Provide bus arrival time and sequential stop number

24 July 2012 

Editor, Voices

Today Paper

The Land Transport Authority is carrying out a survey to find out the 

interest of the commuters on information that indicate the loading of a 

particular bus, i.e. if seats are available.

Apparently, this an be obtained using the data that is now being collected

for the computation of bus fares.

It is more urgent to tell the commuters about the expected time of arrival 

of the next bus for a specific service. This will allow the commuter to make

better use of the time while waiting for the bus to arrive.

While this information is now available for SBS buses, it is not being 

provided for SMRT buses. LTA can use its data to provide a comprehensive

service.

LTA should also ask the bus operators to display the sequential stop 

number for each service. This will help the commuters to identify the

stop to alight from the bus, even if they are not familiar with the places along

the route.

Tan Kin Lian