Proposed visit to HGDEP in December
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you all very thick-skinned huh? ask SBST to sponsor... Who got connection here?
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1. SLBPOriginally posted by Smiley Volgren:SLBP stands for Soon Lee Bus Park but it is a mulit-storey depot! Have you seen the Superbus going up the third storey? Of course, it's true!
Darryl, we have to make the special negotiation on lowering the price for chartered bus if SBST is reluctant to sponsor us. More likely, we have to share money to book a single bus...cheaper lah. It's best if we all sign the petition to bombard SBST to host a one-day 3 depots tour for us. "Host" means SBST sponsors us a chartered Superbus...maybe VSO
Name 3 depots which you will like to visit FIRST:
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2)
3)
If the FIRST visit is voted, then we know how much we want to visit! Come on, bus fans!!!
2. HGDEP
3. BNDEP -
Originally posted by SBS9819Y:
If you are hungry, then count SLBP out. The directiion from HGDEP to SLBP is quite far. I believe that a staff will recommend us to HGDEP as it's near SBS Transit HQ located at Braddell Rd.
To "Smiley Volgren": may I know your user ID on the message board?
Back to the topic, I guess SBST won't be so kind. We have to charter the bus ourselves if we want transported to be provided. How I wish the 811Ds are still around..You see, the 27-seater bus is enough for all of us and imagine the group of us occupying about two-thirds of the seats! Probability ->0. So how, what model shall we charter? B10BLE, Mk 4 (27xx, 28xx series) or Mk 4 (9xx series)? Maybe we can gather at say, Hougang Central Int and wait for the bus to pick us up? Oh yes, we should get more people going, so that the cost paid by each person will be reduced.
Do you think there is a canteen in each depot? We can't go on the tour w/o eating lunch rite?
About the petition...if you are interested in going (whether you can eventually make it is another case), pls sign your name, scan it and send it to me. I shall include the signatures of [b]everyone who is interested.
My votes: 1. HGDEP 2. SLBP 3. AMDEP. Charles, you see i'm so~ good to you![/b]
However, the tour is preferred to be scheduled in the afternoon instead of expecting ourselves to have lunch at the depot or whatever... We are not "babies"
Hey so serious about the petition ar? Oh man...you can just write a formal letter to the Director of Corporate Communication, Mdm Cheng Lay Tin who assigned her employees to handle Friends of SBST portfolio. They have the authority to host a activity for us.
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They'd recommend us to BRAM as it's right NEXT to the HQ!Originally posted by Smiley Volgren:If you are hungry, then count SLBP out. The directiion from HGDEP to SLBP is quite far. I believe that a staff will recommend us to HGDEP as it's near SBS Transit HQ located at Braddell Rd.
However, the tour is preferred to be scheduled in the afternoon instead of expecting ourselves to have lunch at the depot or whatever... We are not "babies"
Hey so serious about the petition ar? Oh man...you can just write a formal letter to the Director of Corporate Communication, Mdm Cheng Lay Tin who assigned her employees to handle Friends of SBST portfolio. They have the authority to host a activity for us.
Now, let's see what the others vote which depot they want to visit. -
Nope, I still want to go to SLBP. Long distance is alright, then we can enjoy our ride on our chartered bus!Originally posted by Smiley Volgren:If you are hungry, then count SLBP out. The directiion from HGDEP to SLBP is quite far. I believe that a staff will recommend us to HGDEP as it's near SBS Transit HQ located at Braddell Rd.
However, the tour is preferred to be scheduled in the afternoon instead of expecting ourselves to have lunch at the depot or whatever... We are not "babies"
Hey so serious about the petition ar? Oh man...you can just write a formal letter to the Director of Corporate Communication, Mdm Cheng Lay Tin who assigned her employees to handle Friends of SBST portfolio. They have the authority to host a activity for us.
Now, let's see what the others vote which depot they want to visit.
I don't think there's anything wrong with having lunch at a depot. It will be a good chance for us to chat with the staff who bring us around. Those who had went to Woodlands Depot the other time should know. After all, a whole day trip is more fun than a half day trip!
I shall not consider the letter a petition, but to make it more convincing, I really hope that those who intend to go will send me your signatures to me via email for me to add.
Thanks for the "lobang". The only worry I have now is that suay suay Dorothy Lee might be the one who will in charge. The prospect of this is...oh please, NO!!!!!! Remember the "V"31SCN? I'll give it a try anyway.
To everyone: do you think I should write to Vincent Lim instead? Remember that we are visiting as members of public. I'm not sure if Corporate Comms deal only with Friends. -
Originally posted by SBS9818A:
Then what's the point? You can go into BRAM if you have some official reasons, like dialouge session, etc. The other time I even went to BRAM to buy the twin models!
