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Public bus transport service should be available 24hrs a day. Do you agree? Support your answers with reasons.

In Singapore, public bus transport isn't availabe 24 hrs. So can anyone answer this?

Public Comments

1. No, it shouldn't. 1. Waste of money. 2. Waste of gas/pollution 3. Dangerous... bus drivers could be robbed/killed.
2. No it shouldn't. Public transportation should make a profit like any other business. If there aren't enough riders then the route should be eliminated.
3. In an ideal world, yes, public transport would be cheap, efficient and available 24hrs a day. However, public transport faces serious funding issues, and the revenues generated overnight (for example 0300-0600) wouldn't come anywhere near to matching the cost of running the bus/train, paying drivers and fuel costs.
4. Not 24 hours but definitely but at least until midnight.
5. If i go out far often and i don't have a car, then i agree that a transport servicice should be available 24hrs a day. On the other hand, if i have a car i think i don't need that coz there will be alot of problems. For example, if you live near the bus service route, you will hear bus noises. There will be more "happening" on the road at night times. However, we have taxis 24hrs so there is no problem in getting transport especially if emergency, can always book one.
6. Public busses shouldn't be available at all. A bus averages six passengers at a time. Because the passengers have to ride the route, they end up traveling *much* further than if they went directly where they were going. With busses getting 6 MPG if they're maintained well, that means that it'd take less energy to move the passengers if they were each driving low-milage vehicles like pickup trucks. They wouldn't, of course. A parent with two children would use one vehicle, not three, and probably drive something fairly economical, that gets 30 MPG instead of the 12 MPG of a pickup truck. Busses are wide. They congest traffic as they hog two lanes going down the street - and they block traffic when they pull over to pick up a passenger or let one off, despite the fact that they have bus stops that they should be pulling into. Speaking of bus stops, that bus with six passengers ends up using an average of 37 bus stops, each large enough to park four cars. Additionally, you have to hire a driver for those six passengers. Most bus systems don't even cover half of their costs through fares, but public systems are afraid to charge the full cost, as ridership would drop precipitously. If people aren't willing to pay what it costs, why are we using tax money to make up the difference? Busses are totally impractical when you're shopping. You can't carry home a trunk full of groceries when you ride the bus. Are you going to make a separate trip to the store to buy each case of bottled water, a separate trip for every two gallons of milk? It typically takes me six to eight trips to carry groceries in from the car to the house. It's not very "green" to take six or eight trips to the supermarket, carrying home one armload of groceries at a time. Busses cause a lot of traffic accidents as they swerve in and out of bus stops, and as they disregard lane boundaries. Some of them involve the bus; most of them involve autos - and pedestrians trying to avoid the bus. Many communities have no bus service at all - and surprise, they're much more liveable communities than big cities are. Nope, running busses 24 hours a day is a bad idea. A good idea would be to shut down busses entirely.