{"id":71176,"date":"2026-07-24T04:59:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=71176"},"modified":"2026-07-24T04:59:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:59:04","slug":"why-your-wait-for-a-bus-in-singapore-feels-so-long-even-when-it-is-on-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=71176","title":{"rendered":"Why your wait for a bus in Singapore feels so long even when it is on time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!----><\/p>\n<p><strong>Methodology:<\/strong> The data for this interactive project was drawn from live bus arrival data using code from the LTA Bus Arrival API, covering 320 bus services across more than 5,000 bus stops. Data was polled every five minutes over five days, from April 20 to April 24, 2026. Each poll recorded the next few buses expected at a stop and the estimated arrival times. Getting confirmation on the exact time a bus arrives is not possible at a five-minute polling interval. Hence, the time gap between the first and second upcoming buses at each stop was used as a proxy for the actual interval between buses.<\/p>\n<p>The scheduled frequency for each bus service, as published by the LTA, is typically given as a range (for example, 10 to 12 minutes). The upper bound of this range was taken as the expected waiting time. This was compared with the actual recorded gap between buses; a scheduled range of 10 to 12 minutes against an actual gap of 17 minutes was recorded as a five-minute delay.<\/p>\n<p>As with any snapshot of a live transport network, results reflect conditions specific to the collection period. Weather, road works, traffic incidents and changes to road infrastructure may have influenced arrival times, and findings may not fully generalise to periods before or after the collection window.<\/p>\n<p><!----><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/multimedia\/graphics\/2026\/07\/singapore-bus-waits\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Methodology: The data for this interactive project was drawn from live bus arrival data using code from the LTA Bus Arrival API, covering 320 bus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}