Withdrawal of some Premium and CS services

SBS877M SG

Starting next Monday, Premium 537 & 540 will be withdrawn.

At the same time, City Shopper 551, 575, 577 & 580 will be withdrawn too.

Service 816 (CT28) will be converted to a festive season service from that day too.

These withdrawals and conversion are supposedly due to low demand.

Guys...what do you think? Air your views here

jayh272416 SG

580 ok. I always see nobody one. The rest i dunno cuz i dun see them.

Rk 2010 SG

i do think that for service 580, it should be withdrawn as it has less people taking that bus. but for CT28's conversion, it is a little inconvinient as people from clementi who want to go to Chinatown will have to take another the bus like 166 and 147.

SBS2695H SG

With some cityshopper services withdrawn, there will be extra buses and they can be given to the "crying" services which will help other services. But I must say that SBST has introduced the Premium and Cityshopper Services as an effort to discourage people from driving while SMRT did nothing about their crying services like 980 and kept focusing on its trains.

sbst275 SG

Nah, they just go back to parent svs

SBS2695H SG

Nah, they just go back to parent svs

Why is it neccecary bringing them back to their parent services when there are other services that needs the extra buses more? However for 551 the extra buses can be given to 27 as 27 needs those buses. But for 575 the extra buses can be anytime given to Service 36 which needs it more than its parent Service 9.

sbst275 SG

Then those buses would be off from S shift and you would be lagi longer queue for Sv 27

service_238 SG

Once upon a time the 3 buses from 575 came from Service 9. Since they are withdrawn they should go back to service 9. End of Story

-beehoon SG

maybe they can switch to making 551,575,577 operational on wkends onli? except 580 la. which i oways see it pass by orchard w/o any pax onboard. wonder if those living in e above areas will feedback to sbst nt. pity those hu reli nid these svcs.

thankful 581 still ard.

Simple_boi SG

Consider the demand for svc9 also please.

SBS2695H SG

Consider the demand for svc9 also please.

Since 575 has 3 buses, maybe 1 give to 9 and 2 give to 36?

SBS9889U SG

Perhaps 551, 577 and CT28 should be converted into weekend service instead.

service_238 SG

Since 575 has 3 buses, maybe 1 give to 9 and 2 give to 36?

You just never listen to what i said earlier. Once upon a time the 3 S575 buses belong to S9. They operated as 2 split shifts & 1 full day. Then they went over to S575 with 2 doing T shift and 1 on full day. There was a net reduction of 1 bus during PM peak as 1 of the S575 buses does not do S9 during PM peak. However it was able to cope with the loading. Now, when S575 is withdrawn, all 3 buses should go back to S9. You simply underestimate how crowded S9 can get during AM Peak.

Simple_boi SG

I know exactly the demand since i frequent passenger at simei. haha.

sinicker SG

they should go back the parent services since that's where they came from.

dont act smart want redeploy here there please.

azharjj SG

Ya, CS svcs got its parent svc... so, they will go back there

SBS2695H SG

Have anyone thought of another possible reason for withdrawal is the shortage of BCs other than very low demand?

sinicker SG

Have anyone thought of another possible reason for withdrawal is the shortage of BCs other than very low demand?

nope.

SBS8033D SG

thankful 581 still ard.

can put to a Suntec Fair Day service

SBS8033D SG

then should put the parent service to 196

196 can cope peaks espicially the 196e can cope for the normal 196.