore??? Go ahead group owns about 50-60% (might be more) of the UK's bus routes and is also on some of our train services, they are also in Singapore, as well as Nordic which is the likes of Sweden, Ireland which will be the Republic, and bahn and bus which is on Germany. As most of the buses I seen in your video are the ones that was on my areas routes about 4 years ago before being updated. It wouldn't suprise me one little bit if they are, as the go ahead group buses are notorious for break downs especially around winter time lol.

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In singapore's case it's the land transport authority to blame, the bus companies are merely their poor puppets

glitchFan2428 poor, i don’t think so. The bus companies are running the routes using mostly taxpayers funded buses (yes, the government buys buses and gives it to them) and pocketing the profits.

Oh, I didn't mean financially poor, what I meant was that they are subjected to widespread scrutiny by the transport authority and are expected to follow every order blindly without any protest, even when their operational expertise trumps that of the authority.

I don't think so. If you think about it, bus services that can go faster will reduce the number of buses needed for the whole route at one time, hence saving manpower & money from being faster.

No, the bus company simply wants to have people who want to take a bus to have a better experience in the sense that they arrive in a more steady fashion instead of (later down the route) 2 or 3 buses at the same stop, while the 2 behind might be (officially) scheduled to arrive 10 and 20 minutes later than the very first one at the same stop. From what I can tell (we basically have the same system in The Netherlands though our bus transportation company we have now (EBS) doesn't adhere to it this strict like Arriva used to do) it is done so that buses on the same route with the same destination who used to skip stops when there were no passengers wanting to get on or off the bus will not be superearly near the busstops more at the end of the route, causing people who expect a bus at, let's say 11:20 to miss it because in the 10 minute time window that they expected to be on time waiting for it, the bus had already departed. Funny enough, I've had these kind of experiences a couple of times with EBS as well (though people thankfully do not swear at the driver) and timed fast driving drivers (not unsafe fast, but just with more speed) and the really relaxed driving ones, and I turned up on my destination at the exact same time. It's mostly a matter of perception: not having to brake or come to a complete standstill at some junctions but due to the low speed being able to drive up to them and the driver having enough time to watch for oncoming traffic and then being able to drive through without stopping buys the same amount of time when the driver is driving fast. (By the way, some of the traffic lights that have a preference module for giving public transportation vehicles a green light upon nearing them will also refuse the green light when the bus is way to early and slow it down that way.)

I really wish to go back and take 15 again. Roaring all the way up the peak 👍🏻

So you rather the driver defy his superior's orders, drive fast and lose his bonus and eventually his job just so you can attend to your matters?

@@glitchFan2428 is dat ur solution?

I'm not sure about that. Anyone can enlighten?

Maybe it break down

That's what I love about HK, their buses are very fast

That was before 🤦