Bus Observations (2010)

• AEW5001

  24 Jul 10, 19:51

  SBS7333U rear rego plate is the old-type.

• AEW5001

  24 Jul 10, 19:51

  Originally posted by TIB770T:

  SBS9214S got restickered livery and ultra shiny silver rims

  TIB1070Z's articulator curtain got scotch tape pasted over the holes

  
  some of the former SL HG 161's oso had it.

• Veyron16.4

  24 Jul 10, 19:54

  One RWS private bus displayed: Ang Mo Kio Depot/ Bishan on a small desto in front of the windscreen. Is the private bus going to SBST's AMDEP or SMRT's AMDEP?

• AEW5001

  24 Jul 10, 19:56

  Originally posted by Veyron16.4:

  One RWS private bus displayed: Ang Mo Kio Depot/ Bishan on a small desto in front of the windscreen. Is the private bus going to SBST's AMDEP or SMRT's AMDEP?

  
  no.

• 105090

  24 Jul 10, 20:46

  i observed that 160/170 frequency on Saturdays especially, is terrible.. can wait <10 minutes for any variant to come, and thats on 10am.
  meanwhile, CW buses spam the bus bays , and today, 950 bunched up with 3 buses back to Woodlands.. end up when i see the 3rd 950 coming within 2 minutes of the first, i just took it...

  
  Whats happening SBS???????
  see traffic jam dont want to sent out buses?  

• TIB657M

  24 Jul 10, 20:49

  Originally posted by 105090:

  i observed that 160/170 frequency on Saturdays especially, is terrible.. can wait <10 minutes for any variant to come, and thats on 10am.
  meanwhile, CW buses spam the bus bays , and today, 950 bunched up with 3 buses back to Woodlands.. end up when i see the 3rd 950 coming within 2 minutes of the first, i just took it...

  
  Whats happening SBS???????
  see traffic jam dont want to sent out buses?  

  
  You try to wait for 160 (from JB) for 1 bus (more than 30 minutes de)

  I think because of big jam for to and fro directions de.

• AEW5001

  24 Jul 10, 20:51

  Originally posted by TIB657M:

  
  You try to wait for 160 (from JB) for 1 bus (more than 30 minutes de)

  I think because of big jam for to and fro directions de.

  
  which part of JB?

  Kotaraya or JB CIQ?

• TIB657M

  24 Jul 10, 20:54

  Originally posted by AEW5001:

  
  which part of JB?

  Kotaraya or JB CIQ?

  
  JB CIQ (and Woodlands Checkpoint) back to CIty de.

• TIB657M

  24 Jul 10, 20:54

  Originally posted by AEW5001:

  
  which part of JB?

  Kotaraya or JB CIQ?

  
  JB CIQ (and Woodlands Checkpoint) back to CIty de.

• AEW5001

  24 Jul 10, 20:57

  if it's JB customs, approx 5 mins can get 1 bus liao

  if at WDL checkpoint, it's another story altogether.

• SBS8730A

  24 Jul 10, 22:10

  Spolit side EDS for SBS8483M running 410W at Bishan int

• sbst275

  25 Jul 10, 09:22

  Originally posted by 105090:

  i observed that 160/170 frequency on Saturdays especially, is terrible.. can wait <10 minutes for any variant to come, and thats on 10am.
  meanwhile, CW buses spam the bus bays , and today, 950 bunched up with 3 buses back to Woodlands.. end up when i see the 3rd 950 coming within 2 minutes of the first, i just took it...

  
  Whats happening SBS???????
  see traffic jam dont want to sent out buses?  

  Seriously if I did not remember wrongly, 170's Sat's freq isn't very good. Weekday & Sun not tat as bad.

  As for 3x 950 brunching, obviously somewhere buses got stucked, someone must have been waiting for 30 - 45 mins in between. It's macham a cycle.

  CW? It all depends. Off peak you can't find them. Peak hr been hearing going to Larkin is a nag, CW more concentrated bet KRJ & JB CIQ nia. Even CW2 probably mostly does is CIQ <> Queen St nia.

• 105090

  25 Jul 10, 10:04

  is there some funny thing going on between 160/170/CW?

