New Premium Bus Services (Post It Here)

• Junyang700

  6 Jan 10, 22:38

  
  
  Saw this poster at the bus stop along Bukit Panjang Road today.
  
  Anybody saw any notice of other new premium services around?

• phillipC

  10 Jan 10, 14:13

  Whoa. Not sure how the demand like tmr. Is relatively cheaper compare with SBST Premium 555.

• Junyang700

  10 Jan 10, 14:45

  But it runs only in the PM Peak from CBD to Bukit Panjang.
  
  Premium 555 runs in the AM Peak from Bukit Panjang to CBD.

• ahjack 77

  11 Jan 10, 00:38

  Premium 723

  > Buangkok Green to Upp Cross St (Morning Peak)
  > Raffles Quay to Buangkok Green (Evening Peak)

  Direction 1 (AM Peak)

  Via
  Buangkok Green (Blk 565)
  Hougang Ave 4/8/2
  Ang Mo Kio Ave 3
  CTE (Express)
  Upp Pickering St
  Church St
  Shenton Way
  Palmer Rd (Express)
  Anson Rd
  Cecil St
  Cross St

  Terminates at Upp Cross St (Opp Hong Lim Cplx)

  Direction 2 (PM Peak)

  Via
  Raffles Quay
  Shenton Way
  Palmer Rd (Express)
  Anson Rd
  Cecil St
  Cross St
  Upp Cross St
  CTE (Express)
  Ang Mo Kio Ave 3
  Hougang Ave 2/8/4

  Terminates at Buangkok Green (Opp Blk 565)

  Fare Details: Unknown

  *Duplicating " Did you Know..?" post.

• ahjack 77

  11 Jan 10, 00:39

  Premium 591

  > Punggol Rd to Anson Rd (Morning Peak)
  > Anson Rd to Punggol Rd (Evening Peak)

  Direction 1 (AM Peak)

  Via
  Punggol Rd (Blk 604)
  Punggol Field
  Sengkang East Drive
  KPE (Express)
  Nicoll Highway
  Collyer Quay
  Shenton Way

  Terminate at Anson Rd (Hub Synergy Pt)

  Direction 2 (PM Peak)

  Via
  Anson Rd
  Robinson Rd
  Fullerton Rd
  Esplanade Dr
  Nicoll Highway
  KPE (Express)
  Sengkang East Dr
  Punggol Field

  Terminate at Punggol Road (Opp Punggol Port Rd)

  Fare Details: $4.00

• Junyang700

  11 Jan 10, 00:42

  The new routes by the private operators are what the commuters and mass public want, rather than those premium services that SBST and SMRT are trying to introduce, with the aim to make frequencies poorer and push commuters to board premium services with no comfort initiatives attempted to make our rides more pleasant.

• ahjack 77

  11 Jan 10, 00:45

  Premium 592

  > Sengkang West Ave to Anson Road (Morning Peak)
  > Anson Road to Sengkang West Ave (Evening Peak)

  Direction 1 (AM Peak)

  Via
  Sengkang West Ave (Aft Fernvale Lane)
  Sengkang East Ave
  Anchorvale Drive
  Sengkang East Ave
  Punggol Road
  KPE (Express)
  Nicoll Highway
  Collyer Quay
  Shenton Way

  Terminate at Anson Rd (Hub Synergy Pt)

  Direction 2 (PM Peak)

  Via
  Anson Rd
  Robinson Rd
  Fullerton Rd
  Esplanade Dr
  Nicoll Highway
  KPE (Express)
  

  Punggol Road
  Sengkang East Ave
  Anchorvale Drive
  Sengkang East Ave
  
  Terminating at Sengkang West Ave (Bef Fernvale Lane)

  Fare: $4.00

• ^tamago^

  11 Jan 10, 09:23

  Originally posted by Junyang700:

  The new routes by the private operators are what the commuters and mass public want, rather than those premium services that SBST and SMRT are trying to introduce, with the aim to make frequencies poorer and push commuters to board premium services with no comfort initiatives attempted to make our rides more pleasant.

  they don't make the frequency poorer, really. imagine, if a service arrives at a heartland interchange/terminal just before 8am, it won't help much to have it turn back towards town if the aim is to arrive before 9am. and that's when running a direct-to-town premium service represents the best use of bussing resources.

• Junyang700

  12 Jan 10, 01:28

  Originally posted by ^tamago^:

  they don't make the frequency poorer, really. imagine, if a service arrives at a heartland interchange/terminal just before 8am, it won't help much to have it turn back towards town if the aim is to arrive before 9am. and that's when running a direct-to-town premium service represents the best use of bussing resources.

  Get your point to some extent.
  
  But I do see some obvious tactics.
  
  Side-track a bit.
  Like NR3 will always arrive before 190 and 700A on Fridays and Saturdays to lure people to take Nightrider on the presumption that there are no more basic services.
  
  74e and 151e will always arrive before basic services 74 and 151 so that students will choose the fast forward service over the basic.
  
  And I believe if demand is good for premium services, they will start providing better frequencies for premium services and deploy lesser buses for basic services.

• sinicker

  12 Jan 10, 09:56

  good to see players utilising the KPE.
  
  we cant expect people to use the NEL everyday. and this gives them a direct office home mode of transport, seated.

• phillipC

  12 Jan 10, 18:07

  The load of 722 doesn't look good, maybe is still new.

• phillipC

  12 Jan 10, 18:07

  duplicated, deleted

• Junyang700

  16 Jan 10, 00:25

  
  
  Bus load for 1st trip of 722 is pretty good today. I guess there were about 20 pax on the bus after some alighted at the 1st stop of Bukit Panjang.

• sbst275

  16 Jan 10, 00:32

  Originally posted by Junyang700:

  Get your point to some extent.
  
  But I do see some obvious tactics.
  
  Side-track a bit.
  Like NR3 will always arrive before 190 and 700A on Fridays and Saturdays to lure people to take Nightrider on the presumption that there are no more basic services.
  
  74e and 151e will always arrive before basic services 74 and 151 so that students will choose the fast forward service over the basic.
  
  And I believe if demand is good for premium services, they will start providing better frequencies for premium services and deploy lesser buses for basic services.

  
  NR svs begins at 2330 because many of e SMRT's CBD svs last bus is at 2330 or 2345.

  74e & 151e has their own indep allocated schedule and departure timing vs the normal svs beginning 0530/ 0545 resp.

  The PTOs has the QoS for basic svs to meet. Priority is still to basic svs.