The sorry state of bendy buses today

last SG · 2012-04-16T11:36:41+00:00

Still remember the 17 Dec disruption..How the Habit had to turn out from Novena Church bus stop to keep right to get to Newton Rd..lol

sbst275 SG

Not want to whack on this, but seriously I've begun seeing the downfall of bendy buses..

1) Near stalling of engine: Whenever the bus halts, the engine is like going to stall like that. The clutch engagement is not there anymore.

2) Headlights/ signal: Some dun even have signal lights.

3) Aircon: Air is reek of smell of dust, fungy..

4) Handgrips: Like totally removed alrdy, so is standee allowed? lol

5) EDS: Some of the EDS alrdy died for so long and no one bothers.

Goes to show how much SMRT feels about upkeeping bendy buses actually...

Merczrox SG

I remember seeing this Habit on 851 a few times with a rear ad at the back with it's 3rd brake light on even when the bus is moving.I saw the bus 2 or 3 times b4 and the problem nvr seemed to be fixed.

Took TIB1041H on 969 last month and the bus was roaring like super crazy.Accelerate abit only then start roaring like mad alr.Rear interior was also quite stuffy with the aircon not working properly.

TIB1058K's rear exterior seems as if like the bus might catch fire anytime soon like that.The engine cover is in a very bad condition for very long as if like the bus had alr caught fire b4.Nothing seems to have been done about this bus too.

SMB228X SG

Not want to whack on this, but seriously I've begun seeing the downfall of bendy buses..

1) Near stalling of engine: Whenever the bus halts, the engine is like going to stall like that. The clutch engagement is not there anymore.

2) Headlights/ signal: Some dun even have signal lights.

3) Aircon: Air is reek of smell of dust, fungy..

4) Handgrips: Like totally removed alrdy, so is standee allowed? lol

5) EDS: Some of the EDS alrdy died for so long and no one bothers.

Goes to show how much SMRT feels about upkeeping bendy buses actually...

SMRT will refurbish all and bring in Citaro G and MAN bendy!!!

Gorba eds installed on many bendy, more to come!! After refurbish the bendy sure look new!!!

SMB66X SG

SMRT will refurbish all and bring in Citaro G and MAN bendy!!!

Gorba eds installed on many bendy, more to come!! After refurbish the bendy sure look new!!!

After shutting your big smelly mouth, SgForums will be better~

SMB66X SG

Although most of the bendies are "cui"(lousy), there's still some who are working well. TIB1139K, TIB1090R are some of them. The worst(for me) is still TIB1000B, with strong foul smell in the interior always..

phillipC SG

Company culture one word to describe - Mo chap. Same for the LRT train. Dust and water leaking even not raining.

SBS 1000U SG

SMRT will refurbish all and bring in Citaro G and MAN bendy!!!

Gorba eds installed on many bendy, more to come!! After refurbish the bendy sure look new!!!

Would you just STFU on Citaro G and MAN bendies???

There will be no more bendies in future. No more of these stupid road hoggers that jam roads and bus facilities in future.

Other than SMRT's poor way of maintenance, I think that it also shows that bendy buses are very difficult to maintain as compare to other kinds of buses. It is time that SMRT to switch to double deckers.

sbst275 SG

I know

even SMRT's mess over the MRT door dwell time is telling. They tell u LRT now more frequent, got CCL lunchtime express

But they cut down the dwell time at every station.. End up very tight.

Gus.chong SG

SMRT will refurbish all and bring in Citaro G and MAN bendy!!!

Gorba eds installed on many bendy, more to come!! After refurbish the bendy sure look new!!!

All? Which buses are you referring to?

Gus.chong SG

Most likely it's back to the haunt of the foul smell in TIB904A with urine-smell fabric seats back in 2010.

Gus.chong SG

I know

even SMRT's mess over the MRT door dwell time is telling. They tell u LRT now more frequent, got CCL lunchtime express

But they cut down the dwell time at every station.. End up very tight.

CCL's peak hour train services had not been officially named as LunchtimeXpress.

laurence82 SG

u go take 188 from Seah Im

esp got one lady driver

reverse the bendy until crack crack sound

sbst275 SG

CCL's peak hour train services had not been officially named as LunchtimeXpress.

during lunchtime CCL freq is 5 mins

Gus.chong SG

during lunchtime CCL freq is 5 mins

Ok.

buses[IN]gapore! SG

Not want to whack on this, but seriously I've begun seeing the downfall of bendy buses..

1) Near stalling of engine: Whenever the bus halts, the engine is like going to stall like that. The clutch engagement is not there anymore.

2) Headlights/ signal: Some dun even have signal lights.

3) Aircon: Air is reek of smell of dust, fungy..

4) Handgrips: Like totally removed alrdy, so is standee allowed? lol

5) EDS: Some of the EDS alrdy died for so long and no one bothers.

Goes to show how much SMRT feels about upkeeping bendy buses actually...

The MK Is and MK IIs that have been refurbished seems ok, except for the pretty loud engine noise in the interior. For the Habit bodied buses, they probably need some refurbishment or cleaning up soon.

Currently from observation EDSes are being upgraded, with the Gorba signage being installed on the malfunctioning or failing flipdot signages buses.

SMB228X SG

All? Which buses are you referring to?

all!!! see BIS also say!!!!

Paem SG

As a commuter I hate bendy.

sbst275 SG

Refurb...

I've ever seen they go weld the pole in the articulator to the ground, instead of using fits and fitting.

Some of the refurb the stopping bell no 'sound' le

Refurb is a sort of one time off incident, the maintenance and upkeeping issues later on may repeat again?

sbst275 SG

Seriously why the heck do you need refurb?

Many of these are all caused by little maintenance of the buses under SMRT era.

Just to wayang saying I've did improvement? I guess it's just like the dwell time, 'improve' le, and later repeat the tight dwell time 1 week later for someone else to complain to say another improvement..

Hitman Chief (Barium) SG

first got ointo a bendy bus somewhere in senokeowoodlands for a job interview ....in 1998.