When you speak of this, I really find something strange
regarding SBS Transit's press release in July 2012...While they say
there will be 260 buses funded under BSEP Batch 2, currently there
are already a total of 266 buses from BSEP Batch 2...so I suppose
they will continue register for BSEP until 450 Citaros have been
completed...there are still 72 Batch 2 Citaros left to be
registered.
nothing wrong... when they first announced BSEP in 2012, govt is
paying for 550 buses for delivery up to 2016/2017... so when
SBST announced that they have purchase 1000 new buses in 2012, only
260 are for SBST BSEP as the deliveries for these 1000 buses are up
to 2015 , thus any remainding buses for BSEP should be coming from
a later order.....
But then LTA push forward the programme and want all 550 buses
to be roll out by end 2014, thus, for SBST side, the no of BSEP
buses should be at least, 350 or more (out of 550). which
mean they have to pull more buses out of their current orders for
BSEP (thus there is a need to extend certain buses lifespan)...
