SMRT Redeployment from 23 March 2008

• ^tamago^

  5 Mar 08, 20:49

  Originally posted by gorby107:

  
  To Sembawang?

  
  Yeah...
• TIB1018B

  5 Mar 08, 21:05

  Originally posted by carbikebus:

  Latest update:852 will be WLDEP/KJDEP controlled.925 on weekdays is indirectly KJDEP/WLDEP controlled as 177 is under WLDEP

  
  This means no more Lances on service 852, probably Scania and DAF fleets for service 852 instead. Those Lances may replace the Mercs on service 961 which might gets redeployed out from AMDEP.

  Should also make service 882 a full WLDEP control too.

• off_service

  5 Mar 08, 21:20

  Originally posted by ^tamago^:

  I think 852 should be extending soon.... totally not under AMDEP. To make it worst, how about a number change to 982?

  As much as I welcome the extension if true.. we must not forget sv 857 does not go anywhere near Woodlands/Sembawang and yet is 100% WLDEP.

  Anyway.. service 171 also going WLDEP mah..

• off_service

  5 Mar 08, 21:24

  Originally posted by TIB1018B:

  
  This means no more Lances on service 852, probably Scania and DAF fleets for service 852 instead. Those Lances may replace the Mercs on service 961 which might gets redeployed out from AMDEP.

  Should also make service 882 a full WLDEP control too.

  If 985 is going fully AMDEP I think the chances of it getting Lances is higher.

• ^tamago^

  5 Mar 08, 21:28

  Originally posted by off_service:

  As much as I welcome the extension if true.. we must not forget sv 857 does not go anywhere near Woodlands/Sembawang and yet is 100% WLDEP.

  Anyway.. service 171 also going WLDEP mah..

  
  857 is probably due to arrangements with 964. if 857 is out of wldep then the 964 bendies would idle during weekends. 171... is weird. we still dunno wat SMRTB is planning....
• TIB1171R

  5 Mar 08, 21:33

  False alarm.. 852 is indeed going to be full WLDEP. Double-checked with depot notice to drivers. My apologies.

   

  I say... dump all the Elbos onto this service!

• TIB1171R

  5 Mar 08, 21:37

  Originally posted by ^tamago^:

  
  857 is probably due to arrangements with 964. if 857 is out of wldep then the 964 bendies would idle during weekends. 171... is weird. we still dunno wat SMRTB is planning....

  
  857 is no longer using 964 bendies on weekends imo...

   

  If last 2 weekends are of any indication, 857 is now using 856 perm bendies (1244, 1246 etc) on weekends instead...

   

  And 856 gets the scanias as usual.

• TIB1018B

  5 Mar 08, 21:39

  Originally posted by TIB1171R:

  False alarm.. 852 is indeed going to be full WLDEP. Double-checked with depot notice to drivers. My apologies.

   

  I say... dump all the Elbos onto this service!

  
  Scania Striders, Elbos, Nissans maybe

• ^tamago^

  5 Mar 08, 21:47

  Originally posted by TIB1171R:

  
  857 is no longer using 964 bendies on weekends imo...

   

  If last 2 weekends are of any indication, 857 is now using 856 perm bendies (1244, 1246 etc) on weekends instead...

   

  And 856 gets the scanias as usual.

  
  used to... amdep didn't really have any service tat is very empty on weekends. anyway where 964 bendies run to then? =S
• off_service

  5 Mar 08, 22:09

  Originally posted by ^tamago^:

  
  857 is probably due to arrangements with 964. if 857 is out of wldep then the 964 bendies would idle during weekends. 171... is weird. we still dunno wat SMRTB is planning....

  Service 857 has been with WLDEP ever since 14 Jan 2001. So I believe it could be arrangement of TIBS back then. Sometimes I see service 964 bendies on service 960. Think the permers are idling in depot. The 964 bendies could also be on 969.

• off_service

  5 Mar 08, 22:11

  Originally posted by TIB1171R:

  
  857 is no longer using 964 bendies on weekends imo...

   

  If last 2 weekends are of any indication, 857 is now using 856 perm bendies (1244, 1246 etc) on weekends instead...

   

  And 856 gets the scanias as usual.

  The bendies now are rojak.. dumped from practically everywhere..

• Airbus330Captain

  6 Mar 08, 10:24

  I heard that 852 will get full fleet Mercedes. Let's see how true is this. I seriously hope to see 852 or 857 extended to Sembawang.

• TIB1018B

  6 Mar 08, 11:54

  Originally posted by off_service:

  Service 857 has been with WLDEP ever since 14 Jan 2001. So I believe it could be arrangement of TIBS back then. Sometimes I see service 964 bendies on service 960. Think the permers are idling in depot. The 964 bendies could also be on 969.

  
  14 Jan 2001, that was also the day when major redeployments took place also for other bus services:-

  Service 167 from full WLDEP to become partial AMDEP/WLDEP
  Service 851 from full WLDEP to become partial AMDEP/WLDEP, eventually became full AMDEP in March that year
  Service 852 from full AMDEP to become partial AMDEP/KJDEP
  Service 859 from full AMDEP to become full WLDEP
  Service 980 from full AMDEP to become partial AMDEP/WLDEP

  Service 857 was introduced on the same day and came under full WLDEP. Some Mercs were previously from service 851 under WLDEP.

