Optimum Utilization of Double Deckers

• BusAnalayzer

  14 Jul 12, 11:11

  Keep it a healthy debate guys. I am happy to read your comments where you think I am wrong. Just that keep it healthy! We don't know each other here, it is a virtual world. So let's not get personal and comment beyond the bus routes.

  Cheers!

• BusAnalayzer

  14 Jul 12, 22:27

  Completing my list... :D

  179 - HHL

  181 - HL

  182 - HL

  185 - L (one-direction), ML (opposite direction)

  186 - HL (only morning peak towards Shenton way), ML otherwise

  191 - L, Empty opposite side

  192 - HL 

  193 - HL

  196 - HL (one direction), L (opposite direction)

  197 - HL (one direction), L (opposite direction)

  198 - HL (one direction), ML (opposite direction, though HL till where 198 A plies)

  199 - HL

  222 - L

  All JIS routes - HL (one direction), ML (opposite direction)

  291 - HL (DDs very well utilized on feeder)

  334 - HL (DDs very well utilized on feeder)

  :)) 

• BusAnalayzer

  16 Jul 12, 09:55

  Originally posted by TIB1218R:

  Svc 5 don't have DDs on weekends, but 109 have. Don't know what's wrong with SBST..

  
  Svc 5 fleet has changed on weekends. I saw 3 DDs in a span of 30 minutes, when I was with a friend at Tiong Bahru Cafe. Good news for you... :)

• SBS 1000U

  16 Jul 12, 21:49

  Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:

  
  Svc 5 fleet has changed on weekends. I saw 3 DDs in a span of 30 minutes, when I was with a friend at Tiong Bahru Cafe. Good news for you... :)

  
  I saw a few DDs on 5 during weekends. Who says don't have???

• carbikebus

  17 Jul 12, 00:07

  SBST did a great job deploy DDs on 222/291.The DDs on this route are well utilised.

• BusAnalayzer

  17 Jul 12, 09:00

  Originally posted by SBS 1000U:

  
  I saw a few DDs on 5 during weekends. Who says don't have???

  
  This is new. Even sgwiki fleet deployment is not updated and states no DDs on Sat and only 1 on Sun for route 5. But this has changed this week.

• BusAnalayzer

  17 Jul 12, 09:01

  Originally posted by carbikebus:

  SBST did a great job deploy DDs on 222/291.The DDs on this route are well utilised.

  
  I agree. Esp 291 the DDs are really well utilized and help to clear the long queues. How about few DDs on 293? Would that work too? The queues for 293 also seem quite long.

• SBS 1000U

  24 Jul 12, 23:37

  Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:

  
  This is new. Even sgwiki fleet deployment is not updated and states no DDs on Sat and only 1 on Sun for route 5. But this has changed this week.

  
  I don't know about sgwiki fleet deployment but seeing it with your own eyes is believeing.

  Anyway, the response of 43A seems good.

• SBS2656X

  25 Jul 12, 08:10

  Originally posted by SBS 1000U:

  
  I don't know about sgwiki fleet deployment but seeing it with your own eyes is believeing.

  Anyway, the response of 43A seems good.

  Yeah. Just saw SBS3050L getting packed to the brim 

• BusAnalayzer

  31 Jul 12, 10:50

  Unfortunately, whenever I use a 43 DD, it is always empty :( But I see 3 more new DDs added to 43, making it 7 DDs and also 43A is introduced.

  So I am sure, I am always unfortunate to catch the DD at a wrong time or in a wrong area.

  Yesterday, I took 43 DD from YCK Blk 138 to Buangkok Green at 7.30 pm - empty only 30 pax. A week before I had taken it from Paya Laber station to Upp Serangoon road, again only 50 pax.

  By the way, I prefer to use a DD to a SD anyday - just because it is so grand!!! :D

• SBS2656X

  31 Jul 12, 15:15

  Consider my Service 117/117X and Premium 444 in the party? 

  
  Lost? Click here!

• TIB1218R

  31 Jul 12, 15:18

  Okay, 4 DDs on 86 today. Hope that more DDs will perm on 86 like last time when under HGDEP..

• TIB1218R

  31 Jul 12, 15:19

  Originally posted by SBS2656X:

  Consider my 117/117X in the party? 
  
  Lost? Click here!

  
  
  

• SBS2656X

  31 Jul 12, 15:26

  Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:

  Unfortunately, whenever I use a 43 DD, it is always empty :( But I see 3 more new DDs added to 43, making it 7 DDs and also 43A is introduced.

