New Premium Service Loop from YCK Rd to Orchard
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Originally posted by SBS2692R:
yeah saw people standing at S'goon Gardens bus stop with a poster "Express 731",
S'goon gardens to Far East Plaza Orchard, come over for more details. Something like that.
Those are my fellow colleagues. They promoting the service at Serangoon just now. Later in the day (sunday), they will be there to promote the service there. Today, Sv 731 have an acceptable demand for it's first day.Basically, this service is ran by Blackliner, a limo service company which offers limo rental of Audi A6s and Vito. The boss is a young entrepenuer which runs the company while studying in University. I can say that this company has the potential to go far. The service uses only one Mercedes Benz Sprinter painted in plain black. The company runs two services; Sv 731 (as mentioned in this thread) and Sv 728 which runs from Fidelo Street to Shenton Way in the morning.
For the fares, it will be $3. Ez-link card payment is accepted onboard. Sv 731 will run one bus per hour stopping at Heereen, Far East Plaza, Macdonald's House and Suntec City. It operates on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays.
Come support our new service.
I'm doing additional advertising for this new service to reach out to the bus fans and i am not required by my boss to do it.
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Originally posted by tintinspartan:
Those are my fellow colleagues. They promoting the service at Serangoon just now. Later in the day (sunday), they will be there to promote the service there. Today, Sv 731 have an acceptable demand for it's first day.Basically, this service is ran by Blackliner, a limo service company which offers limo rental of Audi A6s and Vito. The boss is a young entrepenuer which runs the company while studying in University. I can say that this company has the potential to go far. The service uses only one Mercedes Benz Sprinter painted in plain black. The company runs two services; Sv 731 (as mentioned in this thread) and Sv 728 which runs from Fidelo Street to Shenton Way in the morning.
For the fares, it will be $3. Ez-link card payment is accepted onboard. Sv 731 will run one bus per hour stopping at Heereen, Far East Plaza, Macdonald's House and Suntec City. It operates on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays.
Come support our new service.
I'm doing additional advertising for this new service to reach out to the bus fans and i am not required by my boss to do it.
You mean only one bus was allocated to run 731? Meaning that the bus would not be able to rest and need to start from opp 139 after it terminating at os 138?
Cheers.
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Originally posted by SGCar:
You mean only one bus was allocated to run 731? Meaning that the bus would not be able to rest and need to start from opp 139 after it terminating at os 138?
Cheers.
Check the timetable posted on page 1. It's 1 bus, but there's a ~12 min rest after every trip.
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Originally posted by tintinspartan:
Come support our new service.
how to support when i dont live next to its route? -
Originally posted by service_238:
how to support when i dont live next to its route?
Kena pawned.
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Originally posted by service_238:
how to support when i dont live next to its route?Go joyride.
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Ask your boss to intro one from Bt Panjang area to Orchard and back to Bt Panjang, I will support!
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Originally posted by SBS5200H:
Go joyride.
joyriding on that service earns them 3 bucks of revenue, while a regular commuter can potentially earn them many more times of that 3 bucks. Which one is more worth promoting to? -
Originally posted by service_238:
joyriding on that service earns them 3 bucks of revenue, while a regular commuter can potentially earn them many more times of that 3 bucks. Which one is more worth promoting to?A regular customer. But you can try giving discounts first, to attract potential ppl.
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Took Premium 731 to Far East Plaza just now. All I can say was fast. But passengers rate quite poor, only me, my wife, and another young fella who boarded the bus at S'goon Gdn. The return trip back at night was worse, only both me and my wife, as if bus was chartered by us.
Interior
Seat
Very comfortable journey, worth taking.
Cheers.
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Originally posted by SGCar:
Took Premium 731 to Far East Plaza just now. All I can say was fast. But passengers rate quite poor, only me, my wife, and another young fella who boarded the bus at S'goon Gdn. The return trip back at night was worse, only both me and my wife, as if bus was chartered by us.
Interior
Seat
Very comfortable journey, worth taking.
Cheers.
Hey man,
Thank you for riding Sv 731.
Basically, Service 731 has been recieving lack of ridership and they are currently considering scrapping the service if this goes on after 6 months. There are times that I was the only pax on the bus. Both the sat and sun perm drivers mentioned the poor ridership to me when i was joyriding the bus last month. It is common for the service to get zero passengers per trip.
Again, thanks for riding and on behalf of Blackliner and flydirectbus, the company which runs this service, we hope you continue supporting this service.
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Originally posted by tintinspartan:
Hey man,
Thank you for riding Sv 731.
Basically, Service 731 has been recieving lack of ridership and they are currently considering scrapping the service if this goes on after 6 months. There are times that I was the only pax on the bus. Both the sat and sun perm drivers mentioned the poor ridership to me when i was joyriding the bus last month. It is common for the service to get zero passengers per trip.
Again, thanks for riding and on behalf of Blackliner and flydirectbus, the company which runs this service, we hope you continue supporting this service.
U should pay for your joyrides too.
Instead of asking for free rides from drivers. -
Seriously, im not surprised that theres a lack of ridership for this service. Freq is irregular and u cant find a single timetable at the bus stops.
To make things worst, buses dont arrive on time. There was once when i waited 10mins before the published timings on their website and yet i missed the bus.
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Originally posted by tintinspartan:
Hey man,
Thank you for riding Sv 731.
Basically, Service 731 has been recieving lack of ridership and they are currently considering scrapping the service if this goes on after 6 months. There are times that I was the only pax on the bus. Both the sat and sun perm drivers mentioned the poor ridership to me when i was joyriding the bus last month. It is common for the service to get zero passengers per trip.
Again, thanks for riding and on behalf of Blackliner and flydirectbus, the company which runs this service, we hope you continue supporting this service.
Very comfortable ride, very sad if it'll be withdrawn. My feedback in order to improve this service would be;
1) Change the interval from 1h10m to 30mins
2) Display timetable and route info at bus-stop
3) Put up ad/info on Aljunied Town Council newslettler (do note that S'goon North, Toho Dr and S'goon Gdn belongs to ATC), and also post on HDB flats notice board and neighbourhood
Although bus no. already displayed on bus-stop poles, but no one would know the existence of this service. Maybe you can help me feedback to your friends in order to improve this service.
Cheers.
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Originally posted by sBs_boy:
Seriously, im not surprised that theres a lack of ridership for this service. Freq is irregular and u cant find a single timetable at the bus stops.
To make things worst, buses dont arrive on time. There was once when i waited 10mins before the published timings on their website and yet i missed the bus.
Yesterday schedule was accurate, I took it opp 139 at 1510hrs sharp, and reached Far East Plaza at 1540 due to jammed at CTE. Return trip was late by 5 mins when I boarded it at Far East Plaza at 2135hrs, which actual arrival time was stated 2129hrs. Do note that 731 had to skipped Suntec on Sat due to NDP rehearsal.Cheers.
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Originally posted by SGCar: Very comfortable ride, very sad if it'll be withdrawn. My feedback in order to improve this service would be;
1) Change the interval from 1h10m to 30mins
2) Display timetable and route info at bus-stop
3) Put up ad/info on Aljunied Town Council newslettler (do note that S'goon North, Toho Dr and S'goon Gdn belongs to ATC), and also post on HDB flats notice board and neighbourhood
Although bus no. already displayed on bus-stop poles, but no one would know the existence of this service. Maybe you can help me feedback to your friends in order to improve this service.
Cheers.
Hi,
Thanks for feedback given. Your feedback has been forwarded to the managing director for consideration. I will get back to you regarding the feedback.