• TIB1018B

  6 Mar 08, 12:02

  Originally posted by ^tamago^:

  I think 852 should be extending soon.... totally not under AMDEP. To make it worst, how about a number change to 982?

  
  Should rename Sembawang services to 88x series, since there is a service 882. Eg:-

  Service 980  service 880
  Service 981  service 881
  Service 167  service 887
  Service 859  service 889

  For the same case SMRT should also have renamed service 700 to a 97x series after integrate with feeder service 921  (just like 521  963, 185  985, 175  975)

• TIB1018B

  6 Mar 08, 12:07

  Originally posted by Airbus330Captain:

  I heard that 852 will get full fleet Mercedes. Let's see how true is this. I seriously hope to see 852 or 857 extended to Sembawang.

  
  Transfer those AMDEP Mercs on service 961 back to its former WLDEP and become service 852's permers. then deploy those ex-852's UK Lances on service 961 in return.

• AntiDennisLance

  6 Mar 08, 13:49

  Originally posted by vivienlee:

  DAFs/Hinos on svcs 75, 700, 970  

  Scanias on svcs 61, 171, 173, 177, 852, 859   

  Volgren bendies on svcs 61, 859    

  How come 106, 920, 921, 941, 945, 947 not invloved huh?

   

  Scania's on 171 is nothing new. 171 had heaps of Scania's when AMDEP had all the Scania's and when the Bukit Panjang services sucked all of its Mercs away.

• nenepokey

  6 Mar 08, 17:26

  confirmed from S-shift driver of TIB583S(852 cameo) today:

  852 will be extended to Woodlands Regional Interchange and the current berths at Yishun Interchange will not be in operation. Commuters of 852 will board along Yishun Ave 2 at BLK 923.

• carbikebus

  6 Mar 08, 18:16

  Checked with my friends @ AM,he says that 985 will be majority AMDEP(9/10) & Minority KJDEP(5).Mean while if really 852 to extend till WRI it should be WLDEP/KJDEP.Chey one big round from WRI to BBT,SBW are more logical

• TIB1018B

  6 Mar 08, 20:16

  Originally posted by AntiDennisLance:

  Scania's on 171 is nothing new. 171 had heaps of Scania's when AMDEP had all the Scania's and when the Bukit Panjang services sucked all of its Mercs away.

  
  Service 171 in the past had about 6 NAC Scania ELBOs and occasionally OAC Scania Strider cameos. It was also AMDEP/WLDEP controlled for a short period of time when WLDEP just began operations in Oct 1998.

• TIB1018B

  6 Mar 08, 20:18

  Originally posted by carbikebus:

  Checked with my friends @ AM,he says that 985 will be majority AMDEP(9/10) & Minority KJDEP(5).Mean while if really 852 to extend till WRI it should be WLDEP/KJDEP.Chey one big round from WRI to BBT,SBW are more logical

  
  By then service 985 will be full of Lances and very few DAFs

  But is it really that service 852 going to extend to WRI??

• off_service

  6 Mar 08, 20:24

  Originally posted by TIB1018B:

  
  By then service 985 will be full of Lances and very few DAFs

  But is it really that service 852 going to extend to WRI??

  
  I see no point of extending 852 to Woodlands. First, it's too huge a loop. For now there's already 3 services from Woodlands to various parts of Bukit Batok. Why need a 4th and a super circuitious route when the 3 are so much more direct?

  And which berth will sv 852 use? With 950 and 966??

• off_service

  6 Mar 08, 20:27

  Originally posted by carbikebus:

  Checked with my friends @ AM,he says that 985 will be majority AMDEP(9/10) & Minority KJDEP(5).Mean while if really 852 to extend till WRI it should be WLDEP/KJDEP.Chey one big round from WRI to BBT,SBW are more logical

  
  Possibly Woodlands to Bt Batok via Sembawang?

• TIB1018B

  6 Mar 08, 20:27

  Originally posted by off_service:

  
  I see no point of extending 852 to Woodlands. First, it's too huge a loop. For now there's already 3 services from Woodlands to various parts of Bukit Batok. Why need a 4th and a super circuitious route when the 3 are so much more direct?

  And which berth will sv 852 use? With 950 and 966??

  
  I rather SMRT utilise their Sembawang bus interchange and put in more bus services to terminate there

• off_service

  6 Mar 08, 20:29

  Originally posted by nenepokey:

  confirmed from S-shift driver of TIB583S(852 cameo) today:

  852 will be extended to Woodlands Regional Interchange and the current berths at Yishun Interchange will not be in operation. Commuters of 852 will board along Yishun Ave 2 at BLK 923.

  Driver's information are not always accurate.

• off_service

  6 Mar 08, 20:29

  Originally posted by TIB1018B:

  
  I rather SMRT utilise their Sembawang bus interchange and put in more bus services to terminate there

  Now it's utilised as a split shift bus park.