True, agree with your comments.
SMRT should in fact have equal standards of bus deployments instead
of showing favourtism to some bus services and then showing bias
against other bus services.
For my place along Upper Thomson Road, I notice that services 855
and 980 are always a victim of getting those Nissan UD cameos from
AMDEP, especially the CAC Nissans. Whereas services 167 and 169 are
always spared by AMDEP and normally gets other Lance cameos or
sometimes even get Merz. And I also personally feel that SMRT
should also consider deploying bendies on service 980 on weekdays
as well as Sundays as the passenger demand for service 980 are also
quite high in the evenings.