Bus 101

Took Bus 101 yesterday morning to get to my colleague's place to hitch a ride from her to office. This Bus 101, I shall call it 101 from now on, started off driving quite ok, at a steady pace but after it hits Upper Serangoon Road, it slows down considerably.

I can sort of feel that it is dragging on its gear and I was praying that it doesn't start to stop at the stops where there is no one, true enough, it started to pull into a bus stop even when nobody had rang the bell to get off nor is there anyone flagging it to stop. 101 just stop there, waited for a while before pulling out of the bay and drove on. It continue to drag its gear and crawl at a snail's pace all the way to the stop near the old Upper Serangoon Road Shopping Center and pull into the bus bay again.

Again, when there is nobody alighting or boarding the bus. I was really getting pissed because if you are early at reaching the interchange, you are early. Do you think that by stopping at every bus stop, some one will miraculously appear and board your bus???

101 finally continued at his snail's pace all the way to the interchange.

I remembered reading the reporting that polyclinics are charging the patients more due to the renovations that had been done to the polyclinics. If the buses are breaking down and needs extra maintenance and repairs, are we been indirectly charged higher fares to cover these extra maintenance and repairs? Then it is not fair to us because we are not the one who are driving the bus, please if you need to, charge your drivers for dragging on the gears and such, don't charge us higher fares due to the way they drive.

As it is 101 takes such a long time between buses to reach the bus stop and yet, the drivers are driving at a snail's pace just to keep to the timetable that they are set with. Are they given a set time to reach each bus stop? Even if that is the case, it is ridiculous for the bus to deliberately stop when there is no one at the bus stop.

Stupid 101, even though I was on time, I don't like the fact that you deliberately waste time just to keep to your timetable.