Near accident onboard buses - thanks to car drivers!

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.

Woodsville Interchange traffic gridlock - 16/10/2010

Oh well, LTA has made the currently most drastic ever road diversion to any road upgrading project today and next Sunday at the ongoing Woodsville Interchange/ Flyover upgrading project. The road diversion details is available at the hyperlink below.

http://app.lta.gov.sg/announce_content.asp?start=ubu74g1c9g2kv0bj9c84qf569j8ecooo20clgff82uixy4ot86

So I was held up onboard SBS bus 154 along PIE (Changi) in a gridlock for 20 - 25 mins for just some 1.6km. The jam started at Toa Payoh stretching all the way to the Woodsville Flyover grade-level road junction. I did noticed that even Toa Payoh Lor 6 ended up badly affected by the congestion as well. It's crazy as 25 mins could mean roughly being able to take Bus 154 from Ngee Ann Poly's campus bus stop to Potong Pasir before this diversion.

Looks like it's simply going to be worst on Monday. Expect massive delays on SBS Svs 5, 8, 13, 23, 26, 31, 59, 64, 65, 66, 90, 107, 125, 133, 142, 147, 151, 151e, 154, 506 & SMRT Svs 853, 857, 966, 985. If Toa Payoh Lor 6 indeed turns out to be congested, SBS Sv 57 & 238 would be dragged into the picture as well.