Capacity Upgrade/Downgrade Reporting on Bus Services

• lemon1974

  13 Oct 15, 11:02

  Originally posted by dupdup77:

  138A is from Ang mo kio int to singapore zoo only available on sat and sun and public holiday mornings to slightly past noon time. Cheers. Thanks.

  unofficially 138A also operate on weekdays. (day and night) and weekend (night)...

  saw it so many times already. off service buses were pull to do 138A when there is heavy loading....

• carbikebus

  13 Oct 15, 20:26

  Imho,SMRT service that ought to get additional BSEP is 61(1 more DD from either side),167(2 DDs from either side),178(1 more fullday A22),188(1 more DD),307(1 more A22),852(1 more A22 from Amdep),855(2 additional A22 or E500),911(1 A24),950(1 more A22),961(1 DD from Amdep),965(1 more DD),970(1 more A22),975(1 more A22)

  980(2 more buses from Wldep).

• SMB42P

  14 Oct 15, 00:10

  Originally posted by SMB315C:

  172 gotten a BSEP fleet add (Finally)
  
  SMB3522B >> BUDEP 172 (172AP90)

  
  today 3522B was on 190AP19, the only BSEP bus i spotted on 172 was SMB3087R, and there is only SMB5065R for DDs today....

  Nonetheless, still a good add even though it doesnt seem to have gotten a DD...shall observe a few days...

• dupdup77

  14 Oct 15, 08:35

  Originally posted by lemon1974:

  unofficially 138A also operate on weekdays. (day and night) and weekend (night)...

  saw it so many times already. off service buses were pull to do 138A when there is heavy loading....

  Hi mr lemon1974, thanks for informing. Cheers.

• SMB1333T

  15 Oct 15, 22:06

  2 851 S bendies converted to AP.

  the rigids on the 2 AP slots now on the S slots of those 2 bendies

• AntiDennisLance

  16 Oct 15, 08:32

  Originally posted by SMB1333T:

  2 851 S bendies converted to AP.

  the rigids on the 2 AP slots now on the S slots of those 2 bendies

  Which 2?

   

  So 2 on AP and 1 on S total 3?

• carbikebus

  16 Oct 15, 18:25

  What he meant is those 2 split shift bendy buses goes to full day and 2 single deckers full day goes to split shift

• BusAnalayzer

  16 Oct 15, 22:41

  sv 187 now has only 3 high capacity buses in its fleet.

  2 Enviros, 1 bendy. 

  Fleet size still 26 buses.

  Between 17.15 and 18.30, SMRT has planned MAN A22 every 04-05 min departure from Boon Lay interchange, with 1 07 min interval in between for Enviro DD. 

  Direction from Woodlands to Boon Lay during PM peak will see bus every 12-15 mins with 1 Enviro and 1 bendy planned to do PM peak from WDL to Boon Lay.

  My friend carbikebus, can you imagine the massive downgrade on 187 and that too done so slyly by SMRT. #pathetic.

• TIB 585L

  16 Oct 15, 23:22

  I can bet 187 gonna get an upgrade soon. 961 also

• BusAnalayzer

  17 Oct 15, 11:44

  Originally posted by TIB 585L:

  I can bet 187 gonna get an upgrade soon. 961 also

  do you even call that an upgrade, when they first do 2 downgrades???

• TIB868X

  17 Oct 15, 14:48

  Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:

  do you even call that an upgrade, when they first do 2 downgrades???

  easy to upgrade services when they've been downgrading services  

• BusAnalayzer

  19 Oct 15, 12:11

  SMRT's shocking capacity downgrade on high loading services

  67 - TWO E500 slots done by random SDs

  106 - Bendy slot downgraded to SD

  187 - TWO Bendy slots downgraded to SD

  188 - TWO Bendy slots done by random SD or 5889

  851 - Has been notorious over years to downgrade bendy slots to SD

  Feeders/Intratowns 300, 800, 811, 900, 901, 911 have been notorious to get BSEP bus and downgrading Bendy to SD slot.

• SMB42P

  20 Oct 15, 00:13

  Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:

  SMRT's shocking capacity downgrade on high loading services

  67 - TWO E500 slots done by random SDs

  106 - Bendy slot downgraded to SD

  187 - TWO Bendy slots downgraded to SD

  188 - TWO Bendy slots done by random SD or 5889

  851 - Has been notorious over years to downgrade bendy slots to SD

  Feeders/Intratowns 300, 800, 811, 900, 901, 911 have been notorious to get BSEP bus and downgrading Bendy to SD slot.

