Originally posted by Oceane:For the one that has to overnight park it just means the next day's AM shift can come in later rather than pick up his bus from the depot, so if you save time on the PM it essentially transfers over to the AM portion only. So the difference is very marginal.
Maybe I stand corrected about WLDEP swapping 2 bendies out, but they have been replacing it with rigids on a fair basis, even swapping out the S shift bendies with rigids too. Freq has been worst (thats the standard trademark of WLDEP controlled services - poor management of scheduling efficiency), but the most awkward thing is the fact that why even go WLDEP in the first place?
1) On weekdays, several WLDEP AM shifts start their shift by downrouting at Motorola towards Yishun, a bare 100m outside AMDEP.
2) The rest start off at Yishun, with the majority of AMDEP shifts now going off to Bedok despite the fact that their BCs collect the bus from Yishun itself (Note that previously it holds true too since there is only 1 depot control, half the fleet goes down to Bedok to start but now you have two depot controls, it is supposed to make things easier and not complicated).
3) Consider that if overnight parking at YII actually is supposed to benefit AM drivers from just collecting their bus at the starting point, then WLDEP buses should theoretically start at Bedok which defeats the whole purpose of transferring control to another depot much much further away.
4) On weekends, half the WLDEP AM shifts start off at Bedok, and about the same number end off at Bedok as well.
If you consider so much inconsistencies, why even transfer to WLDEP in the first place? AMDEP is the best midpoint for this service, and giving up partial control to WLDEP just based on the fact that YII is equally close to both depots just does not make sense except for the fact that it is to free up more space. I'd rather they split up other Yishun services like 851 or 855 to KJDEP instead.
851 and 855 to WLDEP I am fine.
No are you serious about WLD 854 starters starting their trips near YCK area? It would really be time wasting WLBP-SLE-Jalan Kayu and towards the YCK area I think it would be best if they return some of them to AMDEP seriously or make the AMDEP buses downroute to YCK area not the WLD buses to do these downroutes for them. If WLDEP really do just that they really have nothing better to do seriously.
Can you list out the duties of WLDEP 854 that end in bedok? Would appreciate that.