179 VO3x batch 1 and 2 deployments are always messy with no perm
except the batch 1 and 2 that were perm before 2009.
9506A and 9567Y were at one time on the service for nearly 2
months and were discovered to be non-perm.
Similarly, 9406E was on the service for a consistently for a
long period of time, but a new 'SP' marking was recently spotted on
the coinbox so 9406E is now SP.
Someone edited 9405H and 9443Y to be perm, but these buses were
never perm. Same case for 9391M (who edited that in last time!?!)
and 9230U.
Recently, I spotted 9410S, 9434Z and 9513D to be running
consistently. But I doubt these buses are perm.
This service seems to have disappearing buses every day and some
long term disappearances. 9670H is currently nowhere to be found.
And at least 5 to 7 slots are permanently filled up by rotating SP
buses (always the newly transferred batch 1 and 2 from HGDEP or
BBDEP).
So yea, none of them are perm. These slots will surely be taken
over by another batch of short term buses in the near future. One
thing that puzzles me is why SLBP still doesn't want to put perm
Wrights on 179.
Its a common sight for svc 179, 179 drivers or buses will
fill up the empty of other services when needed.. So they kinda of
act like standby drivers and spare buses..
There are alrdy wrights assigned to 179, but just not the time
yet.