When staggering doesn’t work

Bus stop staggering sounds like a good idea to make buses travel faster and stop less, right? Why isn’t that happening then?

Where next?

The cat’s out of the bag. “Adjustments” from December, and what is in store.

This town actually doesn’t need feeders?

In stark contrast to the hub-and-spoke approach, other towns offer us a more connective vision of both intra-town and inter-town public transport. Here’s one where feeders are actually quite redundant, and only needed for capacity purposes.

Basics: Travel time

There’s more to trip times than meets the eye.

100 posts, and asking for more

Today, on 22 March 2023, the STC blog officially publishes its 100th post. And we address the question central to what STC does — why demand more?

Hub-and-Spoke: Yishun the microcosm

The way Yishun is planned very snugly fits the ideal “hub-and-spoke” model that LTA has been proposing. In the not good sense, obviously.

In the event of a train disruption…

Or, a guide on what to do and NOT to do when a rail line goes down.

The long trunk problem

Long trunk bus routes carry benefits that many often overlook (thank the pro-rail lobby), but they have issues unique to them too. The main one: the runtime-safety tradeoff. Here’s a proposed solution.

10 years on, some lessons are still not learnt

It has been a decade since the start of large-scale train mania that eventually became a staple of everyday life. And we still haven’t learned.

Bus rationalisation: the spiel

I really don’t want to deal with LTA’s mindless irrationalisation ever again. The next time they start wielding the axe, just send this post around.