CW3: Jurong East Int - Larkin/Kota Raya II Ter
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bonus from Kranji Stn is that ppl taking MRT wil have transfer rebate..
if from JB side, can pay in RM, transfer rebate also no use
haha.. nowadays, on SG side both directions, i dont queue anymore, just exit the escalator and walk by the road side those long queues so rroublesome, esp JB towards SG side -
From JB side I actually take CW... 10 sen cheaper ever since SBST had the fare revision. And you're right.. the transfer rebate no use if you're paying in RMs. You save about 50% in fare rather than 25 cents.
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you can pay RM 1.60 on CW1 at Kranji.Originally posted by 105090:bonus from Kranji Stn is that ppl taking MRT wil have transfer rebate..
if from JB side, can pay in RM, transfer rebate also no use
haha.. nowadays, on SG side both directions, i dont queue anymore, just exit the escalator and walk by the road side those long queues so rroublesome, esp JB towards SG side -
Pay RM on Singapore side? Wah.. no wonder people rushing for that bus...Originally posted by PJ_Quek:you can pay RM 1.60 on CW1 at Kranji. -
Ha.hah...Originally posted by 105090:BINGO!! i think i saw this fella before.. but i think my version is a malay fella.. last time i was at Kranji, then this guy was shouting Larkin! Larkin! Johor! Johor! Yellow Bus!! and his hand was "sweeping" the customers towards his bus. then the SBS officer stand there and watch becos theres no 170 to sweep passengers into and a shiny coach-type CW1 arrived.
after a while the SBS officer taught the HI guy some chinese words "Huang She!" Huang She! (yellow colour) and some chinese words to promote CW1 after the HI fella treat the SBS fella one banana
dun think this fella is someone in authority la.. maybe just a volunteer or kaypoh promoting for HI or some kopi-boy hired by HI staff to promote CW services..
hate to say this.. but i noticed most people who take CW1/2 are mostly/mainly malaysians and singaporeans for 170.. can verify
what a comical incident you saw...
So SBST and CW1 became friend friend because of one banana? Ha..haa... -
Huh?! Serious ah? How come I dunno..? Wah... no wonder lah..Originally posted by PhyrePhox:Pay RM on Singapore side? Wah.. no wonder people rushing for that bus... -
Causeway Link only accept RM currency.Originally posted by purplecrazed:Huh?! Serious ah? How come I dunno..? Wah... no wonder lah.. -
Originally posted by hannwei:Handal Indah has a number of good drivers. The best I found so far is a Malay driving a CW1. He usually wore a long-sleeve shirt inside his short-sleeve uniform. Just that it also has a few very bad CW3 drivers.
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Originally posted by purplecrazed:2 days ago, I just noticed this long-sleeved Malay driver you're talkin abt...
Why he always wear long sleeve inside with the yellow uniform outside?
He's cold or he wants his arms to be evenly-coloured? Hahaa.. 'Coz I know some female drivers will always put on a long sleeve cardigan to avoid their arms from having 2 different colours.. you know, the upper arm is fair but the rest of the hands are tanned from the sun... -
Not true... Causeway Link has always been taking in SGD$$ from S'pore side.Originally posted by Apex-LW'21:Causeway Link only accept RM currency.
CW3 take in SGD3, and not RM6, Ok? -
Are you sure we're talking abt the same guy? No lah... the one I noticed looks very Chinese to me eventhough he's tanned skin... and he spoke in Mandarin to some chinese gals, auntie & uncle while interacting with the crowd at JE booth.Originally posted by 105090:BINGO!! i think i saw this fella before.. but i think my version is a malay fella.. last time i was at Kranji, then this guy was shouting Larkin! Larkin! Johor! Johor! Yellow Bus!! and his hand was "sweeping" the customers towards his bus. then the SBS officer stand there and watch becos theres no 170 to sweep passengers into and a shiny coach-type CW1 arrived.
after a while the SBS officer taught the HI guy some chinese words "Huang She!" Huang She! (yellow colour) and some chinese words to promote CW1 after the HI fella treat the SBS fella one banana
dun think this fella is someone in authority la.. maybe just a volunteer or kaypoh promoting for HI or some kopi-boy hired by HI staff to promote CW services..
