SBS Transit orders 900 buses from Scania (Part 1)

ZYX2005 SG

answer:

when accelerating not much force, wun dislodge wheelchair

BUT when braking oh man. so much force sometimes. so the cushion is face that way.

ZYX2005 SG

some things i dun like bout the new new bus

1) the rattling of the air-con pod cover is driving me insanes.

2) the vibration of the poles n grabpoles give me impression they may drop anytime. scarieee

3) in Australia they shape the contour of the equipment + wheel-well area in front to hold 8 more seats. instead of one long oblong there jho deng.
so why cant we follow australian style. 8033 came close but never shape properly to hold seats.

4) why the EDS never display Chinese one. isn't it China brand?

5) shd use plastic side desto.... the scrolling of word in English is make my eye go wurly wurly.

6) the bus pick up slow de.

7) the wheelchair ramp mannual de.

Cool the door closing is too loud for such a quiet n smooth engine bus.

9) the bus stopping chime so soft. might as well use the bell-ding like Australian bus.

10) the air-con ducting got so many unsightly evenly spaced holes. shd put a nice metal cover over these holes. can better control the air-con coming out using metal chrome slits. (shining chrome so nice nice amke bus more modern)

ZYX

AntiDennisLance SG

To add on: too few seats!!!!

TWS4793 SG

Of course the wheelchair ramp must be manual, or else the fares will go up and people will start [email protected]#*. Laughing

One more disadvantage about the KUBs:

12) The horn of the KUB is too loud! Mad Useful in alerting another kayu driver, but not useful when you go near the bus. I almost got a shock when I was resting to wait for another bus at Sims Place yesterday. Mad

nenepokey SG

i lyk the horn of the Lances. quite cute, in a way

XiaoTaro SG

Originally posted by ZYX2005:

Cool the door closing is too loud for such a quiet n smooth engine bus.

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Some of the lances one even worse... one super giant long beep... especially when u sit near the doors...

SBS3625D SG

The K230 body is sooo conservative. I can’t imagine 500 dull-looking buses.

off_service SG

Even though the EDS is made in China, whether it will show Chinese characters will have to depend on the software that comes along with it. Logical sense would tell us that a bilingual software should cost more than a totally English one (I don't think it's easy to program for Chinese characters to show on EDS).

Furthermore tourists are encouraged to utilize trains while commuting around. So I think it's ok not to show destinations in Chinese. What irk me is the programming. Showing of end destination is not clear at all. Anyone with common sense will put only one destination at a time. Not two without any indication of where the bus will end.

In such a fast paced place like Singapore, I think it would be faster to ask the BC if the bus goes somewhere, isn't it?

off_service SG

Sad truth is we have to make do with them for at least 17 years. Unless they want to rebody some 10 years later which is impossible.

SBS3625D SG

The body dull, never mind, but what I dislike is how wants SBST wants the K230 to look nice, but come up with this body and the EDS. Can't stand the EDS, it's quite an eyesore to me.

Why can't we just have simple but practical bodies if we want to keep costs low? Even the CDGE body on the B9TL looks way better, and it's definitely far better in taste and practicality.

XiaoTaro SG

Also, to add on... the EDS itself mus be of a certain resolution to display chinese characters. The EDS on the scanias are not "fine" (fine in terms of amount of pixels) enough to display chinese characters. Simply compare it to HK's EDS...

Oh, and one more thing... anyone find it very hard to read the eds from far at night due to the super bright LEDs used? i simply see one big glow of orange from far... can only see the svc no when the bus comes closer...

stooper SG

Even daytime I also have that problem. Laughing

Scania SG

Air horn, you should hear the horn of the Airebus Scania coach at Royal Plaza.

Scania N113CRB luver SG

Why not the Merc OHs at the Genting Resorts ? One horn from that bus all the families inside the carpark got startled BADLY. Laughing

tintinspartan SG

Scania K230UB horn is like truck horn Mr. Green .

Scania SG

Eh Hino AK will do.

TIB1049L SG

If only the Scanias looked like this: http://yimsbrother.com/TCM/TCM_wuzhoulongfdg6110hevg.jpg

Source: Yim's Brother

566117 SG

why put the source when it is clearly stated in the URL?

QX5216J SG

its sould like the big brother (the scania trucks..) right?

alleggerita SG

How can be airhorn? Airhorn not allowed in Singapore isn't it? Confused

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