  JB bound:
  with CW disappearing after JB CIQ, CW passengers wait till sian, board 170 to Larkin.
  160/170 passengers, transferred from MRT, gets DBTF. wait so long at Woodlands CIQ, and board CW instead.. paying double..
  
  Yesterday and some saturdays ago.. 30minutes passed and only 1x 170red, 1x160 and 2x 170b came.. 
  
  last time SBS even boasted "every 3 minutes", its buses departs to JB..

• sbst275

  25 Jul 10, 10:09

  Originally posted by 105090:

  is there some funny thing going on between 160/170/CW?

  JB bound:
  with CW disappearing after JB CIQ, CW passengers wait till sian, board 170 to Larkin.
  160/170 passengers, transferred from MRT, gets DBTF. wait so long at Woodlands CIQ, and board CW instead.. paying double..
  
  Yesterday and some saturdays ago.. 30minutes passed and only 1x 170red, 1x160 and 2x 170b came.. 
  
  last time SBS even boasted "every 3 minutes", its buses departs to JB..

  
  1 thing lots of things over schedule has changed since new JB CIQ was used. Travelling mileage has increased greatly.

  As w/ over 30 mins block, like I've said there's always 1 gp wait till sian, 1 gp got buses keep on arriving.. It all depends on e traffic jam cycle.

  Like visualise tis. To JB alrdy jam terribly, return to SIN if it's not really jam can still catch up. But if both sides terribly jammed, horse can't run.

  By the time tis trip makes its trip to JB again, maybe lag behind front bus by probably 20 mins for all we may know.

• AEW5001

  25 Jul 10, 11:40

  btw e slip road after exiting JB customs towards Woodlands customs is very tight and can easily lead up to massive delays

• sbst275

  25 Jul 10, 11:43

  Originally posted by AEW5001:

  btw e slip road after exiting JB customs towards Woodlands customs is very tight and can easily lead up to massive delays

  
  no more bus lane.

• AEW5001

  25 Jul 10, 11:44

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  
  no more bus lane.

  
  e cars, motorcycles and buses all come together and share that common road

  have got to wait for some of the flyovers that are still being constructed to be complete.

• sinicker

  25 Jul 10, 11:52

  Originally posted by AEW5001:

  have got to wait for some of the flyovers that are still being constructed to be complete.

  that flyover ah... so long already.

• AEW5001

  25 Jul 10, 11:53

  that's how they build - malaysian style.

  few cranes there, unlike sg.

  1 small piece of site in sg can have 4 cranes or more liaos

• sbst275

  25 Jul 10, 11:55

  tat one I think was for e crooked bridge - Dr M's pet project to drain and make M'sia bankrupt.

• AEW5001

  25 Jul 10, 11:58

  i don't tink so

  e current flyover being used is more like a temp diversion.

• TIB657M

  25 Jul 10, 14:37

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  As for 3x 950 brunching, obviously somewhere buses got stucked, someone must have been waiting for 30 - 45 mins in between. It's macham a cycle.

  
  It is an obovious that if you wait for that particular service (please count out 518, 188R and 963R) for about this range which you had mentioned just now (during that day), for sure 3 to 4 buses will bunch up together.

• sbst275

  25 Jul 10, 17:11

  Originally posted by TIB657M:

  
  It is an obovious that if you wait for that particular service (please count out 518, 188R and 963R) for about this range which you had mentioned just now (during that day), for sure 3 to 4 buses will bunch up together.

  
  Freq has nothing to do w/ number of buses tat brunches esp for CBS.

  CBS traffic condition is so erratic tat the waiting time can be lopsided. Factors like sudden impulse number of buses like Bas Kilang into e CIQ.

  It can be something like 5 - 10 - 45 - 0 - 0 - 15 - 10 - 7 - 5 - 10.

   

• SBS9C

  25 Jul 10, 17:13

  Originally posted by TIB1051D:

  moved? it is originally there. and 997A always have that smell, fyi.

  This is the original location of the bus stopping sign:

  http://www.sgbuses.com/v/sbst/b10m-mk4dm1/b10m-long/SBS997A-Int-Front.JPG.html

• SBS9C

  25 Jul 10, 17:16

  I have noticed that the tvmobiles on most(all?) BNDEP(any other depots?) buses has already been removed.