They'd recommend us to BRAM as it's right [b]NEXT to the HQ![/b] -
I wanna go to SLBP, AMKDEP and HGDEP. Well, this is what I have thought of:
Visit the first depot. Have lunch somewhere near the depot. Then we proceed to the 2nd depot and 3rd depot respectively. -
Hi everyone,
I got an email from someone called Sabrina from SBST Advertising Department regarding charter enquiry. She gave me a file regarding the price of chartering but most of the info can be found here.
http://www.bus-charter.com.sg/MMS_PROD/SilverStream/Pages/pgCharterPricePublic.html
I realised that chartering a bus may not be feasible because be it multiple stopover (i.e. Point A to B to C and back to A) or at disposal, there's a time limit of 4 hours. How about I make special arrangements for special buses (eg Lynx, U31SCN, 16.240, etc) to be available for us to hop on a joy ride within the depot or maybe just outside the depot?
She was also kind enought to refer me to Ms Connie Chua from Corporate Comms to arrange for a visit. She gave me Ms Chua's email address, so may just send her an email. This will make things easy for all of us.[/b] -
Hao Rui, please request for special arrangements! It would really be more feasible to charter a bus from point to point, it may be cheaper too and there is no time limit.
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One-way chartered bus is a suitable and cheaper choice bcoz not all of us prefers two-way trip. Definitely, we may go on our own after the visit to one of the depots. What do u think guys?Originally posted by SBS9818A:Hao Rui, please request for special arrangements! It would really be more feasible to charter a bus from point to point, it may be cheaper too and there is no time limit. -
I asked about the difference between multiple stop over and disposal, and also whether we can choose the model of bus we want to charter. Here's the reply:
Hi,
A 2 way transfer is like from point A to B and back to Point B only.
If your visiting took an hour or two, I shall charge you as 2 way
transfer
(multiple stopover) - $140.00 (first 4 hours), sebsq of $10.00 per
add't
hour.
2 way transfer (multiple stopover) : -
From the pick up point (Point A) --------> SLBD (1or 2 hrs visiting)
----------->AMBD (1or 2 hrs visiting) ----------> HGBD (1or 2 hrs
visiting)
and proceed back to Point A ; the bus will not wait for you but the bus
will return at a timing to fetch you to the next destination.
For disposal, the bus will be with you throughout your charter.
We do normally deploy normal SBST buses for chartering.
Signing off.
Warmest Regards,
Sabrina
Advertising Department
SBS Transit Ltd
DID: 6383 7040 -
So how, shall we just forget about chartering? But I'll try my best to persuade them to allow us on those special buses at the depots.
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I have a contact, who is also an extremely reliable source...only, he prefers to stay away from obsessed enthusiasts.....Originally posted by oliver_yuen87:you all very thick-skinned huh? ask SBST to sponsor... Who got connection here? -
Just continue with the charter. I would suggest that we be picked up from somewhere else other than SLBP, maybe somewhere convienient for all of us and the bus could bring us to SLBP from there.
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Most of us are bus freaks, surely we will travel in bus on our own... i think we dun need the chartering bus, is it?Originally posted by SBS9819Y:So how, shall we just forget about chartering? But I'll try my best to persuade them to allow us on those special buses at the depots.
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I asked about the defination of the duration the bus is being chartered, i.e. whether it includes the time we visit the depot and here's the reply:
Chartering time - time at pick up point
time to be pick up from destinations
time back to the pick up point
How do you interprete this?
Regarding whether we have a choice of the bus model, the reply was:
We do usually make no promises if you wish to have a choice of the bus
model. We have to depend on the availability of buses on each district.
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Is it possible not to return to the pick-up point? For instance if we began at Jurong East MRT and end at HGDEP, it would be stupid to return to Jurong East again!
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[quote]Originally posted by SBS9819Y:
[b]I asked about the defination of the duration the bus is being chartered, i.e. whether it includes the time we visit the depot and here's the reply:
Chartering time - time at pick up point
time to be pick up from destinations
time back to the pick up point
How do you interprete this?
Smiley Volgren: I give you some examples of how to confirm a bus chartering.
For example:
First Pick-up point : Jurong East Interchange, 9.30am
Drop off point : Soon Lee Bus Depot, 10.00am
Second pick-up point: Soon Lee Bus Depot, 11.00am
Final drop off point : Hougang Depot
After the visit, we go home on our own
That is something like that....
Regarding whether we have a choice of the bus model, the reply was:
We do usually make no promises if you wish to have a choice of the bus
model. We have to depend on the availability of buses on each district.[/]
Smiley Volgren: You just request for a bus model which you prefer and they will send us :-X The annoucement for a bus model will be known a few days before the day of the visit -
hmmm charter bus eh?
can we get a scania? (laughers)
preferably 2888
ZYX -
Yanxin, why not the MAN 16.240 or the Lynx? These two are now no longer in public service, and the MAN is going to be scrapped soon.