For 1), don't assume that they were for Tower, these buses were
already fitted with the new DDU when they came out after nearly
half a year in hiding, I suspect they are more to do with the roll
out of the new DDU and are used to substitute the perm buses of
those services where the new DDUs are being rolled out when these
perm buses go in to have their new DDUs fitted. SMRT had a batch of
A22s in the 313x to 314x series that were fitted with the new DDUs
and these were not transferred to Tower.
That doesn't mean they will or will not go to Go Ahead for sure,
though looking at the range of regos, chances are they might.
For 2) Check the press release, its 250. Though now that LTA is
in charge of buying buses, things may have changed. We already do
not know how many and what kind of buses LTA are buying as they
don't seem to be making any press releases regarding bus
purchases.
They have to figure out the 50 DM3500 replacements, and lastly
the unaccounted number of bus replacements as well - Citaro's.
If it is Volvo B9TL Wrights, generally got to figure out the
VO3X Batch 2 replacements, but the Batch 3 needs to be dragged for
9 months instead of 2 years (the 2 years is already wasted). Got to
figure it out carefully, as well as the tightening of Euro 3/Eminox
regime that needs to retire B10TLs as these are WAB. Dennis
Tridents are Euro 2 and not Eminox regime.
