In April 2014,
as part of the initiative
to increase bus capacity on longer routes and bring greater comfort to
the commuter’s bus journey experience, SMRT confirmed orders
for over 570 buses. Orders are confirmed for 332 MAN 12-metre
buses, 40
MAN articulated buses, and for the first time, a total of 201 ADL
Double Deckers.
June 2014 saw the arrival of the first ADL Enviro500NG and I am
grateful to Mark Chua of Buses(IN)gapore for providing the above
photographs and following report.
"SMRT Buses' Alexander Dennis Enviro 500
MMC will be registered in the 5000 series registration, and
one unit, believed to be the one in the press release &
assembled in UK was registered as SMB5002Y. It was doing a driver
familiarisation today at Woodlands New Town and my,
it is indeed a beautiful vehicle with that livery on
it. It has a Mobitec electronic signage and equipped with
Alcoa rims (without rimguards like the MAN buses), and standard
blue/purple & red combination for the Vogelsitze seating.
Not sure about the SMB5001A or others, though I hear there was
a third unit with silver livery only that was shipped
from Zhuhai to Singapore a few days back as well.
Also with regards to SMRT Buses's new MAN bendy buses
and NL323Fs, I have spotted a batch of
NL323F chassis at the MAN dealer, and heard that a MAN A24 chassis has
been delivered to ST Kinetics - all awaiting to go to
Gemilang for bodywork assembly."
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