860 already got 16 buses even with flats bet ave 4 and st 51 still got to get ready.. also most flats along ring road just opened up.. so occupancy will continue to increase over next few months.
860 time to get DDs... right now got 03 min frequency on 860/860A to Khatib MRT and 05-06 min frequency to Yishun in AM. How many more buses will you add!?!?!!?
Also time and again I have been saying that ring road needs more trunk services. Either 856 or 859 should loop around Ring road (this was my suggestion long time ago). Also one of 852 and 853 should do ring road. This will also boost the loading on these two mediocre loading services.
sv 35 get 5 DDs at once... hurray... good for people working at Alps and Xilin Ave. can sit comfortably all the way.
35 should improve on freq first
Indeed DDs on 860 are long overdue. It is unhelpful that SMRT is only adding more and more A22s and only very recently using a non-BSEP bendy. What is with SMRT being a refusenik and taking so long to put DDs on 860?
Originally posted by TIB868X:Indeed DDs on 860 are long overdue. It is unhelpful that SMRT is only adding more and more A22s and only very recently using a non-BSEP bendy. What is with SMRT being a refusenik and taking so long to put DDs on 860?
I suspect there is an SMRT agenda against Yishun and Sembawang customers... LOL
Okay enough conspiracies if not the trolls will come out again.
Originally posted by AntiDennisLance:I suspect there is an SMRT agenda against Yishun and Sembawang customers... LOL
Okay enough conspiracies if not the trolls will come out again.
Hahahaha SMRT against Yishun and Sembawang! What a joke! Its all because of AMDEP height restriction and AMDEP mostly covers Yishun area thats why many Yishun services cannot get Enviros! So just wait for AMDEP to finish its modification. But i don understand why Sembawang don have DDs like 167 and 980. They are mostly partially from WLDEP and it can get enviros more easily. If for Yishun services to change duties to WPDEP to get enviros is very hard. Thats why its better that AMDEP will be taking Enviros later
Originally posted by TIB868X:Indeed DDs on 860 are long overdue. It is unhelpful that SMRT is only adding more and more A22s and only very recently using a non-BSEP bendy. What is with SMRT being a refusenik and taking so long to put DDs on 860?
I think they didn't realize that 860 will get so over loaded just in matter of few months. this has to do with two things:
1. Opening of new flats and higher occupancy level
2. People preferring Khatib MRT as it is easy access to MRT with less walking
Hence, 860 loading suddenly sore up. So now they are taking action on AMDEP that they should have done long before. With loading forecasting, SMRT has always been weak in that aspect.
969 has so many rigids spamming on it... still more than 50% SD fleet... I think SMRT needs to prioritize 969 and get it more DDs.
Haha I tot there's 1 850Ex860 slot or something? There's 1 WLDEP crossover slot for 860..
Can upgrade that slot what..like 854x860 that uses bendy bus..
3533X --> KJDEP 188 --> KJDEP 985
So now all 3 BSEP slots on 985 are DDs... AMDEP BSEP was transferred to 985 as well... looks like AMDEP was sudden change... otherwise 961 BSEP and 985 BSEP would have remained with AMDEP... and they could have converted the SD slot to DD instead of transferring the BSEP slot to KJ/WL.
Originally posted by TIB429E:Haha I tot there's 1 850Ex860 slot or something? There's 1 WLDEP crossover slot for 860..
Can upgrade that slot what..like 854x860 that uses bendy bus..
that 850Ex860 slot is from AMDEP, yeah 850E has buses from both WLDEP and AMDEP.
now that AMDEP has DDs there can be no excuse for not having DDs on 860.
Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:3533X --> KJDEP 188 --> KJDEP 985
So now all 3 BSEP slots on 985 are DDs... AMDEP BSEP was transferred to 985 as well... looks like AMDEP was sudden change... otherwise 961 BSEP and 985 BSEP would have remained with AMDEP... and they could have converted the SD slot to DD instead of transferring the BSEP slot to KJ/WL.
now the administrative execises of transferring those AMDEP 961and 985 BSEP duties to other depots, so that they could be converted to DDs slots, look like an utter waste of time. assuming only the depot parking changes and that they park at WL/KJ but still start at GL1, its a total waste of fuel. inefficient practices as usual.
969 as well, makes no sense for it to be full WLDEP, total disconnect from common sense. now that AMDEP can have DDs, at least those DD blocks that start at tampines can park at AMDEP.
fun fact: when 854 still had duties from WLDEP, some of them started at bedok. OS from WLDEP to bedok. insane.
Service like 75,190,960,966,969 & 970 need minor Amdep control.I dont understand the need of 925 to be dual depot when either Kjdep or Wldep can solely control.
Originally posted by carbikebus:Service like 75,190,960,966,969 & 970 need minor Amdep control.I dont understand the need of 925 to be dual depot when either Kjdep or Wldep can solely control.
925 can be just KJDEP.
Originally posted by Sbs6750E:I cannot understand why 87 bndep controlled instead of hgdep when hgdep is nearer to Sengkang/bedok?
Most probably Hgdep facing over capacity thus 87 was transfered to Bndep.
sv 45 got another BSEP WEG add from BNDEP side. No sv 33 crossover anymore. The KUB slot has been upgraded to WEG. Can someone confirm this? Thank you.
Originally posted by TIB868X:that 850Ex860 slot is from AMDEP, yeah 850E has buses from both WLDEP and AMDEP.
now that AMDEP has DDs there can be no excuse for not having DDs on 860.
Really? But 3114X is listed 850Ex860 and it's WLDEP O_o...
And what I meant was since it's WLDEP, and 860 needs more HC buses, why LTA or SMRT didn't upgrade that slot then?
Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:925 can be just KJDEP.
I dun mind Wldep either but its ironic for the svc to have dual control where svc like 960 & 966 need it more.
Funniest is 141 that is dual service with 9 buses... brbp has 3 duties, hgdep has 6.
Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:Funniest is 141 that is dual service with 9 buses... brbp has 3 duties, hgdep has 6.
That one really gone case..Should let Hgdep control since its originated from Lor 1.Svc 50 also can Amdep solely control.52 is the one need dual control
Originally posted by Sbs6750E:141 just brbp, 50 amdep, 87 hgdep, 59/88 can minor bndep, 109 can full hgdep.
You have to consider HGDEP has limited space, hence 87 was transferred to BNDEP as it has CGBP as supplementary depot that HGDEP does not have.
sv 963 gets 2 more BSEP E500s.
3595R and 3596M posted to sv 963. In addition, now only 1 bendy left on 963. Bendy slots changed to DD.
Did sv 169 get one more BSEP add? I thought it had 3 BSEP E500s.. now seems like 3549 also is on 169... so 4 BSEP E500s + 1 SMRT E500.