What IF SBS and TIBS Merged one day ?
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cool
969 run superbus Btl9, supercool
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Your topic name should be: What if SBS Transit and SMRT Buses merged one day ?
Anyway, if there was such a thing, then maybe 61, 106,and 190 would have DDs like in the past!
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sbst will need a new nick
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doomsday.
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price hike again!!!
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Then boring lor
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Hope its better.
Cause SMRT's bus freq suck big time. 960 now can wait until 20mins. Hopefully when they merge the freq will improve. Hehs, imagine 190 got B9TL, Habits, WAB SDs, WAH!
But also got one prob. SBST will continue to buy DDs, no more bendies. So when the Habits retire in many years to come, bendies will be history in SG roads! But because when SBST takes over SMRT buses, their depots are also taken as well. SO with the facilities to accomodate bendies, maybe SBST will be buying bendies again. -
I hope all the buses have a new livery... The current SMRT buses livery is damn ugly. The grey body and black wheel hubs are disgusting... I really miss the old TIBS orange livery...
The SBST livery looks nice, but the problem is that the red roof absorb heat and make the buses (esp NAC) hot and stuffy in the afternoon.
If SBST and SMRT merge, I wonder what colour scheme will the new company use. Perhaps it will stick to red, since red is the common colour in both SBST & SMRT. -
Hmm , yeah true , TIBS colours nice and shiny , miss it..Originally posted by autumncs:I hope all the buses have a new livery... The current SMRT buses livery is damn ugly. The grey body and black wheel hubs are disgusting... I really miss the old TIBS orange livery...
The SBST livery looks nice, but the problem is that the red roof absorb heat and make the buses (esp NAC) hot and stuffy in the afternoon.
If SBST and SMRT merge, I wonder what colour scheme will the new company use. Perhaps it will stick to red, since red is the common colour in both SBST & SMRT.
SBST colours looks nice also... -
190 under SBS, used more buses and all except 1 was ADDsOriginally posted by Scania N113CRB luver:Hope its better.
Cause SMRT's bus freq suck big time. 960 now can wait until 20mins. Hopefully when they merge the freq will improve. Hehs, imagine 190 got B9TL, Habits, WAB SDs, WAH!
But also got one prob. SBST will continue to buy DDs, no more bendies. So when the Habits retire in many years to come, bendies will be history in SG roads! But because when SBST takes over SMRT buses, their depots are also taken as well. SO with the facilities to accomodate bendies, maybe SBST will be buying bendies again. 
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I hate the new livery, SUCK BIG TIME!Originally posted by autumncs:I hope all the buses have a new livery... The current SMRT buses livery is damn ugly. The grey body and black wheel hubs are disgusting... I really miss the old TIBS orange livery...
The SBST livery looks nice, but the problem is that the red roof absorb heat and make the buses (esp NAC) hot and stuffy in the afternoon.
If SBST and SMRT merge, I wonder what colour scheme will the new company use. Perhaps it will stick to red, since red is the common colour in both SBST & SMRT.
But the livery somehow suit the Habits, maybe because of the black tinted windows with the black wheels. Otherwise the black wheels suck anyway. Miss the bright orange colour on the Volgren Mercs, both rigids and Artics.
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With only bus company, the company can have the choice of staying with DDs, bendies, or having both kind of buses in their fleet. It all depends on the decision of the bus co.
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I guarantee that SBST won't interested in Bendies!Originally posted by off_service:With only bus company, the company can have the choice of staying with DDs, bendies, or having both kind of buses in their fleet. It all depends on the decision of the bus co. -
I believe that if SBS Transit and SMRT merges, it may be forced to compromise and use both double-deckers and bendies alongside standard buses. This is not an entirely bad thing though - I have noticed high-load bus routes on either side being forced to use standard buses because of this or that restriction, and that they don't have the type of bus necessary to get around it (for example, the height restrictions along route 105, and the requirement to u-turn on the old route 804 before it was amended via a new road). In fact, I have seen a photo of SBS 999(U?) on route 105 somewhere before, but I'm not sure if it's one of those posed photographs.
And, besides seeing what can only happen now in our fantasy (imagine: Volvo B10Ms on 851, Dennis Lances on 133, Volvo B9TLs on 961, Mercedes Habits on route 18
), I can see that a lot of bus routes will be rationalised, akin to what happened in the 1970's when the three bus companies became one under then-SBS. Most likely, sets of somewhat-related routes operated by the two companies (like routes 27/34/39/85/89/109/161/168/858/965/969 - all of which are north - north-east - east routes to some extent) will get very major changes, or might have some of their routes even withdrawn.
The reality, though, is that an SBS Transit-SMRT merger looks unlikely for now. SMRT's predecessor, TIBS, was set up to provide some friendly competition originally, and commuters, while demanding for more integrated services, have also been calling for more competition. Even if both companies were to merge, it could very well happen under a plan to liberalise the public bus sector in Singapore, so the resulting situation could be one large company (SBS Transit + SMRT) dominating the public bus sector alongside with smaller companies competing with it. -
maybe like mediacorp and SPH TV lo....
aiyah, but i seriously think some of the SMRT bus services arent really good, esp buses along the north (except for 190 which i felt dat the frequency it is superbly good)....yup... -
I'll be the first to know and inform you guys .
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Then we can shift all those CAC Nissans to those relatively unused services =).
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OK, now imagine CAC Nissans on routes 284, 82, 103W, and Parks 408 and 409Originally posted by Yaimster:Then we can shift all those CAC Nissans to those relatively unused services =). . -
Duplicate post deleted. See above.
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What abt YIS?Originally posted by carbikebus:I guarantee that SBST won't interested in Bendies!
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yishun interchange
i guess feeder bus 804 will run sbst superbus, cool also
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Hmm... if one day SBST & SMRT merged, then we will have Superbus / B9TLs on 106, 190, 61,etc.
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Then Habits on 147, Volgren bendy on 51.Originally posted by Apex-LW'21:Hmm... if one day SBST & SMRT merged, then we will have Superbus / B9TLs on 106, 190, 61,etc. -
Before you guys continue in your own fantasy land.. have you ever thought of the constraints that the Interchange have ? Example.. Do you think Hougang got space for Bendy ? Sengkang is ever worst.. do you think the bendy can turn in ? Clementi also.. where do you find additional spaces for the Bendies ?Originally posted by Scania N113CRB luver:Then Habits on 147, Volgren bendy on 51. -
all that bendy talk aside, i believe this will happen within 3 years, based on the kind of hints MOT have been giving in their speeches.