I think obsoleting long haul buses is a great idea, even though I don't take buses myself

"We will not introduce new cross-country services, because those are really legacies of the past. But we will review every (existing) one to see whether they need to be sustained."

Mrs Lim pointed out that as a bus journey gets longer, it becomes harder to accurately predict its arrival time. Small delays at each bus stop can snowball and lengthen the overall waiting time for passengers.

-- Lim Hwee Hua, Second Minister for Transport


This announcement came at the time when human congestion on MRT trains could not get worse. Interesting that Mrs Lim also pointed out that it is difficult to predict buses arrival time when the journey gets too long, though other countries have no such problem with their even longer haul cross-country services. One might wonder, when was the last time that she has taken public transport.