What svcs should get double decks or Bendies during peak hr?

last SG · 2003-07-05T01:42:41+00:00

How can service 167 uses bendy? (Sembawang Rd End terminal cannot accomodate bendy) Unless you are talking about short-working trips.

tranquilice SG

Let us sign an online petition and submit to NParks, "pressure" NParks to chop all the trees down along 6th Ave, then SBST will has no more reason not to deploy double deckers on service 156.

off_service SG

They can and always say that the current fleet is able to meet the demands and thus, no need for double decks on the service.

tranquilice SG

Please send your feedback to NUS Office of Estates and Developments.

tranquilice SG

Do you think the current fleet of service 156 can cope with the demand?

off_service SG

I had not taken svc 156 for a long time. Well, they always claim it is when people complain abt insufficient buses or need high cap buses.

SBS9818A SG

I take Sv. 156 relatively often and the bus is ONLY packed when people go to school in the morning (6-7am) and return home in the afternoon(3-5pm). And that's on weekdays. On weekends the bus goes express along Bt. Timah Rd due to no passengers. So double-decks would not be feasible on Sv. 156, among other things. Perhaps a new Sv. 156A in the morning could utilize double-decks, it would be from Sengkang to Bt. Timah Rd, passing all the schools.

798 SG

SBS cannot like that meh, so unfair!
Must it be less people on weekend so they have this kind of excuse. Talking about providing us good service! Sad Sad Sad

Originally posted by SBS9818A:

I take Sv. 156 relatively often and the bus is [b]ONLY packed when people go to school in the morning (6-7am) and return home in the afternoon(3-5pm). And that's on weekdays. On weekends the bus goes express along Bt. Timah Rd due to no passengers. So double-decks would not be feasible on Sv. 156, among other things. Perhaps a new Sv. 156A in the morning could utilize double-decks, it would be from Sengkang to Bt. Timah Rd, passing all the schools.[/b]

SBS9810X SG

I know 851 already has bendys,but I would like some more bendys on the route at peak hours as it is loaded with passengers.

TIB1186Z SG

Yes! Better than deploying buses with a large open space like LAnce 245s and 211s

TIB1186Z SG

Yes the frequency of svc 156 during non-peak is on average 20 minutes, not the 10-15 they advertise. It is even worse than svc 852

Airbus330Captain SG

I guess SBST doesnt have enough buses to deploy on certain bus services ? by the way 2 LO 3 axles buses are deployed on 161 today . The licence plates are 9070 and 9173 .

SBS9818A SG

Sv. 156 is a joke, you can wait and wait and wait for 40-odd minutes and TWO Sv. 156 buses come at the same time.

798 SG

Ya loh! The bus always crowded ever since they changed the interchange from serangoon to sengkang.

I'm be very piss off if sbs convert 156 to partly non-aircon Mad

SBS9818A SG

It was partial-aircon in 2001, I clearly remember Alexander-bodied Mk IIs. I agree, ever since Sv. 156 was amended to terminate at Sengkang the frequency is very bad now. I still remember the O405s on Sv. 156, that was 3 years ago.

SBS9816E SG

Talking about the conversion of Partially air-con, there was once Sv 156 was changed to a full air-conditioned service. It was a full Mercedes Benz O.405 fleet. However, b4 the few months of the extension to Sengkang, it started to get some Volvo mk 2 Walter-Alexander as non air-con buses. And during the last 1-2 months, it started to get Mk 2 Walter-Alexander & Duple Metsec Converted Air-con buses for the fleet. After that, the extension was excuted. The fleet was changed to a FULL Volvo Mk 2 Fleet, then a Mk 4 Fleet, which is of the present fleet now.

SBS9818A SG

I remember Sv. 156 was converted to full-aircon in 2000, full CAC O405 fleet from AMDEP. Eventually control was pass over to HGDEP in preparation for extension, thus the Mk III and Mk II fleet, and eventually it was extended and now controlled by BBDEP and HGDEP I believe.

SBS9819Y SG

Excuse me, since when did 139 ever had Superbuses? The double-decks that had been deployed on 139 are the Alexander L- and R-type Atlanteans, and the 2 axle LOs, as far as I can remember. Honestly 139 can cope very well with single decks. That's why after it had been converted to full a/c, DDs disappear from this service.

off_service SG

Yes, service 139 did use Superbuses before. The LO 3 axles were used for a while before they disappeared from the service. This was the same as service 26. The 96 series VOs appeared on service 26 for a brief moment before they disappeared from the fleet as it became a MB-only fleet.

SBS9818A SG

Trial run perhaps. Sv. 139 has to wind through narrow roads at Balestier area and perhaps 3-axle LOs were not suitable. Hao Rui, it is unlikely you wouldn’t have seen them.

TIB1186Z SG

If there were, I think that it would be like that Bendy on svc 804 in 1999. MAybe the LOs had too many close shaves to being stuck at Jin Datoh or Jln Rajah. Jln Bahagia and Kim Keat Road is fine, svc 21s have plenty of DDs.

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