Bus Observations (2014)

last SG · 2014-01-03T19:53:28+00:00

... has had her claims of negligence dismissed with costs. Nitcharee had sued train operator SMRT and the Land Transport Authority for negligence. In his jud...

23ispolo SG

Today, when I took SBS1688K on 84:

A female passenger wanted to alight at Blk 604A and had pressed the bell, but the female BC was unaware of the bell sounding as it was too soft... When I told her about this just as she was about to turn to Punggol Central, she had to swerve into the small waiting area after the bus stop to let the passenger alight... She asked me if it was her fault or the passenger's fault. I told her that the bell was too soft, that was why she was unaware of the bell sounding. I told her to tell the depot about this issue, so this incident wouldn't happen again...

23ispolo SG

Anyway, only for today (due to NDP rehearsal today):

Bus services which end their trips at Marina Centre Ter (like 171 and 75) had to loop at Temasek Ave (Opp The Ritz-Carlton bus stop), as the parking lots for the bus services at the terminal area were blocked... This meant that buses had to start trips immediately from The Esplanade. The bus stop (Seating Gallery) outside the floating platform was barricaded due to the NDP rehearsal. Thus, passengers going for the NDP rehearsal had to alight at The Esplanade, leading to huge crowds at the bus stop...

BusAnalayzer SG

the new TPE bus-stop next to Sengkang will also serve route to PGL and northern areas. the front of the busstop will serve route turning left to Sengkang. the rear of busstop will serve routes turning to PGL or continue onto TPE. look at the road markings and you will know why.

Makes sense otherwise it would be stupid to make the interchange stop and have different services call in each direction. I don't know why there was this speculation in first place.

BusAnalayzer SG

exactly! i still see 307P buses with less than 10 pax onboard..307 BCs are complaining that no one dare to board 307P, and everyone squeeze onto 307 even though its full...and on multiple occasions 307 and 307P pair together, sometimes 307, 307E and 307P all come together.

This whole P variant is a very stupid move. LTA is anyway buying buses. If it felt that these services need more buses, should have just added low floor buses to these services on their existing parent route with same bus number. Weird ways of trying hard to please!

23ispolo SG

Yea, I mentioned a number of times that LTA must add buses to 307 itself, not introduce a duplicating service which does not have worthy loading for its existence! They must learn that new routes are not all the point.

BusAnalayzer SG

240P is a failure... Have seen on 4-5 occasions... Bus leaving Lakeside MRT with 6-12 pax only. People still prefer 240.

268P is another failure.. At AMK MRT, bus normally leaves with not more than 10 pax on board.

LTA just has too much money to waste on these P variants. Would have been better if DDs were added to 268 instead - would have done the job or introduce 76M between YCK MRT that would loop @ AMK ave 3/YCK road junction.

For 143, it did the right thing by bringing in 143M. Why didn't they do 143P here also? 143M is doing so much better than the stupid buses deployed on the P variants.

dupdup77 SG

240P is a failure... Have seen on 4-5 occasions... Bus leaving Lakeside MRT with 6-12 pax only. People still prefer 240.

268P is another failure.. At AMK MRT, bus normally leaves with not more than 10 pax on board.

For 143, it did the right thing by bringing in 143M. Why didn't they do 143P here also? 143M is doing so much better than the stupid buses deployed on the P variants.

What do all these have in common? This shows just 1 thing: for singaporeans, old habits die hard. They are not used to changes and they prefer the old brands, sbs transit and smrt. Cheers.

SMB42P SG

Agree totally! Just hope that later LTA dont remove all these services (240P, 268P, 307P ... ) saying low loading and that these services (240, 268, 307) are not having heavy loads ....

TIB429E SG

240P is a failure... Have seen on 4-5 occasions... Bus leaving Lakeside MRT with 6-12 pax only. People still prefer 240.

268P is another failure.. At AMK MRT, bus normally leaves with not more than 10 pax on board.

For 143, it did the right thing by bringing in 143M. Why didn't they do 143P here also? 143M is doing so much better than the stupid buses deployed on the P variants.

I heard from 912P commuters that 912P is kind of useless as the bus would arrive together with 912 most of the time..which isn't helping the fleet enough..

TIB429E SG

[OT abit]

Buses arriving Clementi tend to queue to enter the bus stop bay. Sometimes, when the back bus overtook and cut into the bus bay, it resulted in those in the queue getting stucked for longer time.

Should LTA change the bus stop infrastructure to the one seen in Kranji?

BusAnalayzer SG

I heard from 912P commuters that 912P is kind of useless as the bus would arrive together with 912 most of the time..which isn't helping the fleet enough..

