how many are there?

• SMRT 32373238

  12 Jan 07, 20:01

  jus curious to know how many new wheelchair-friendly buses are there in s'pore? i see alot nowadays, esp on 147, 21, and 51...
  
  sorry i dono its brand... i'm a bus nOOblet..
• TIB1049L

  12 Jan 07, 20:03

  Those are Volvo B9TLs.
• TWS4793

  12 Jan 07, 20:03

  There are actually 200 new WABs or B9TL's in Singapore. However, only 5 bus services are using B9TL's.
• SMRT 32373238

  12 Jan 07, 20:04

  ok thanks guys... will there be more to come or they sticking to 200?
• TIB1049L

  12 Jan 07, 20:05

  Originally posted by TWS4793:

  There are actually 200 new WABs or B9TL's in Singapore. However, only 5 bus services are using B9TL's.

  Services using B9TLs: 198, 196, 147, 12, 21 if i am not wrong
• sbst275

  12 Jan 07, 20:05

  Originally posted by SMRT 32373238:

  ok thanks guys... will there be more to come or they sticking to 200?

  Eventually all buses would be WAB
• SMRT 32373238

  12 Jan 07, 20:07

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  Eventually all buses would be WAB

  yea but that'll take awhile... will they order any more new ones?
• TIB1049L

  12 Jan 07, 20:09

  Originally posted by SMRT 32373238:

  yea but that'll take awhile... will they order any more new ones?

  Some B9TLs haven't arrived yet, however PTC had a rule now that all buses that are ordered should be WABs.
  
  Currently SMRTB is ordering 66 rigids
• SMRT 32373238

  12 Jan 07, 20:15

  Originally posted by TIB1049L:

  Currently SMRTB is ordering 66 rigids

  woa cool.. wat are rigids? are they bendies?
• TIB1049L

  12 Jan 07, 20:19

  Originally posted by SMRT 32373238:

  woa cool.. wat are rigids? are they bendies?

  They are not bendies. They r single decks (a.k.a SD's or Rigids)
• SMRT 32373238

  12 Jan 07, 20:26

  hmm nice.... when're they due to be in service?
• TIB1049L

  12 Jan 07, 20:28

  Originally posted by SMRT 32373238:

  hmm nice.... when're they due to be in service?

  We don't know yet - We don't even know which model they are buying. Its in the planning stage
• SMRT 32373238

  12 Jan 07, 20:31

  sounds great... thanks... will be looking forward to it...
• Scania N113CRB luver

  13 Jan 07, 00:37

  Originally posted by SMRT 32373238:

  sounds great... thanks... will be looking forward to it...

  yea.... SMRT will be snatching the title "First WAB SD in SG!"
• SBS9806J

  13 Jan 07, 11:50

  Originally posted by Scania N113CRB luver:

  yea.... SMRT will be snatching the title "First WAB SD in SG!"

  Unless SBST buy new SDs
• SBS9888Y

  13 Jan 07, 12:18

  well SMRT confirm getting the first WAB bendy in Singapore title
• SBS9806J

  13 Jan 07, 12:25

  Originally posted by TIB1049L:

  Services using B9TLs: 198, 196, 147, 12, 21 if i am not wrong

  Service 2, 7 , 51 also have B9TL
• SBS9806J

  13 Jan 07, 12:26

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• SBS9888Y

  13 Jan 07, 12:34

  SMRT buying buses first? hopefully SBST buys a demo first to snatch the title
• SBS9806J

  13 Jan 07, 22:20

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• Airbus330Captain

  13 Jan 07, 22:44

  Originally posted by SBS9888Y:

  SMRT buying buses first? hopefully SBST buys a demo first to snatch the title

  SBST boy , that is unlikely to happen.
• Scania N113CRB luver

  13 Jan 07, 22:53

  Originally posted by SBS9806J:

  Unless SBST buy new SDs

  Unlikely also. SMRT has already made the first move. SBST will take some time. And when SBST had oredi make the purchase, SMRT's one would have arrived and titled "first WAB SD in SG".
• ZYX2005

  16 Jan 07, 00:21

  a rough estimate is we've got 15 chasis being assembled
  
  and some 100 units of these B9TLs on the road as of jan 15 2007.
  
  u could go Businfohub and count the B9s in the B9TL deployment list if u wish
  lols
  
  ZYX
  
• carbikebus

  16 Jan 07, 02:11

  Whatever it is,SBST is the first operator in SG to have WAB buses overall title,And i'm not surprised if they add a few SDs and DDs as well.B9L & B9TL euro V MKII version.SMRT Buses?I forsee several of it's bus routes suffer withdrawal and shortened in coming months and years.Short-Haul feeder like services is the only new services they can introduced
• stooper

  16 Jan 07, 21:54

  Originally posted by carbikebus:

  Short-Haul feeder like services is the only new services they can introduced

  Where got so good introduce feeder service? They introduce trunk svc and charge trunk fares...