Striders on CLE Feeders
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why are there striders on CLE feeders... are they split shift buses, perms or culled from other services??
shouldnt these buses be deployed on trunks tt BBDEP control? -
What makes you think that feeder services cannot have striders?Originally posted by SBST390:why are there striders on CLE feeders... are they split shift buses, perms or culled from other services??
shouldnt these buses be deployed on trunks tt BBDEP control?
Most of them are on service 282 and seems to be perm or are already perm. They are here to replace the Mk2 WA buses. Striders have also been deployed on services 284 and 285 before. -
Yes, look at the SMRT feeders, Woodlands and Yishun have even newer Habits than the trunk services, most of the Volgren bendies are on Woodlands feeders. BBT feeders have nice Hino Volgrens.
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Its not fair, why do feeders get most of the 12XX habits and ALL except two or three volgren bendies? Trunk svcs should get them instead. So, here we are, with 960,190,851,etc getting 11XX and 10XX habits and even the 8XX 9XX onez, and the feeders get the new ones? Wheres the fairness? This brings me to think of the type of buses we get at svc 410! MB0405s! What unfairness! In my opinion, if WDL and YIS feeders can get nice buses, svcs like 238 and 410 shud get VSOs or even the new, unreleased B10BLE CNGs!Originally posted by leeJZ:Yes, look at the SMRT feeders, Woodlands and Yishun have even newer Habits than the trunk services, most of the Volgren bendies are on Woodlands feeders. BBT feeders have nice Hino Volgrens. -
Seems like SMRT likes their feeder services (WDL has what 6 feeders / townlinks??) and likes putting all the new buses on them while SBST on the other hand refrain from introducing feeders and instead even removing them (by merging ie 3Originally posted by SBS9845X:Its not fair, why do feeders get most of the 12XX habits and ALL except two or three volgren bendies? Trunk svcs should get them instead. So, here we are, with 960,190,851,etc getting 11XX and 10XX habits and even the 8XX 9XX onez, and the feeders get the new ones? Wheres the fairness? This brings me to think of the type of buses we get at svc 410! MB0405s! What unfairness! In my opinion, if WDL and YIS feeders can get nice buses, svcs like 238 and 410 shud get VSOs or even the new, unreleased B10BLE CNGs!
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Not really, 38 is inter town BTWOriginally posted by leeJZ:Seems like SMRT likes their feeder services (WDL has what 6 feeders / townlinks??) and likes putting all the new buses on them while SBST on the other hand refrain from introducing feeders and instead even removing them (by merging ie 3. -
410 unless frequency is 10 mins like last time. 238 cannot as it is ultra frequentOriginally posted by SBS9845X:Its not fair, why do feeders get most of the 12XX habits and ALL except two or three volgren bendies? Trunk svcs should get them instead. So, here we are, with 960,190,851,etc getting 11XX and 10XX habits and even the 8XX 9XX onez, and the feeders get the new ones? Wheres the fairness? This brings me to think of the type of buses we get at svc 410! MB0405s! What unfairness! In my opinion, if WDL and YIS feeders can get nice buses, svcs like 238 and 410 shud get VSOs or even the new, unreleased B10BLE CNGs! -
Why I say this is that many svs does get slightly longer headways after getting double decksOriginally posted by sbst275:410 unless frequency is 10 mins like last time. 238 cannot as it is ultra frequent
As for YIS and WDL feeders, the frequency is bad though buses are better.
YIS
800: 8-10 min
804: 4-7 min
806: 4-10 min
811: 7-10 min
812: 8-10 min
WDL
900: 6-9 min
901: 9-11 min
903: 4-8 min
911: 6-9 min
912: 7-11 min
913: 5-8 min
Look at SBS side
225: 2-5 min
238: 2-6 min
242: 1-4 min
261: 4-6 min
265: 4-8 min
291: 2-5 min
See the dif, though others like 262, 272, 274, 275, 282, 285, 292, 317 may be poorly served -
smrt buses like to put their newer buses on feeders probably cos their reach in the downtown area is not as wide as sbst thus they might as well save it on 'entertaining' their own turf's residents with new buses.
sbst have the habit, imo, of showing off their new buses on "prominent" or high load svcs, like striders making their debut on 16 & 67, VSOs on woodlands svcs & 133, Volvo B10BLE-CNG buses on 105.
actually smrt buses does/did put some of their newer 1148+ & 12xx buses on trunk services (cameo/ wkend cameo or perm), for example 67, 169, 180, 187, 188, 190, 700, 851, 960, 963 & 969, especially 180, 963 & 969.
also, Mk4 striders are destined to be the replacement for Mk3's for its 170 JB-bound svc. thus do expect some tapering of their deployment significance gradually throughtout the next few years. thus, i expect Mk4 strider perms on feeder svcs (especially bbdep areas like jurong east, boon lay, clementi, buona vista) will become more common in the future. -
er... BBDEP and ARBP controls Clementi kent ridge buona vista kent ridge and bt merah.Originally posted by ^tamago^:smrt buses like to put their newer buses on feeders probably cos their reach in the downtown area is not as wide as sbst thus they might as well save it on 'entertaining' their own turf's residents with new buses.
sbst have the habit, imo, of showing off their new buses on "prominent" or high load svcs, like striders making their debut on 16 & 67, VSOs on woodlands svcs & 133, Volvo B10BLE-CNG buses on 105.
actually smrt buses does/did put some of their newer 1148+ & 12xx buses on trunk services (cameo/ wkend cameo or perm), for example 67, 169, 180, 187, 188, 190, 700, 851, 960, 963 & 969, especially 180, 963 & 969.
also, Mk4 striders are destined to be the replacement for Mk3's for its 170 JB-bound svc. thus do expect some tapering of their deployment significance gradually throughtout the next few years. thus, i expect Mk4 strider perms on feeder svcs (especially bbdep areas like jurong east, boon lay, clementi, buona vista) will become more common in the future.
I reckon the mk3s to be around for the next 7-8 years before the Striders take over. Scarly only 3 years... laughers -
You can say so.Originally posted by ^tamago^:smrt buses like to put their newer buses on feeders probably cos their reach in the downtown area is not as wide as sbst thus they might as well save it on 'entertaining' their own turf's residents with new buses.
sbst have the habit, imo, of showing off their new buses on "prominent" or high load svcs, like striders making their debut on 16 & 67, VSOs on woodlands svcs & 133, Volvo B10BLE-CNG buses on 105.
actually smrt buses does/did put some of their newer 1148+ & 12xx buses on trunk services (cameo/ wkend cameo or perm), for example 67, 169, 180, 187, 188, 190, 700, 851, 960, 963 & 969, especially 180, 963 & 969.
also, Mk4 striders are destined to be the replacement for Mk3's for its 170 JB-bound svc. thus do expect some tapering of their deployment significance gradually throughtout the next few years. thus, i expect Mk4 strider perms on feeder svcs (especially bbdep areas like jurong east, boon lay, clementi, buona vista) will become more common in the future.
As for good buses, it may not be totally true after all...