smrt buses like to put their newer buses on feeders probably cos
their reach in the downtown area is not as wide as sbst thus they
might as well save it on 'entertaining' their own turf's residents
with new buses.
sbst have the habit, imo, of showing off their new buses on
"prominent" or high load svcs, like striders making their debut on
16 & 67, VSOs on woodlands svcs & 133, Volvo B10BLE-CNG
buses on 105.
actually smrt buses does/did put some of their newer 1148+ &
12xx buses on trunk services (cameo/ wkend cameo or perm), for
example 67, 169, 180, 187, 188, 190, 700, 851, 960, 963 & 969,
especially 180, 963 & 969.
also, Mk4 striders are destined to be the replacement for Mk3's for
its 170 JB-bound svc. thus do expect some tapering of their
deployment significance gradually throughtout the next few years.
thus, i expect Mk4 strider perms on feeder svcs (especially bbdep
areas like jurong east, boon lay, clementi, buona vista) will
become more common in the future.
