(Topic title inspired by something too adult to post here -
underaged people around, you see...
)
Well, I was inspired by the bendy 177 thread to create this one:
post your sightings of buses with really weird EDSes, be it weirdo
destinations, wrong numbers, or downright funkiness.
For me, apart from the "Volgren Bendy with 22 in Kranji Depot"
sighting...
- I was boarding this route 969 bus at Tampines Interchange a few
years ago, and the EDS initially read "969 PULAU TEKONG"
. The Pulau Tekong
wording seemed to be overlaid with the correct route details
underneath. One passenger informed the driver, who tried (but
failed) to correct it. Another passenger told the driver of the
error later, and this time, he corrected it (I was at the back of a
long queue, which is why I witnessed it all). A fellow passenger in
front of me remarked something about displaying Jarkata or
something
.
- I once encountered this route 965 bus at Yishun displaying, if I
remember correctly, "965 Yio Chu Kang"
. I was
one of the passengers who boarded it, and one of the passengers
asked about that. It seemed that the driver quickly corrected it
later.
- This evening I saw a Volgren Bendy on route 913, and the LED had
some kind of... "flickering" or "static" effect
.
- SBS Transit buses for a change - this was back when SBS 2779A
(the Volvo MK IV with the EDS) was a perm bus on route 80. I
spotted that bus while I was waiting for another bus outside City
Hall station, but it's EDS was like not displaying any good
information. Instead, it was like kind of "dancing" and
"flickering". Much of the EDS was lighted, and it could flicker and
"dance" every now and then. I immediately knew that was a route 80
bus, as only route 80 at that time used that bus regularly. When
the bus came to that stop, I told the driver that the EDS is
spoilt, and he acknowledged the problem and says he knew about
it.
- Now for the way back machine - back when the then-TIBS' old DAF
buses (which has a different kind of EDS to the one we know and see
today - there was "indiviualised" panels) started to run on routes
other than 950, 951, and 952, the EDS could look "incomplete" much
of the time. I still remember sharing my first trip on this bus
here before on route 852, and one of the things I observed was that
the EDS displayed mostly nonsense except the panels where the
numbers go - that did display "852" properly.
So do you have any other encounters of weirdo EDSes? SBS Transit
and SMRT buses are welcome, and especially post photos - someone
posted a now-lost photo of an SMRT bus displaying "222"
.