The Bendy Bus Fan Club (Part II)
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Originally posted by SBS2601D:
Pictures of bendies from me. And stories to tell from my visit to where I used to live at.
Bendy blocking bendy, which in turn was blocking the road. Why? Because of WRI SLs' habit of leaving the bus at the bay while reporting to the control station. It's a common scene across most interchanges, but particularly bad at WRI as practically EVERY SL does that. The result? This picture shows a bus held up by such an act, the SL who was blocked was furiously honking away as honks came from the buses behind that were blocked.
Think this is an isolated case of how troublesome bendies are? Think again. The flash of bus at the extreme right is from a bus that is inching its way past the bendies. Low lighting at night meant that any small movement = blur = appears fast. If anything, look at how the bendy that was blocking the way cooperated by parking as close as possible to the 1st bus, and how tight the space was left for the 3rd bus to pass.
Bendies bendies everywhere. Parked here there everywhere. I lived at Woodlands till 1999 and I was appalled at what had happened to WRI. Chaos everywhere.
The SL hogging bus-bay problem had always been there since day 1. But the problem has gone out of control with the influx of bendies (1999 saw only box bendies) and the increased fleet size and crowds. Mind you, the last picture was taken at 9pm. There were plenty of bus-lots outside, but nobody wants to walk the 200m to and 200m fro to the main part of the interchange, hence all the haphazard parking.
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And then my 169 came, I was glad. I looked forward to a ride on 0405, but I regretted it almost immediately.
I left the bus, 812G, at Yishun because I was very sure that the bus wasn't going to make it to AMK. It's very normal for many buses to make grinding sounds with the driving axle, but this one was grinding and making intense vibrations that suggest that something was EXTREMELY wrong with the axle.
The gears were failing to engage all the time, and you guys like the ZF yowling right? Maybe you would love this bus. The cat-calls indicate gear-switch, and this one was whining, screaming, howling all the time as the gearbox hunted all the gears and then failed to engage ANY of them.
I honestly feared for my life as the bus went up a hill and friggin lost its gear and started slowing all the way to a crawl before the SL who was desperately feathering his throttle to coax the bus to move on managed to engage 2nd.
I have sat in lorries with problematic gearboxes that went from 60 to -10 and this was a repeat of a nightmare. I had enough and alighted at Yishun to take the video posted above. I am sorry that my video cut off half-way due to lack of memory, but listen at the end. First the bus failed to engage 1st. Then the bus failed to engage 2nd and the RPM sky-rocketed.
And what was more amazing, the SL did not declare break-down! By comparison, SBST BCs usually declare break-down because this is potentially dangerous.
P.S: To add insult to injury, I pressed the bell, and it did not work. I pressed another bell and it didnt work either. smlj.....luckily it was Yishun Int and many people needed to get down anyway.
Kinda reminded me of my experience with bells on the OC500, except I was at the front, and there was NONE. I got fed up and told the nice SL that I wanted to get down at the next stop instead.
Even if SMRT stop using bendies, the situation will be the same. SLs will still anyhow park their buses.
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The situation has always been there.
But clearly made worse, a lot worse by bendies.
Just 2 bendies in front, and a 168 DD caused my bus to be stuck within the bowels of the interchange.
And in WRI, reversing out of the saw-tooth berths to leave upon embarking passengers is the norm there because bendies in the next berth frequently block the bus behind from leaving. Ultimately, bendies and DDs also have only 1 entrance, and it takes forever to load the crowd taking 900, to cite one popular service. It gets more complicated when 2 bendies arrive, as is common, for a single berth. Common practice is for the 2nd bendy to leave a gap to allow bus from the preceding berth to leave, but that causes blockage for the main road. How then?
I never said that bendies are terrible, but the infrastructure does not support such buses and it really is in the interest of the public to phase them out, as SBS saw back then.
I haven't seen any further acommodation for bendies and I can safely say that there won't be any more bendies.
Generally, LTA's plans do not materialise overnight. The hub-spoke system for example, was already the aim for many years and even decades, before it was further ratified one more step, with the distance-based fare. These can in fact, be all be traced back to the building of towns, revolving around MRT and bus interchanges, and best exemplified in vertical integration, with the WRI arrangement.
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Originally posted by SBS2601D:
Do you know what is the Hatfield accident?
Do you know "Network Rail"?
If you delve deep into the inquiries and literature review, which I'm not sure you have full access to, then you'll see that the pattern of operation leading up to that accident followed pretty much the same moral path.