Anyway, one of the Malay HI staff at Gelang Patah, the blue-uniformed, BIG-sized fella that looks like a "mamak" (Indian muslim)... well... he can speak Mandarin!
There was once a chinese girl was speaking to her friend in mandarin that she dare not approach him for enquiries because she can't speak Malay well and all of a sudden he answered "Ni yao qu na li?" (Where you want to go?) We were all so shocked 'coz he spoke perfect Mandarin.
Yeah, so betta not rain down curses on HI in front of the Malay staff in chinese language. You'll never hear him speak Mandarin except when the need arises but he understands everything.. -
Alamak! The inspector must be so paiseh... haa..haaah....Originally posted by 105090:aiya! Handah Indah people all so funny
Bout the drivers on HI buses, yeah.. i saw many malay drivers, but last week on sv22 to Permas Jaya, i board the bus with a chinese man driving.. then at Stulang Laut, have a ticket inspector come up.. chinese young man looking like some hooligan then when the bus crosses the high high bridge, he saw another HI bus charging up, assuming its the next sv22, the inspector started to abuse and scold the driver hahaha!
then the bus behind turn left and the driver *sigh*
still, this thursday (yesterday) saw a CW3 opp City Square, with NO passengers, bout 3pm+ how come? i tot the buses loop at kota raya but not terminate?
(how come this forum has no emoticon for a face with its tongue sticking out?)
As to why CW3 was opp City Square, again... we all know Causeway Link buses have its occasional surprises and madness.
Like this morning, Tony wasn't around to drive the 0640 JE-bound CW3 from GP. Dunno what happen to him.. maybe off-day or on leave or MC... sigh...
So there was no replacement lor... and all his regular passengers ended up taking the 0710 bus... but good thing HI provided TWO buses, or else there'd be no breathing space. So this morning, 2 buses of CW3 arrived at Jurong East at the same time... -
So I know that Causeway Link accepts SGD & RM currencies.Originally posted by purplecrazed:Not true... Causeway Link has always been taking in SGD$$ from S'pore side.
CW3 take in SGD3, and not RM6, Ok? -
Here:Originally posted by purplecrazed:(how come this forum has no emoticon for a face with its tongue sticking out?)
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i want the one with the tongue sticking out sideway...Originally posted by kc_leung:Here: -
CW666
funny story, a motorcycle was blocking the bus....riding in the middle...the bus overtook and then the motor tried to give chase...but failed...then near the community area where got the kampungs, the motor overtook and dismounted..he bang on the door and he board it and quarreled with the driver...demanding the driver's id number.....everyone stared....my parents and i just laughed....
return journey
the driver made a detour at some housing area and alighted...he passed to the security guards some money and a piece of paper (i think he go buy numbers)...den he carried on with the journey....
humph....Singapore won't allow all this... -
why motorcyclist so angry for? tak faham lah...Originally posted by muziq bus:CW666
funny story, a motorcycle was blocking the bus....riding in the middle...the bus overtook and then the motor tried to give chase...but failed...then near the community area where got the kampungs, the motor overtook and dismounted..he bang on the door and he board it and quarreled with the driver...demanding the driver's id number.....everyone stared....my parents and i just laughed.... -
Yah, only in m'sia we have bus drivers making detours for their own personal interest & agenda.Originally posted by muziq bus:CW666
the driver made a detour at some housing area and alighted...he passed to the security guards some money and a piece of paper (i think he go buy numbers)...den he carried on with the journey....
humph....Singapore won't allow all this...
There was once a CW3 drove past Bkt Indah all the way to Tmn Tan Sri Yacob. I thought it was a new route again... then we realise he just wanted to drop his colleague off. -
a bit wrong there.. buses in Boon Lay Jurong Industrial estate buses like 182 182 193 even better! can forget to let people alight, park halfway along the road and sleep (empty bus), and once, a driver parked his bus along a bus stop in the afternoon, cross the road to kopitiam and tah pao Chap Chai PengOriginally posted by purplecrazed:Yah, only in m'sia we have bus drivers making detours for their own personal interest & agenda.
but yeah.. JB drivers have more "exciting programmes" lined up for passengers -
Actually, i consider it tolerable as long as it does not result in any noticable delays on the trip overall for the passengers.
