My TransitLink Guide 2004 has been with me on every single bus trip. My well-thumbed guide, with sections that have fallen out and now sometimes out-of-date, has even taken me to places I didn’t intend to go because of route changes. Which is okay, because I get to go to places I would not have, and discover things I wouldn’t have seen. That’s the joy of travel in a country I call home, but don’t know so well.
Now, four years on, I decided to upgrade to a shiny new TransitLink Guide 2009.
For years, the then Bus Guide, now TransitLink Guide has seen very little change in format. Today, for S$2.50 including GST, I’m now the owner of a copy of the hefty mini Yellow Pages of the public transportation system.
Is the new TransitLink guide an upgrade, a ho-hum side-grade or worse, a downgrade?