BUT
Network Rail was to run into more problems such as its ambiguous position as public/private company....suggesting that the "third way" for public transport, between nationalisation and privatisation, might be less viable. Viabilitiy on the other hand, can be tweaked somewhat by having the proper institutions. That will take a bit of time.
And, yes, I don't like your attitude, you daft SMRT fan-boy.
You will be able to remember the death-defying MRT collision in Singapore at Clementi eh?
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Sad Story
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Originally posted by TIB1257C:
You will be able to remember the death-defying MRT collision in Singapore at Clementi eh?
Your point being accidents are unavoidable and therefore its ok to use cable-tie to secure the third rail?
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Originally posted by SBS2601D:
Your point being accidents are unavoidable and therefore its ok to use cable-tie to secure the third rail?
MRT Collision at Clementi...
Not MRT Blackout at Orchard/Dhoby Ghaut...
IIRC is was in 1990s...
150++ people injured...
But no more collisions happened ever since then.
Caused by oil spill by the maintenance train which had it's oil leaked onto the track.
A train got delayed in the station and another train go towards the station...
Then the train handbreaked but it is useless as the oil reduced the friction...
Then SMRT came up with a rule that trains only can depart when the train at the station after must have left and must check for oil on MRT tracks. -
Please read between my lines.
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Originally posted by SBS2601D:
Please read between my lines.
Preventing accidents are better than avoiding them...
Still, MRT-wise, SBS seems to do a better job than SMRT. -
Originally posted by TIB1257C:
Preventing accidents are better than avoiding them...
Still, MRT-wise, SBS seems to do a better job than SMRT.Then why your username is TIB1257C?
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Originally posted by TIB1218R:
Then why your username is TIB1257C?
His username is just to show his support for SMRT, that's what he says.
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alighting bay become parking lot, boarding bay become alighting bay...
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Originally posted by sbst275:
alighting bay become parking lot, boarding bay become alighting bay…
WRI's sawtooth berths are commonly described as ''Dynamic Platforms'' which can switch between arriving and departure booths...
Got 1 time I waiting for 858, got one MAN arrive there with 858 displayed on the EDS. Then everyone want to board but the BC alighted instead... Some people chiong in... That time alot people queueing for 858. He then got back in the bus and asked people out and drove it away immediately... Heng I never board e bus -
Question 1:What will you do if SMRT buys more bendys
? Question 2:What will you do if all the bendys were to deregister
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Originally posted by SMB 28 G:
Question 1:What will you do if SMRT buys more bendys
? Question 2:What will you do if all the bendys were to deregister
?Q1.I'll kill myself
Q2.It'll be the happiest day of my life.
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Originally posted by TIB 501 D:
His username is just to show his support for SMRT, that's what he says. I want TIBS back!!
U sure bo
?Now the soceity become WAB liao
You don't talk so big la bendy-fan boy
The account also not yours.
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Originally posted by SBS 6078 M:
U sure bo
?Now the soceity become WAB liao
You don't talk so big la bendy-fan boy
The account also not yours.
I am damn sure. He even mentioned it himself in some other topic.
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TIB873E on 300 -
Originally posted by TIB1218R:
TIB873E on 300There's one rigid 0405 on 61 with special EDS(numbers on the right) and a 970 OC500LE with another special EDS(numbers on the left). What regos and what kind of EDS do they have?
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Originally posted by TIB 501 D:
There's one rigid 0405 on 61 with special EDS(numbers on the right) and a 970 OC500LE with another special EDS(numbers on the left). What regos and what kind of EDS do they have?
They have different EDS from the others.
Meaning the type of buses that bus is the only type of his with that EDS.
Just like SMB91Y
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Imagine Singapore with bi-articulated buses
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TIB1218R and SMB228X -
Originally posted by TIB1218R:
TIB1218R and SMB228XAww
Haha lolIf 228X likes Citaros so much,then why his user name the rego of a Man?
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Originally posted by SMB 28 G:
Aww
Haha lolIf 228X likes Citaros so much,then why his user name the rego of a Man?
He claimed that someone took SMB136C alr
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Originally posted by TIB 501 D:
He claimed that someone took SMB136C alr
.No.
The truth is,
In BIS's webpage, BIS uploaded [ or was it someone else ] a picture in the interior of SMB228X showing a 55's VSO rear with one exhaust vent.
Then someone comment that SMB228X is a good rego, then BIS agree.
Then here comes the clone...