I've even seen a (fare paying) passenger benefitting from such detours when a CW2 driver modified his route to Larkin after leaving the Causeway to pass along Menera Tower to drop off an off-duty driver. This passenger who boarded @ Causeway took advantage of the situation by alighting @ Menara too ! Saved quite some walking compared to if alighting along Wong Ah Fook etc.
If managed properly therefore can be a win-win situation for the passengers too as they then get a more personalised & tailored level of service (like on the CityLink minibuses here) eventhough they not supposed to be taking a 'premier' service & paying the higher fares !
So they do 'think out of the box' there afterall !
In Singapore of course there's ever such happenings too among the public bus operators like SJE (no detours seen but they do pickup & alight 'known people' like off-duty drivers as they like) or SBST, although here seems the passengers don't seem to know how to take advantage of such situations ! People here seems too 'rigid' & inflexible in their thinking since that appears to be how they are 'conditioned' here, unfortunately. Only on SBST 170 here it seems that lately they have shown some 'flexibility' by making unannounced detours sometimes @ Woodlands area. They have to 'learn' otherwise they'll ultimately lose out.Originally posted by purplecrazed:Yah, only in m'sia we have bus drivers making detours for their own personal interest & agenda.
There was once a CW3 drove past Bkt Indah all the way to Tmn Tan Sri Yacob. I thought it was a new route again... then we realise he just wanted to drop his colleague off. -
It's tolerable as long as schedules & overall journey times for the passengers are not noticibly affected.
People here have to learn to be more flexible & less rigid & discover that ultimately it's still possible to maintain an overall acceptable service level as long as those doing it 'manage it well', which they have to..before they're given the kick on their backside for doing so.Originally posted by 105090:a bit wrong there.. buses in Boon Lay Jurong Industrial estate buses like 182 182 193 even better! can forget to let people alight, park halfway along the road and sleep (empty bus), and once, a driver parked his bus along a bus stop in the afternoon, cross the road to kopitiam and tah pao Chap Chai Peng
but yeah.. JB drivers have more "exciting programmes" lined up for passengers -
Oh, I found out that the un-uniformed HI staff - the tall, Chinese man whom I mentioned aboutÂ… well, his name is Johnny Low. Someone showed me his name card. His designation is Station Manager. Yup.
Anyway, yesterday eveningÂ… the tall, big-sized, blue-uniformed Malay guy stationed at GP went crazy. He said nasty things to us!
Our bus reached GP at around 1915. The Kotaraya-bound bus was already there so we boarded it. Time went by slowly as we sat inside the bus waiting for it to move. The driver was nowhere to be found. 30mins later, my patience was wearing thin. The man sitting next to me started to dial Ms. Fang’s number (Ms. Fang must be someone at management level in HI ‘coz her number was given to us by the big-sized mamak the evening before) Anyway, her phone was diverted to voice mail so he left a polite message to say that this certainly wasn’t a “smiling bus”….
I asked those other HI guys where’s the driver. They said dunno… he went to “buka puasa”… Around 1950, the next bus from JE arrived. And of course, our bus became very full and many passengers had to stand.
The next thing we know, this big-sized mamak fella came to our bus and he shouted at us these words:
“AH, KAMU SEMUA KENA BERDIRI DALAM BAS NI BUKAN SALAH KAMI DAN BUKAN SALAH OFFICE, YA?! INI SEMUA PASAL ORANG BKT INDAH-TMN PERLING YANG PALING BANYAK SUKA COMPLAIN.. SAMPAI DRIVER PUN DAH TAK NAK BAWA BAS.... SEBAB KAMU SEMUA TAK FAHAM MASALAH KAMI… ITULAH JADI MACAM NI..”
So heÂ’s saying we ourselves are to be blamed for the lousy service weÂ’re getting. He meant that we deserve it because we complaint too much until the drivers also got fed-up and try to avoid driving the Kotaraya-GP CW3 because they donÂ’t like Bkt Indah-Tmn Perling passengers. CÂ’mon, WHAT NONSENSE IS THIS??!!!
