Which Feeders/Short-Haul sv need DDs?
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as wellas First Toa Payoh Pri Sch... sometimes gotta wait for the fourth one before can go upOriginally posted by choww:Then sv238 should also have DD to cater the First Toa Payoh Sec Sch students.Bus is fully packed with them. -
I also agree with you. With bendies, passengers can quickly do boarding and alighting activities, even though I has gotten onto the second deck when the bus is just a stone's throw away from the Bus Interchange.Originally posted by 105090:sadly, feeders need bendies more than double deckers..
who want to go upstairs and sit for a few stops and run down stairs in a short time?
at least `bendies, no stairs and has another exit door, just right for short haul services
However, the problem we need to think of is the ability to manouvere, that is whether it can move around even though it's long. Also, special parts and special care is needed to take care of these buses. Singapore dosen't have enough resources and like SBS Transit, they sold off their two bendies citing reasons such as infrastructural constrains and maintainence, along with a list of other reasons.
And if it's a short haul service from where you're boarding, we know that some would be too lazy to go up. By the way, everything has it's advantages and disadvantages. -
Sv 113
From Kovan MRT to Lor Ah Soo area and vice versa during peak hours , or like those aunties going back to and from marketing and also to serve those school students around that area and other part along the route
Sometime it can be packed until the brim, so maybe they can deploy at the most 1 DD on this sv.
Sv 115 operating hours can be extended to 2000hrs to help to cope the demand and the frequency can be improved during the peak period.
Sv 112
From Kovan MRT to Hougang Ave 9 and vice versa during peak hours, or during Sat or Sun morning.
Same situation as Sv 113 so maybe can deploy at the most 1 DD.
If sv 119 can have DD why not sv 112 and 113
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But what about high-demand feeders and looping trunk routes that do a u-turn at the looping point of their journey? Remember route 804 before it was amended? The images of MB O405 buses packed to the brim, from front door to the absolute rear, at night after peak hours are still fresh on my mind. Yet, TIBS (and later SMRT) couldn't do anything about it - bendy buses were out of the question then thanks to route 804's need then to u-turn at the then-future junction of Yishun Avenue 1 and Yishun Street 41. If SBS Transit were to take over the control of route 804 (or if then-TIBS used double-decker buses), we could have seen double-decker buses being deployed on that route then to solve the overcrowding problem much earlier on.Originally posted by 105090:sadly, feeders need bendies more than double deckers..
who want to go upstairs and sit for a few stops and run down stairs in a short time?
at least `bendies, no stairs and has another exit door, just right for short haul services
And what about route 962? I still remember it in the days before the stretch of Sembawang Drive from Admiralty Street to Admiralty Link was completed. Route 962 then had zero bendy buses, because it needed to u-turn at the junction of Admiralty Link with Sembawang Drive (it was a through road at that time if my hazy memory serves me right). I remember seeing an off-service bendy bus making a u-turn there, and I always suspect that that occasion was a failed experiment to see whether bendy buses could go on route 962 at that time. Not until it was extended to Admiralty Street (which had a specially-built roundabout just to allow bendy buses to make a u-turn) were bendy buses put on it.