Oh,,
We are starting to see the effects in latest tender awards, as
the revised proposal would be Singapore wide for buses.
Would seem that LTA are basically lumping the fleet into 3 groups:
compliant; needs upgrading; replace before 2019 start.
This seems to have replaced the age related existing buses,
where individual years don't seem to be that relevant to fleet
cascades. It appears any euroV bus is likely to be upgraded and
about 2000 euroIV buses. Whats more looking like no more euroIV
awards (modifications will be current euroIV buses where contract
ends after 2019) I am also assuming a couple of hundred euroV will
leave because of contract losses.
Therefore it appears any bus built 2001 -2007 is to be replace
consecutively (Dennis Tridents, B10TLs, B9TL CDGEs) at first. Any
K230UBs or OC500LEs will also be replaced as well.
Difficult to be exact but looking like about so many buses will
be replaced by ULEZ start which is higher than 655 average
replacement per year (9200 buses divided by 14 years). Already have
550 new buses for tender wins in first 5 months of 2017 (details
page 162 of Outstanding requirements thread)
Euro 2:
Euro 3:
Euro 4:
Euro 5:
All other buses.