Then this morning I heard from another passenger who went back at a later time that the mamak fella was in the Kotaraya-bound bus together with all the Bkt Indah-Tmn Perling passengers as he was already knocking off at that time. He sat in the bus puffing his cigarette away and he said this, "KAU ORANG INGAT KAU BAYAR 3 DOLLAR BANYAK BESAR KE HAH? 3 DOLLAR JE.. BUKANNYA 3 RIBU… KAU ORANG INGAT KAU ORANG TU APA?”
Then never mind, at the roundabout, a passenger rang the bell but the driver didn’t stop.. he just kept on driving the whole roundabout… the passenger rang the bell again after he went one round but he still refused to stop. Then the mamak said “HUH, TENGOK TU… MUKA MASAM… MACAM IDIOT!”
I say HI should get rid of this staff! He's got attitude problem. -
Reading the post already makes me mad. He's giving me a very bad impression of Malaysians. As if the drivers are the masters and we are the slaves. Without 3 bucks, there won't be 3 thousand dollars.
I think he is the idiot.
Kecil-kecil tak nak mampos, dah besar, menyusahkan orang.... -
Originally posted by purplecrazed:
IMO,These peoples should join our Taxi Companies as a Cabbies,Similiar attitudes
Oh, I found out that the un-uniformed HI staff - the tall, Chinese man whom I mentioned aboutÂ… well, his name is Johnny Low. Someone showed me his name card. His designation is Station Manager. Yup.
Anyway, yesterday eveningÂ… the tall, big-sized, blue-uniformed Malay guy stationed at GP went crazy. He said nasty things to us!
Our bus reached GP at around 1915. The Kotaraya-bound bus was already there so we boarded it. Time went by slowly as we sat inside the bus waiting for it to move. The driver was nowhere to be found. 30mins later, my patience was wearing thin. The man sitting next to me started to dial Ms. Fang’s number (Ms. Fang must be someone at management level in HI ‘coz her number was given to us by the big-sized mamak the evening before) Anyway, her phone was diverted to voice mail so he left a polite message to say that this certainly wasn’t a “smiling bus”….
I asked those other HI guys where’s the driver. They said dunno… he went to “buka puasa”… Around 1950, the next bus from JE arrived. And of course, our bus became very full and many passengers had to stand.
The next thing we know, this big-sized mamak fella came to our bus and he shouted at us these words:
“AH, KAMU SEMUA KENA BERDIRI DALAM BAS NI BUKAN SALAH KAMI DAN BUKAN SALAH OFFICE, YA?! INI SEMUA PASAL ORANG BKT INDAH-TMN PERLING YANG PALING BANYAK SUKA COMPLAIN.. SAMPAI DRIVER PUN DAH TAK NAK BAWA BAS.... SEBAB KAMU SEMUA TAK FAHAM MASALAH KAMI… ITULAH JADI MACAM NI..”
So heÂ’s saying we ourselves are to be blamed for the lousy service weÂ’re getting. He meant that we deserve it because we complaint too much until the drivers also got fed-up and try to avoid driving the Kotaraya-GP CW3 because they donÂ’t like Bkt Indah-Tmn Perling passengers. CÂ’mon, WHAT NONSENSE IS THIS??!!!
Then this morning I heard from another passenger who went back at a later time that the mamak fella was in the Kotaraya-bound bus together with all the Bkt Indah-Tmn Perling passengers as he was already knocking off at that time. [b]He sat in the bus puffing his cigarette away and he said this, "KAU ORANG INGAT KAU BAYAR 3 DOLLAR BANYAK BESAR KE HAH? 3 DOLLAR JE.. BUKANNYA 3 RIBU… KAU ORANG INGAT KAU ORANG TU APA?”
Then never mind, at the roundabout, a passenger rang the bell but the driver didn’t stop.. he just kept on driving the whole roundabout… the passenger rang the bell again after he went one round but he still refused to stop. Then the mamak said “HUH, TENGOK TU… MUKA MASAM… MACAM IDIOT!”
I say HI should get rid of this staff! He's got attitude problem.[/b]
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I understand sometimes it gets too overwhelming to get all these complains but that's not the way for them to treat the passengers.. Don't they have a transport worker's union of some sort to feedback to?