Bendies are a bane, a hazard and a complete road hog everywhere
on the roads and bus stops, bus interchanges and bus depots.
Stop bring any more of these buses in Singapore!!! 
I think it is high time SMRT needs to deploy Double Deckers on
its route. The bendy buses can be kept in the regional Woodlands,
CCK, Bukit Panjang area but it should not be plied in main city
area like Orchard road. The bendy buses causes queuing of buses and
it is rather better to have double deckers deployed especially on
routes 190 and 106. Your thoughts?
Bendy buses are also creating many problems on feeder services as
well, especially those interchanges with many feeder services.
Normally, they will cause a lot of jams and queues along bus stops
and bus inetrchanges, which cause delay to other buses and
passengers. They should be removed from the roads when lifespans
are up.
I wonder this thread should be locked.
No need to lock this thread. It is high time that SMRT should
convert changing to double deckers. You told a guy off in the
Scania topic in another thread, so why you want to stop people on
their views about this topic??? 
Stop dreaming about citaro Gs.
SBST is FIXED to ONLY have SD that is NON ARTICULATED and DDs that
IS NOT ARTICULATED ALSO.
SMRT is also only using SD AND SD THAT ARE ARTICULATED. IF SMRT USE
DDS, THERE WILL BE A NEED FOR A MAJOR SMRT OVERHAUL FOR BCS TO
TRAIN TO USE DDS.
It will take 2 - 9 months for ALL BCs to be able to drive DDs as
DDs are harder to control. So, SMRT will STICK to articulated and
single decks, DDs-free.
Also the SAME OLD REASON why USA is NOT WILLING to change it's
MEASUREMENTS to be the SAME as the rest. It CONTINUES to use the
old units like inches, yards, fluid ounces and so on. Because to
change, the government need to play MILLIONS of dollars - just to
change.
So you get it? If SMRT were to use DDs, they would need to let all
their BC to train to use it.
It's not true.
Why SMRT can't buy double deckers? They should change to double
deckers so that their operations will be smoother, more buses can
be parked inside the depot, and less jams and queues in bus
interchanges. SMRT bus services is so messed up now, and these long
buses are partially the reason behind it. SMRT has to be practical
on its operations and use the kind of buses that don't give them so
much problems which yet offer them a chance to improve their
services, not fanciful thoughts of trying to be different which in
the end become worse in which what they are in now.
And if LTA wants to put more buses on the roads, then please get
rid of all the bendies or else there will be many problems with
long bus queues, jams along bus stops, interchanges, etc. Hong Kong
bus system is successful in such a populated city, fast and
efficient. We should look into practical ways to improve our bus
system, not buy these road hogging buses for the sake of having
them.
In fact, double deckers are more easier to control than bendies
because they are the same length of single deckers. Bendies are
hard to reverse, sharp turns, U-turns. The thing being different
driving a double decker from a single decker is just have to be
careful and slow down on turns and be wary of low height areas (if
stick to the route, then there is no problem at all). Thus it is
easier to train BCs. Training all BCs to drive these big capacity
buses does not happen overnight. SMRT can still train
them batch by batch, as SMRT buys new double deckers batch by
batch to replace the bendies scrapped batch by batch.
Isn't it the same as what SBST and SMRT train their BCs to drive
WAB buses 4 years back? It can be done.
So, SMRT can still change to double deckers and ditch
bendies for good. 
