Actually I didn't want to pen down my thoughts on this matter.
But I'd ever encountered two near accidents, 1) at congested PIE when the SBS bus I was on was attempting to filter to the middle lane), 2) at CJC along Whitley Rd when the SBS buses are trying to filter to the bus stop as the left lane is clogged by parents queueing to drop off their kids inside the school compound.
In this 2 scenario, I could have tripped and fall thanks to heartless parents/ car drivers. Not only that,
In the PIE incident the car driver just immediately sped up noticing the bus was filtering. I could have tripped and hit a grab pole all thanks to him. Yet he thinks he's right by making a rude gesture to the bus driver. For trying to fight to be first (the ego), we commuters (especially the standing ones) suffer.
In the CJC incident, no one wants to give way to the buses. It's as if other than their precious gems, everyone else does not need to get to school, to work on time. No one bothered to give way to the buses to enter and exit the bus stop bay at CJC even though the left lane they're on being congested (the buses could still filter to the right to proceed to PIE).
In any case I think MOE should ban parents from dropping off their kids inside the school compound. It does nothing but to only delay bus service operations. The buses are already very packed thanks to the 'good' initiative to start school later at 8am, clashing with people heading to work.
Yet at the same time, the same government is trying to encourage Singaporeans to take public transport.
In any case, I'm a driver myself just happened to commute to work and play more via public transport.
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