7 - Totally overcrowded, especially on Saturday afternoons. Not to mention slow like crazy as well, especially on the stretch between Holland Road and Victoria Street.
8, 10, 16 - Never taken regularly, so I have no comment.
21 - Taken many times, but fortunately all in non-peak hours. I'm guessing the overcrowded part if this service is the long stretch along Sims Avenue, but I dunno.
28 - Wow. I know about this all too well. I took this once on a weekday morning and I was shocked to discover it took about 20 mins to travel down Bedok North Avenue 3. Not to mention so many people on it was hard to move around. The evening peak is not much better, even with a double decker bus, there was almost no room to stand when I got on at Bedok MRT.
58 - Never taken.
59 - Only sat at non-peak times, but I would hate to be on an overcrowded 59 on the long PIE stretch, standing the whole way. (There was once I stood the whole way on a 502 Express from Jurong East to Orchard, but the less I try to remember from that traumatic incident the better.)
90, 97, 145 - Dunno. No comment.
196 - Awful, awful mess. Very slow sometimes. Just another annoying service. Unless you take it around the Dover area - then its ok.
198 - I have taken it before when I went to NUH - not that crowded, but then again it wasn't 6pm.
246 - Never seen before.
254 - Oh yes. I have seen this service at the evening peak time, and I swear I have never seen more foreign workers trapped on the same bus together before. I wonder what its like on the non-air con buses. Not to be mean or anything.
255 - Same as for the 254. But less so.
Oh yeah, why is the 5 not on this list? Because there have been multiple times that I have barely been able to squeeze onto the 5 because it was too packed, and one of those times it wasn't even peak hour. It was 10pm. Not to mention that I had another traumatic 5 incident today. I was waiting at the bus stop for the 5. I had been there almost 30 mins, and I realised that I had not even seen a 5 bus, in either direction. But 2 of every other service had already passed me. I got worried as I thought maybe it wasn't operating today. I called the LTA Hotline, and to their credit, were very helpful, telling me that it was working, and said the next bus was due in 15 mins. Just before I started getting impatient (I mean, why should I have to wait 45 mins for a bus. Even in KL you don't have to do that) a 5 just suddenly pulled up to the bus stop. I really feel that the 5 service is out to irritate me as best as it can. Thanks to them, I was late for dinner. But that is always to be expected.
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