SMRT Bus Services that deserves & doesn't deserve bendies

• icydevilvic88

  5 Dec 04, 10:45

  I dunno whether has this topic been started or not so i just posted it here..
  
  I notice that some SMRT bus services deserve bendies but actually they don't have bendy buses. 1 of them is 171. 171's journey can be very long, it passes thru orchard area and sometimes the MB O405 & Dennis Lance buses can be packed full of people especially around the Far East Plaza that area. Svc 190 also deserves full bendies cos even with bendies, it can be also packed full of people. I'm not so sure of whether the rest of SMRT bus service do/don't deserve bendies but i will update if i noe more abt it. Anyone of you here have different views of it can share it over here. Thanks!
  
  From my personal point of view:
  Svcs that deserves bendy buses: (some svc i never take it b4)
  106
  167
  171
  176
  180
  184
  187
  188
  190
  61
  67
  700/700A
  75
  851
  854
  855
  960 (Fully bendy buses)
  963
  985
  300
  302
  307
  800
  804
  811
  812
  900
  903
  911
  912
  913
  920
  
  Svcs that DON'T deserves bendy buses: (some svc i never take it b4)
  172
  175
  177
  178
  77
  921
  925
  926
  927
  
  Svc that i'm not sure of cos i never take these svcs b4:
  169
  189
  852
  853
  856
  857
  858
  859 (Basically all the 85x svcs i never take b4 except 854)
  950
  961
  962
  964
  965
  966
  969
  970
  981
  945
  947 (Saw a bendy bus serving on 947 route yesterday @ BBK Interchange, this case very rare.. I was shocked when i see tat Mercedes Benz O405G Hispano Pininfarina bus when i was about to walk in towards BBK Interchange)
  
• delonchew

  5 Dec 04, 11:14

  Not again.
• SBS9845X

  5 Dec 04, 11:19

  I think 307 cant have bendies because of the narrow teck whye roads.
• Volvo Olympian

  5 Dec 04, 12:02

  Originally posted by icydevilvic88:
  I dunno whether has this topic been started or not so i just posted it here..
  
  I notice that some SMRT bus services deserve bendies but actually they don't have bendy buses. 1 of them is 171. 171's journey can be very long, it passes thru orchard area and sometimes the MB O405 & Dennis Lance buses can be packed full of people especially around the Far East Plaza that area. Svc 190 also deserves full bendies cos even with bendies, it can be also packed full of people. I'm not so sure of whether the rest of SMRT bus service do/don't deserve bendies but i will update if i noe more abt it. Anyone of you here have different views of it can share it over here. Thanks!
  
  [b]From my personal point of view:
  Svcs that deserves bendy buses: (some svc i never take it b4)
  106
  167
  171
  176
  180
  184
  187
  188
  190
  61
  67
  700/700A
  75
  851
  854
  855
  960 (Fully bendy buses)
  963
  985
  300
  302
  307
  800
  804
  811
  812
  900
  903
  911
  912
  913
  920
  
  Svcs that DON'T deserves bendy buses: (some svc i never take it b4)
  172
  175
  177
  178
  77
  921
  925
  926
  927
  
  Svc that i'm not sure of cos i never take these svcs b4:
  169
  189
  852
  853
  856
  857
  858
  859 (Basically all the 85x svcs i never take b4 except 854)
  950
  961
  962
  964
  965
  966
  969
  970
  981
  945
  947 (Saw a bendy bus serving on 947 route yesterday @ BBK Interchange, this case very rare.. I was shocked when i see tat Mercedes Benz O405G Hispano Pininfarina bus when i was about to walk in towards BBK Interchange)
  [/b]

  Svc. 172 used bendy oso. TIB838H
• Acx1688

  5 Dec 04, 13:10

  Svc172 uses Bendy coz it's serving Tengah AB and another army unit along Choa Chu Kang Rd in addition of being a partial feeder svc for CCK estate...
  
  Sv106 should be converted to half Bendy
  
  Sv700[A] could add another Bendy to it's fleet...
• leeJZ

  5 Dec 04, 13:38

  errr why does 855 985 need bendies??
  