I would have thought 912P would gave better loading than the other P variants. When service is run by SBST or SMRT, they would at least try to avoid such bunching. Now 291 bunching has gone to 3-4 buses. You have 291 from SBST bunch with 291P. Is this really helping out? I really not sure.

23ispolo SG

240P is a failure... Have seen on 4-5 occasions... Bus leaving Lakeside MRT with 6-12 pax only. People still prefer 240.

268P is another failure.. At AMK MRT, bus normally leaves with not more than 10 pax on board.

I guess if 291P seems to be successful, I guess it's because the staff force passengers to board the private bus at the interchange...

23ispolo SG

Wake up, thread! Anyway, before it retires after faithfully serving SMRT, TIB498E's front BUS STOPPING sign in red :

Quite rare to have front sign in red, see it more commonly for the middle sign (TIB475X, TIB482A, TIB740E and some more like TIB792E)...

SMB42P SG

SMB3503G upper deck pax counter not working...keep showing 40 even though there are people coming up and down..1st day only sia..

23ispolo SG

SBS9382P (HGDEP 51) - one of the few Volvo Olympians with very clear ZF howls (when you see at lower deck)... Super shiok aircon! Lovely bus!

*SMB81B (AMDEP 851) with super dirty interior, like SMB97G...

SMB251C (WLDEP 167) - excurciatingly loud pneumatic front doors when opening and closing... But, unique enigne sound, so still a nice MAN...

*SMB256P (WLDEP 167) left front leaf door flap finally fixed... Good job SMRT!

SMB329M (WLBP 75) - rear door not sealed properly, panel between standee area and first right seat at rear half of bus, got broken connector, makes a very annoying shaky sound over humps :

Winn 2001 SG

SMB2E got masking tape over the lights at the front doors... Seems like any tape that works all can... Duct tape, masking tape, scotch tape...

SMB44J got a keep quiet sign... Maybe for the driver to concentrate on driving...

TIB783G SG

Does anyone feel that 178's timing is 'tight' on both weekdays and weekends? I just have a feeling it won't work out.

178AM01

0500 Overnight parking at WLD Bus
0545 Boon Lay Interchange (assuming this is the 1st bus)

0545 Boon Lay Interchange
0713 Woodlands Regional Interchange

0725 Woodlands Regional Interchange
0904 Boon Lay Interchange

0916 Boon Lay Interchange
1040 Woodlands Regional Interchange m

Post mealbreak 1040-1109

1109 Woodlands Regional Interchange
1240 Boon Lay Interchange

1252Boon Lay Interchange
1419 Woodlands Regional Interchange C

C= Change shift at Woodlands
M= Paid mealbreak at Boon Lay Interchange

178PM01

1426 Woodlands Regional Interchange
1555 Boon Lay Interchange

1607 Boon Lay Interchange
1740 Woodlands Regional Interchange M

Paid mealbreak 1740-1809

1809 Woodlands Regional Interchange
1956 Boon Lay Interchange

2008 Boon Lay Interchange
2139 Woodlands Regional Interchange

2155 Woodlands Regional Interchange
2309 Boon Lay Interchange - If they are smart enough they should let this slot go as last bus

2309 Boon Lay Interchange
2400 Overnight parking at WLD Bus

SMB42P SG

SERVICE 172 OBSERVATION:

Today, during AM peak, there was a slight bus service delay. SMB56A (172AM05) left CCK INT at 0813hrs (scheduled to leave at 0808hrs) and after that there was no bus. 172S106 that was scheduled behind 172AM05 (to leave cck int at 0815hrs) did not come. At 0822hrs, SMB57Y (172AM06) reached CCK INT and this was the very bus that picked up pax at 0830hrs. Bus was already 8 mins late (scheduled to depart at 0822hrs).

Due to a long wait between SMB56A and SMB57Y, many pax boarded SMB57Y and it was packed to the door. Driver was mad rushing especially along Old CCK Road but alighting was delayed on SMB57Y as one of the exit ez link machine was not working. Soon, at Before Lim Chu Kang Road bus stop, TIB896P (172S103) caught up with SMB57Y and by the time the 2 buses reached Blk 263 bus stop (BS 21379), it was 9am (57Y late for about 10 mins)...2 mins later, TIB960L (172AM07) came by....

Merczrox SG

TIB518G front merc badge is upside down..

Noticed some CDGE B9TLs the rear right reversing light will blink when the right signal is turned on..

carbikebus SG

TIB750B AMDEP champion of speedster now limited to 63kmh..But acceleration is still the best

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