SBST planning to install LED on buses
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Today I read the ST newspaper and saw it
Extract(The Straits Times Home Paper Page 9 Forum):
I Refer to the letter, "SMRT buses help us know when to alight" (ST Dec 12), by Ms Lye Su-Min.
We are pleased to inform Ms Lye that SBS Transit is in the midst of developing a system for onboard bus destination signs which will alert commuters to approaching bus stops. It will be tested on a few services initally ....................................................................................................
Tammy Tan
Director
Coporate Communications
SBS Transit Ltd
If like that, which service would get those LED then
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163 may need. Along Yio Chu Kang Road towards Sengkang, quite difficult to identify as there are too much trees around.
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maybe those trunk service that are controlled by BRAM because SBST HQ is there..
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Originally posted by gorby107:
Wow SBS also going to get LED on buses thats cool.
Today I read the ST newspaper and saw it
Extract(The Straits Times Home Paper Page 9 Forum):
[b]I Refer to the letter, "SMRT buses help us know when to alight" (ST Dec 12), by Ms Lye Su-Min.
We are pleased to inform Ms Lye that SBS Transit is in the midst of developing a system for onboard bus destination signs which will alert commuters to approaching bus stops. It will be tested on a few services initally ....................................................................................................
Tammy Tan
Director
Coporate Communications
SBS Transit Ltd
If like that, which service would get those LED then [/b]
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Those buses that go pass a stretch of bus stops but only stop a few one?
Example the stretch along Bugis/Parco where buses stop alternate and not every. -
If so, let the planned iniative be carried out
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Parts of Chinatown, Orchard and Shenton Way as well.Originally posted by Robotics999:Those buses that go pass a stretch of bus stops but only stop a few one?
Example the stretch along Bugis/Parco where buses stop alternate and not every. -
another unnecessary gadget which will lead to price increase in the future.
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Deffinitely services with uneven number of bus stops in each direction or loopingservice shud be tested first IMO. If it goes well, then there will be no problem for other service
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Do Singaporeans care? They want this but not willing to pay more for add services...Originally posted by dragg:another unnecessary gadget which will lead to price increase in the future. -
Actually... this is something what SBS Transit was looking through a few months ago. There were looking for tenders for R&D for this system to be deployed onto their buses. However, it is not going to be easy as the whole system is very complicated. It involves stuffs like GPS, setting up of LED, etc. It SHOULD NOT be an addition to our fares, but to be provided as a service for passengers.
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personally, i am against it. waste of money. moreover, it doesnt inform u of the buildings around the bus stop but only the one beside or opposite the bus stop. moreover, passengers want such gadgets but wouldnt want to pay more for it. that's why i believe by my principle, don't take a bus if you do not know where to alight.
more importantly, we shouldnt discuss which services they would put this gadgets on. we shud discuss which bus models they would put this on! -
They'll probably pamper it on VSOs. For all you know trial run on Citybuzz, NO!!!Originally posted by sinicker:personally, i am against it. waste of money. moreover, it doesnt inform u of the buildings around the bus stop but only the one beside or opposite the bus stop. moreover, passengers want such gadgets but wouldnt want to pay more for it. that's why i believe by my principle, don't take a bus if you do not know where to alight.
more importantly, we shouldnt discuss which services they would put this gadgets on. we shud discuss which bus models they would put this on!
imo LEDs aren't necessary. I rather take the svc guide/bus guide and then trace bus stop. -
No nid ,No nid ,liao liu nia
Save the money,susidise bus fare lah -
Hope that all SBST buses have LED so that to remind every passengers the next stop is. (I am referring 'next stop' as the 'next landmark bus-stop)
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The display must update regularly, if not is simply useless. Which incur costs!
For example in 190, the national library has moved in Stamford road has moved for ages, but the SMRT 190 still show "Nat Lib" when approching that bus stop. -
The display should show 'Former Natl Lib'. LOL.Originally posted by phillipC:The display must update regularly, if not is simply useless. Which incur costs!
For example in 190, the national library has moved in Stamford road has moved for ages, but the SMRT 190 still show "Nat Lib" when approching that bus stop.
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you know they won't update it.Originally posted by phillipC:The display must update regularly, if not is simply useless. Which incur costs!
For example in 190, the national library has moved in Stamford road has moved for ages, but the SMRT 190 still show "Nat Lib" when approching that bus stop.
there was a related complaint in ST last week about the stop in Bt Batok which the SMRT bus LED showed as "Opp Orix Bldg" when in fact 1. the building was far away and not very noticable from the stop and 2. Orix wasn't even the tenant of the building any more.
another reason why any similar system by SBST will be an even bigger white elephant. -
The display follows the landmark as stated in the various SMRT service guides.Originally posted by kc_leung:you know they won't update it.
there was a related complaint in ST last week about the stop in Bt Batok which the SMRT bus LED showed as "Opp Orix Bldg" when in fact 1. the building was far away and not very noticable from the stop and 2. Orix wasn't even the tenant of the building any more.
another reason why any similar system by SBST will be an even bigger white elephant.
Maintenance of such LEDs will be expensive anyway. -
Reason why SBS9888Y has its EDS destos removed & majority of the VSOs not using EDS destos?Originally posted by Apex-LW'21:Maintenance of such LEDs will be expensive anyway. -
SBST will pay more for its maintenance charges on those EDS destos that needs repairing if there is a fault on the display.Originally posted by samtlk:Reason why SBS9888Y has its EDS destos removed & majority of the VSOs not using EDS destos? -
But some service do not have service guidesOriginally posted by Donavan:They'll probably pamper it on VSOs. For all you know trial run on Citybuzz, NO!!!
imo LEDs aren't necessary. I rather take the svc guide/bus guide and then trace bus stop.
So the LED maybe useful..... -
precisely. They need not use LEDs for passenger. They just need more guides from recycled paper. Ppl wants more innovation at 0 cost.Originally posted by Apex-LW'21:SBST will pay more for its maintenance charges on those EDS destos that needs repairing if there is a fault on the display. -
If like thatOriginally posted by SBS9828X:precisely. They need not use LEDs for passenger. They just need more guides from recycled paper. Ppl wants more innovation at 0 cost.
All the service should have guides then including feeder service -
most people travelling on buses are regulars. they will know the place very well, through landmarks, roads and so on, unless its night time. Not sure of the route, can ask the driver. Singapore roads arent tht difficult to navigate around than Malaysia's.
have display system on buses, or EDS, if u all support this move, then dont complain if theres another bus fare hike next year.
Also, the physical side plates are better than EDS. side plates tells you the places the bus is going. EDS is only one at a time. by the time a passenger sees the end of the lines of locations to decide if he is boarding the bus, the bus already left!