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chocolates-xed SG

why do the 3rd gen of mrt trains not hav advertisements on their exterior eh?

Novawin SG

If they want to do that, they will dirty their car body as well as need to remove their black cover like those C151 train whose body is too dirty after being covered with advertisement cover so these car had to be covered up with white cover.

So I don't think SMRT will do that at anytime.

tintinspartan SG

Well, they could at least remove the black cover and replace it with an advertisement on the exterior.. For Siemens, impossible. It's painted original white. The new C151s will not adorned exterior ads. Crying or Very sad

SMRT SG

Agreed, its much better to have the ads internally rather than externally otherwise it’ll leave lots of “residue remains” once the ads are removed & it won’t be pleasing to one eyes anymore

SMRT 32373238 SG

so after all the 1st gens become refurbished then SMRT will not have any more advertisements on exterior?

tintinspartan SG

Well, at least you know one thing! Companies will have to rely on buses now to advertise as trains could not be used. If you visit Japan's Keio Line, I think you know their bodies are stainless steel and no exterior ads was on them from their start of lifespan. So, bye bye for train exterior advertisment.

P.S: SMRT sometime lazy never remove expired exterior ad from trains like 3075 -3076. Only interior ad removed, exterior no.

P.S again: Is 3024-3023 undergoing refurbishment?

tintinspartan SG

Take 3125-3126 for example. It's body paint was severely damaged that it has to undergo the white cover treatment which went horribly wrong. Now, it's the only 'Ugly Betty' ex-advert train.

I visit SMRT open house and saw 3085-3086 undergoing ad change. It's original body's red strip was completely badly worn out. The train was ugly

chocolates-xed SG

yuck! cool.. 2nd gen also dun hav rights? agreed its so ugly some 1st gen trains look extremely white lehs..

SMRT 32373238 SG

hmmm i tot its in service liao? i rmb taking one refurbished... its either 023/024 or 021/022...

Oceane SG

Ahh...

001/002
003/004
005/006
007/008
021/022
027/028
035/036
083/084

Oh and, 075/076 is still using that Original Source ad. Looks ugly.
107/108 has changed into a Fairprice XTRA ad. Looks cool.

Novawin SG

That's true but it can further damage and dirty the C751 train body painting like they did to old C151 if they do exterior advertisement cover too many times.

jetabt767400 SG

Heehee, actually I like the stainless steel type body, but those bodies can also accept pasted ad and so on, to the least, they can be pasted at small proportions compared to whole car ads like here does.

Novawin SG

Not only this, 3047/3048 body painting was very badly damaged so they are covered with white cover. But I can see some parts of white cover being teared. Next time when you boarding 3047/3048 you can see some parts of white cover being teared below the big windows.

tintinspartan SG

3015 -3016 was thought to have been refurbished but it was undergoing servicing during SMRT Open House Crying or Very sad

SBS9889U SG

Agree some of the cars after the ad being remove it looks very ugly Evil or Very Mad

I believe there would be more advertisers if stations or railway tracks in the city isnt underground. When will LRT have ads Rolling Eyes

jetabt767400 SG

But wouldn't a company with its rolling stocks adless reflect better in the company. Take aircraft for example, very few companies are willing to put ads on it, and only for their own/country's promotion would they paste ads...
Actually, ads not only damage the train itself, also the passengers' reputation (less space in windows to view through) and the image of the company.
I don't like trains with ads. Take my favourite country which is full of trains and you will know why.
Anyways, cheers for adless trains...

SBS3688Y SG

quite a no. of train stations esp the NS-line are underground. also, advertising on the train's exterior can hardly attract passerbys' attention/glance unlike buses as they are running on elevated tracks.
Thats why it makes sense to advertise on the trains' interior instead to attract the max attention.

for planes, its quite difficult for people even those standing at the airport's viewing gallery to have a glance on the plane's ads should there be one. furthermore, the planes are in the sky most of the time. so how to attract public attention to the ads? furthermore as planes generally fly across countries or continents, the ads might not attract the right attention.