It is the CAC Scania ELBOs that SMRT are phasing out due to the
poor bus conditions, and also now that SMRT are bringing in new and
better buses. Perhaps u want to try out such buses on services
187/852 and see whether they deserves to be taken off from the
roads or not 
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The OAC Scania Striders will still stay on, furthermore TIB562C
and some others had been refurbished too.
You are right. CAC Scania ELBOs are having poor bad conditions.
This was what I experience when I ride svc 187 sometimes.
1) Poor flow of Air-Cond in the afternoon. The bus is having
poor flow of air-con. You can feel it once you enter the bus and
tap your ez-link card. Once you move to the rear, you can't feel
the air anymore.
2) Exit door is further away from the usual bus. I realised that
the exit door was to far from the rear. It takes time for
passengers seating at the rear or back of the bus when the bus was
packed with people to exit the bus.
3) Lack of standing space. The path of the standing space in the
bus to the rear normally 1-2 passengers. Eg. 1 facing to the left,
another facing to the right. This bus can only take only 1 at a
time. I face this before that the bus was full of students around
1pm to 2pm+ in Jurong West. They are having their back-pack at
their back and this will have difficulities of passengers who are
seating at the rear or back trying to squeeze to get out of the
exit door.
4) There were insufficient of Air-con holes in the bus. Usual
bus have 2 holes. This bus only have 1.
This was what I thought when riding service 187 towards
Woodlands.What do you guys think?
