The last days and months of bendy buses

A22 fan SG

Agreed..854 needs more high capacity buses and they have a mix of DDs and bendies with O405Gs majority.

array88 SG

When downline opens later this month service 61 might get lesser passengers as this routes heavily duplicates dtl from eunos to city area. More O405Gs are on verge of retiring and a portion of A24s will be or already transferred to SBSt for seletar package.

I don't think 61's main loading is between Eunos and city... Loading on the west side seems to be stronger.

carbikebus SG

I don't think 61's main loading is between Eunos and city... Loading on the west side seems to be stronger.

Weekdays morning Bt Batok to Ngee Ann super packed..Remember last time when i worked for SMRT i tio S shift Habit,Bt Batok 4th bus stops already packed like sardines

BusAnalayzer SG

I don't think 61's main loading is between Eunos and city... Loading on the west side seems to be stronger.

61's loading is high and low along its route.

Bukit Batok - Ngee Ann (high - DD worthy)

Clementi Rd - Harbourfront (loading is lost especially with removal of flats along Commonwealth Dr/Tanglin Halt, the bus passes the winding route taking no pax. Rest route depends on svc 93, 100 arrival times)

Harboufront - Outram (loading very much depends on 143, 166 arrival times)

Bugis - UBI (this is where loading can again be DD worthy during peak hours).

Hence, IMO makes absolute sense to split 61 into two to cater to the high loading sectors.

BusAnalayzer SG

You want to see o405G bendy - go to 854 . Even if all the other services don't have it I can guarantee u that 854 will have it .

From what I observed from the o405 retirement, 854 was still using o405 while the other services are using A22 .

Am not surprised if 854 is getting all the retired o405g fleet.

854 is unpredictable. In between, they were getting maximum A95s and then suddenly old bendies popped up again.

A22 fan SG

Its BCM style. The deployers take turns for DDs and bendies on this service often. Rare to see service 857 deployed with bendies nowadays too.

randomguy10 SG

How come A24 being transferred to SBST? LTA trying the use of Bendy buses for the Seletar bus package ah... I thot both SBST and LTA were against those buses?

But if SBST is really taking in MAN A24s for use at seletar, I think LTA should buy more A24s. Atleast 40-60 units to support CGA and feeder services for selected towns (more than just Woodlands/CCK.) 806 was defintiely doing better with bendy. I saw a few DD plying 806 before... lower deck so packed, upper deck sparsely populated.

I guess the MAN A24s in Seletar bus package can be used for the Yishun Feeders and CGA Service 24.

iveco SG

Should try out A24 on Route 298.

BusAnalayzer SG

Should try out A24 on Route 298.

Why 298? A24s should be reserved for CGA services.

A22 fan SG

If CGA services uses bendies GA should get a small number of them as well. It depends on LTA right now.

AntiDennisLance SG

I have a feeling LTA will buy more WAB artics. It makes no sense to have the new Yishun Interchange in 2019 having so many artic parking spaces and artic friendly berths just to award Seletar to SBST which has 0 native artics, and there are not enough A24's to go around (Woodlands feeders/intratowns and 184 still needing them and 176/188 hogging them for unknown reasons). By 2019, the O405G's in the non-Seletar Yishun services (854, 856 and much lesser extent 857) would have retired by then as well.

carbikebus SG

Yishun i think only less than 6 bendy lots.

AntiDennisLance SG

Yishun i think only less than 6 bendy lots.

Got 13 parking and 4 berths, if this image/plan is anything to go by: http://i.imgur.com/6rqIrrr.png

lemon1974 SG

Got 13 parking and 4 berths, if this image/plan is anything to go by: http://i.imgur.com/6rqIrrr.png

dun worry, they can easily convert the bendies parking lots into normal 12M and then some buses can park parallel in front of these lots..

or if there is space, they can do back to back parking on these bendies lot for those 12M buses..

carbikebus SG

Quite cramped for int with more than 21 svc

SMB1368T SG

Will some svcs not go inside like the BP case?

carbikebus SG

Got a feeling 1-2 svc won’t terminating there.859 is one of the candidate.

iveco SG

Got a feeling 1-2 svc won’t terminating there.859 is one of the candidate.

Isn't 859 a loop service?

Come to think of it, 852 and 859 can be merged.

SBS8676Z SG

You want to see o405G bendy - go to 854 . Even if all the other services don't have it I can guarantee u that 854 will have it .

From what I observed from the o405 retirement, 854 was still using o405 while the other services are using A22 .

Am not surprised if 854 is getting all the retired o405g fleet.

Frankly speaking, I will strongly hope that the remaining old bendies (1148 onwards) from AMDEP go over to KJDEP for 184/300/302 fleet once Yishun services go over to Seletar. AMDEP doesn't really need the bendies anymore for their remaining services by then.

I really hate the way SMRT still mass deploy the NWAB bendies to 854 compare to most other WAB trunks that are using majority DDs. I will want SMRT to concentrate putting in more WAB DDs on 854 to replace every single old bendy especially during weekday peak hours.

But 1 good thing I notice about 854 fleet is that night time usually left with only WAB fleets running, all the NWAB bendies seems to operate on S-shifts only. For weekends, the DDs normally appear twice to 3x the number of NWAB bendies seen.

There are still several NWAB bendies running on Yishun feeders btw.

SBS8676Z SG

Why?

61 stopped using bendies (maybe got 1 or 2) ever since it was declared WAB in 2012.

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