I saw two unregistered Mercedes OC500LE buses being driven along
Woodlands Avenue 9 (near Republic Polytechnic) from the direction
of Woodlands Regional Centre towards Woodlands Depot this evening.
The front LED of both buses were displaying the SMRT logo,
alongside the words "SMRT BUSES" (trying to copy what SBS Transit
did to their LEDs - putting logos in them instead of plain words?),
while the rear LED displayed the SMRT logo. As mentioned, they were
unregistered, and hence carried no license plates, but blue trade
plates instead. The seats and paneling on board the bus are still
wrapped in plastic sheets.
Telling us that they will not lose out to SBST in the aesthetic
department - just plain "SMRT BUSES" seems so 90's as compared to
what the SBST's Cool-Air EDSes can do.