  302 too..reduced 2 BD to 2 SD (1510Z, 1516H)

• SBS 9256 X

  20 Oct 15, 00:33

  Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:

  SMRT's shocking capacity downgrade on high loading services

  67 - TWO E500 slots done by random SDs

  106 - Bendy slot downgraded to SD

  187 - TWO Bendy slots downgraded to SD

  188 - TWO Bendy slots done by random SD or 5889

  851 - Has been notorious over years to downgrade bendy slots to SD

  Feeders/Intratowns 300, 800, 811, 900, 901, 911 have been notorious to get BSEP bus and downgrading Bendy to SD slot.

  811 fleet ah... I also noticed. I didn't see TIB 1171 R. I frequently see SMB 8010 D, SMB 8013 X, SMB 8014 T, TIB 1218 R and the rest are A22 (SMB 1325 S, SMB 1360 P, SMB 1361 L, SMB 1362 J, SMB 1364 D)

• BusAnalayzer

  20 Oct 15, 13:48

  Originally posted by SMB42P:

  302 too..reduced 2 BD to 2 SD (1510Z, 1516H)

  Seriously... what the crap shit is this? I can understand 300 getting capacity downgrades because you have sv 301/983 now. Also 975 has better capacity. But sv like 302 the lone ranger to YT with 307 getting downgrades is total bullshit. 

  Same for 811 and 911. 

• SBS 9631X

  20 Oct 15, 17:53

  Originally posted by SBS 9256 X:

  811 fleet ah... I also noticed. I didn't see TIB 1171 R. I frequently see SMB 8010 D, SMB 8013 X, SMB 8014 T, TIB 1218 R and the rest are A22 (SMB 1325 S, SMB 1360 P, SMB 1361 L, SMB 1362 J, SMB 1364 D)

  Just a point to add, as far as I observed for Sv 811, the rigids are quite consistent. There's not much of MIA rigids from 811. Maybe one or two per day usually, but for a service like 811, it's normal. 

  It's the Bendies that have been missing. And not to forget also, AMDEP loves to play mahjong with their fleet of Yishun-based MAN Bendies anyway. So you should be looking at which of the Bendies have been running & MIA. 1171R should be out 

• BusAnalayzer

  21 Oct 15, 16:37

  From Dec onwards, sv 194 should be getting DDs.

• Path Light

  21 Oct 15, 20:25

  Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:

  From Dec onwards, sv 194 should be getting DDs.

  Then Service 194 will use DDs with effect from December 2015. We shall see

• array88

  21 Oct 15, 20:41

  Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:

  From Dec onwards, sv 194 should be getting DDs.

  DDs for just 3 stops along Jln Ahmad Ibrahim?

• TIB429E

  21 Oct 15, 21:15

  Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:

  Seriously... what the crap shit is this? I can understand 300 getting capacity downgrades because you have sv 301/983 now. Also 975 has better capacity. But sv like 302 the lone ranger to YT with 307 getting downgrades is total bullshit. 

  Same for 811 and 911. 

  911? Didn't downgrade liao ah..

  Added 2 AP slots, no longer got BSEP supplement. Bendy still runs...

  This morning observations - 9:10am - 9:20am from St82..
  1405 911E 
  1407 911E*
  1497 911*
  1451 911* 
  1476 911E 
  1459 911 
  1406 911E
  1499 911
  1192 911...

• SMB42P

  22 Oct 15, 00:55

  BPS1 confirm has 3 buses for PM peak, and 2 buses for AM peak...

  For PM off peak, 2 buses will cross over to 172, and the last one will cross over to 190...

  One duty for 172 is BPS1S251, the other yet to be known.

  The duty for 190 is BPS1PM51 (description says additional PM ops)

• Gus.chong

  22 Oct 15, 22:46

  Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:

  From Dec onwards, sv 194 should be getting DDs.

  I would rather think just fleet add of single-decks since it will be operating full day with better frequency.

• BusAnalayzer

  23 Oct 15, 16:39

  Originally posted by Gus.chong:

  I would rather think just fleet add of single-decks since it will be operating full day with better frequency.

  Depends coz 251 would get considerable load from Jalan Ahmed to Boon Lay. And 194 also during PM peak will have enough load from bird park. May first start with SD fleet add, and then if required may get upgraded.

• BusAnalayzer

  23 Oct 15, 21:53

  sv 506 got a third DD... all in sequence 3855, 3856 and 3857.

  sv 518 also has 3 DDs (but for some time now)

  just sv 502 is still operating with only 2 DDs (thought should have also got few upgrades)

• BusAnalayzer

  23 Oct 15, 21:55

  89e is now full fleet DD, earlier only 2 DDs, 3 SDs... all 3 SD slots converted to DD