There is clearly a problem when a full bus arrives at a stop, only to be closely followed by another bus just as full. There is evidently a problem when 20 students (yes, I counted) alight at one stage and another 10 (yes, I counted again) alight at another.

Obviously, the bus service is not keeping up with demand, especially during peak morning hours.

I have no degrees in transportation and logistics management, nor have I ever been involved in the building of the Tokyo public transportation system or Copenhagen’s automatically-driven metro system.

I have no relatives who were involved in the building of the London or Istanbul underground either.

Yet I fear, in my admittedly limited knowledge, that such a dire situation does not encourage the use of public transport.

Rather, it encourages people who use public transport instead of their own car – people like myself – to actually revert back to their environmentally unfriendly ways.