I got a shock 1 morning when I saw this service using a double
decker. I have never seen this before! Was this a 1 off? Or are
they planning to make it into a dual operation - double decker and
single?
Btw I got an interesting story because this brought a sad
memory.
In 1994, I was a policeman, those days service 196 used to
ply Stadium Road, but only the single decker. The double decker
would by pass and go only Nicoll Highway, because to enter Stadium
road it had to go under the Merdeka Bridge.
1 particular evening a double decker 196 actually went into
Stadium Road, it then crashed into the height barrier that is
situated before the bridge proper and the top part was ripped off.
Six to 7 pax were injured as th top part was ripped off. I attended
the case and helped later to clean up, there was a pic of me and my
colleague assisting the bus company to sweep the road !
The bus driver was charged in court, I think he was too used to
driving single decker and forgot, but how the accident happened
remains a mystery because before the height barrier I was sure
there was another one where the pole would swing in case your
height was over, so how could he miss that and drive on?
In service 54's whole fleet, there is only one double decker(not
sure if it's LO3X or VO3X). However 54 totally doesn't need DDs as
the loading has dropped nowadays.