  857 962 969 all do need bendies.
• iveco

  5 Dec 04, 15:04

  What about 961? It is quite a long route. 858 too, if CGA permits.
• icydevilvic88

  5 Dec 04, 16:38

  Originally posted by leeJZ:

  errr why does 855 985 need bendies??
  
  857 962 969 all do need bendies.

  to be frank, these 2 services i never take it b4. 985 & 855 are cos of journey very long, but as for whether a lot of passengers will board these 2 service i do not know cos i never take any of the 2 svcs for a complete journey b4.. this is onli my prediction. If any of you guys here know more abt 985 & 855 can pls tell mi cos i dun really know these 2 svcs well.
• icydevilvic88

  5 Dec 04, 16:43

  Originally posted by Volvo Olympian:

  Svc. 172 used bendy oso. TIB838H

  I did saw that 1 before when i was in svc 172 on the way to Boon Lay, along the junction of Choa Chu Kang Road & Lim Chu Kang Road that side, if i remembered correctly. That was a few years ago so i can't remember it very well..
• icydevilvic88

  5 Dec 04, 16:44

  Originally posted by icydevilvic88:

  I did saw 1 bendy bus on 172 before (forgot the REGO le..) when i was in svc 172 on the way to Boon Lay, along the junction of Choa Chu Kang Road & Lim Chu Kang Road that side, if i remembered correctly. That was a few years ago so i can't remember it very well..

• PJ_Quek

  5 Dec 04, 16:55

  Originally posted by icydevilvic88:

  to be frank, these 2 services i never take it b4. 985 & 855 are cos of journey very long, but as for whether a lot of passengers will board these 2 service i do not know cos i never take any of the 2 svcs for a complete journey b4.. this is onli my prediction. If any of you guys here know more abt 985 & 855 can pls tell mi cos i dun really know these 2 svcs well.

  985 I think no need bendies, seldom see a crowded 985. Bendies can be deployed on 855 during weekdays' peak hours, to serve the people between Upp Thomson, Yishun, Bukit Merah and HBF, mainly the working people.
• icydevilvic88

  5 Dec 04, 17:04

  Originally posted by iveco:

  What about 961? It is quite a long route. 858 too, if CGA permits.

  Svc 961 route (according to my Translink Guide 2004) is also very long. I notice that Svc 961 don't deploy those very good buses.. Eg of buses deployed on tat svc are those Scania(common), UDs (sometimes) & Old Mercedes Benz O405 buses if u r lucky to board on it.
  
  As for svc 858, i dun understand y CGA dun allows bendy buses to enter it. Can anyone tell mi why is this so? Thanks
• Acx1688

  5 Dec 04, 18:55

  Originally posted by leeJZ:

  errr why does 855 985 need bendies??
  
  857 962 969 all do need bendies.

  857 is partial Bendy only on weekends & PHs
  969 is bendy during peak hrs & on wkends & PHs
• SBS9816E

  5 Dec 04, 19:28

  Look. I dun understand whyu guys wanna talk why this service or that servive deserves / doesn't deserve bendies. Bus operators themself will know what and what not to do to their services. So pls, do not take very strong feelings towards ur opinions about it. In fact, I feel that it's worthless to mention all these things.
• delonchew

  5 Dec 04, 20:06

  Originally posted by SBS9816E:

  Look. I dun understand whyu guys wanna talk why this service or that servive deserves / doesn't deserve bendies. Bus operators themself will know what and what not to do to their services. So pls, do not take very strong feelings towards ur opinions about it. In fact, I feel that it's worthless to mention all these things.

  *points to the 2nd post of this thread*
• service_238

  5 Dec 04, 22:00

  like i said once i said a thousand times.
  
  every bus company have its constraints as to put high cap or low cap buses onto each and every service.
  
  if u get full SD fleet, chances are freq is better and vice versa. unless high demand despite being DD fleet then freq can get better.
  
  examples are 23 24 27 65 100 147
  
  thread closed.