  So I am sure, I am always unfortunate to catch the DD at a wrong time or in a wrong area.

  Yesterday, I took 43 DD from YCK Blk 138 to Buangkok Green at 7.30 pm - empty only 30 pax. A week before I had taken it from Paya Laber station to Upp Serangoon road, again only 50 pax.

  By the way, I prefer to use a DD to a SD anyday - just because it is so grand!!! :D

  43's case is, again, AM Peak and PM Peak. Since it plied 2 major MRT Stations, Serangoon and Paya Lebar, and plies neighbourhood areas like Hougang, Sengkang and East Coast and Marine Parade. No doubt that 43's cashcow period is during peak hours and a Luck Factor - for Hougang and Sengkang area, it is about whether 156 is in front of it or not. For Buangkok and Serangoon Area, it changes, to 76 and 70/70M.

• SBS2656X

  31 Jul 12, 15:51

  Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:

  Completing my list... :D

  179 - HHL

  181 - HL

  182 - HL

  185 - L (one-direction), ML (opposite direction)

  186 - HL (only morning peak towards Shenton way), ML otherwise

  191 - L, Empty opposite side

  192 - HL 

  193 - HL

  196 - HL (one direction), L (opposite direction)

  197 - HL (one direction), L (opposite direction)

  198 - HL (one direction), ML (opposite direction, though HL till where 198 A plies)

  199 - HL

  222 - L

  All JIS routes - HL (one direction), ML (opposite direction)

  291 - HL (DDs very well utilized on feeder)

  334 - HL (DDs very well utilized on feeder)

  :)) 

  Frequency never changed, 5 buses bunches up in 1 go, of course this svc is HL...

• vicamour

  31 Jul 12, 23:16

  Originally posted by TIB1218R:

  Okay, 4 DDs on 86 today. Hope that more DDs will perm on 86 like last time when under HGDEP..

  
  It depends on the demand. 86 demand is very high during peak hours.

• BusAnalayzer

  1 Aug 12, 10:31

  Originally posted by TIB1218R:

  Okay, 4 DDs on 86 today. Hope that more DDs will perm on 86 like last time when under HGDEP..

  
  What??? 4 DDs on 86.. that's news... As of now there were only 2 PERM... Where is the high loading on 86? 70 is parallel to it until Jalan Kayu from YCK and takes most of the MRT load is what I have observed.

• TIB1218R

  1 Aug 12, 10:57

  Now, there's 4 DDs on 86. Highest loading between Rivervale Drive and YCK Station in morning. Evening is AMK to Rivervale..

  
  It used to have 9 DDs in the past..

• BusAnalayzer

  1 Aug 12, 15:42

  Originally posted by TIB1218R:

  Now, there's 4 DDs on 86. Highest loading between Rivervale Drive and YCK Station in morning. Evening is AMK to Rivervale..

  
  It used to have 9 DDs in the past..

  It is a good trend to see more DDs added on 86, 163 as they actually cover point-to-point and there are very few parallel routes for passengers. Hence, if a 86 comes full and ppl cannot get in, they have to wait for the next 12 mins for the next bus which can be quite troublesome.

• SBS2656X

  1 Aug 12, 19:23

  @BusAnalyzer, How about my Service 117/117X in here? How do you like it? 

• Lee Teuk

  1 Aug 12, 19:35

  a few years ago the authorities actually approve SBS to operate route 117 to go to SMRT areas, right? but it never materialized

• SBS2656X

  1 Aug 12, 19:38

  Originally posted by Lee Teuk:

  a few years ago the authorities actually approve SBS to operate route 117 to go to SMRT areas, right? but it never materialized

  There is 170 which passes through SMRT areas 

• TIB1218R

  1 Aug 12, 20:09

  Originally posted by Lee Teuk:

  a few years ago the authorities actually approve SBS to operate route 117 to go to SMRT areas, right? but it never materialized

  Yeah 117 from Hougang Central to Bukit Batok..

• SBS2656X

  1 Aug 12, 21:22

  Originally posted by TIB1218R:

  Yeah 117 from Hougang Central to Bukit Batok..

  But why didn't it materialize yet? Maybe waiting for e new buses coming in? Or introduce my 117 instead? 

• vicamour

  1 Aug 12, 22:06

  Originally posted by Lee Teuk:

  a few years ago the authorities actually approve SBS to operate route 117 to go to SMRT areas, right? but it never materialized

  
  I hope it will be materialised.

  Bukit Panjang really need a SBST bus route.