New Bus Services Announced by LTA/PTOs (Part 3)

• TIB987K

  14 Sep 17, 14:00

  Update to:

  Based on:
  Bus Services Continue to Improve Since Transition to BCM
  goo.gl/3vbJFK

  Ang Mo Kio - 860, 71
  Bedok - New service by this year / Trunk?
  Bishan - 71
  Bukit Batok - 944
  Bukit Panjang - 973
  Hougang - 329
  Punggol - 381
  Sembawang - 883
  Sengkang - 374
  Tampines - 127, 129
  Toa Payoh - 129
  Tuas - 247, 248
  Whampoa - 129
  Yishun - 807

• gekpohboy

  14 Sep 17, 14:02

  381 not BSEP.
• TIB 585L

  14 Sep 17, 14:13

  973 is redundant to the max. Fetch air only most of the time, waste manpower. Shld have extended to loop at Ng Teng Fong
• AntiDennisLance

  14 Sep 17, 14:21

  Originally posted by SMB145B:

  860A becomes 807A

  no service to Yishun St 44?

  with the extension of 860, DD makes more sense.

  More likely some or most of the 860 DD's will move over to 807.  The extended portion of 860 does not look like it will have high loadings until Springleaf MRT opens.  Much of the extension is already covered by 138 and 169, unless most of the people working at Tagore stays in Yishun.

• lemon1974

  14 Sep 17, 14:23

  Originally posted by AntiDennisLance:

  What a joke. Why 807 dupe 95% of the pre-extension 860. And feeder 807 even longer route than the pre-extension 860 which was supposed to be a trunk. And dupe much of the 802 sector of 812.

  Can scrap 804 already.

  i think when SBST take over, they gonna to amend /cut short 860... can just follow 169 route instead..   now let pax familiar with 807 first..

• AntiDennisLance

  14 Sep 17, 14:26

  Originally posted by lemon1974:

  i think when SBST take over, they gonna to amend /cut short 860... can just follow 169 route instead..   now let pax familiar with 807 first..

  If liddat they might as well just extend 860 to become the 807 now and intro a new more direct service to Springleaf-Tagore-YCK instead

• carbikebus

  14 Sep 17, 14:36

  I used to email LTA about extending 860 to AMK Int via Springleaf/AMK Ave 5 but it turn out to be YCK Int instead.

• dupdup77

  14 Sep 17, 14:42

  All, service 860 extension is a good one. It gives residents along Ang mo kio ave 5 much needed added convenience. Currently, only few services ply there. Cheers. Thanks.

• gekpohboy

  14 Sep 17, 14:46

  Originally posted by gekpohboy:

  807 is the 77th new bus service introduced under the Bus Service Enhancement Programme. The final 3 bus services should be 71, 68 and one more to be announced.

  68 probably not BSEP, cuz already under the Loyang bus package.

  78th probably at Bedok, cuz Downtown Line opening on 21 October, and by next week we should know the bus service - if it is related to the opening of Downtown Line stage 3.

  79th probably 71, cuz already made known, just haven't announced only.

  Whereas for the 80th bus service, it's anyone's guess.

• autumncs

  14 Sep 17, 14:48

  Originally posted by gekpohboy:

  807 is the 77th new bus service introduced under the Bus Service Enhancement Programme. The final 3 bus services should be 71, 68 and one more to be announced.

  The next 3 services are probably 68, 71 and 137... (I remember someone mentioning 137 previously.) We will see what happens when DTL3 opens next month.

  Hopefully, after 80 new routes under BSEP, LTA will continue to introduce new routes...

• AntiDennisLance

  14 Sep 17, 14:50

  Originally posted by dupdup77:

  All, service 860 extension is a good one. It gives residents along Ang mo kio ave 5 much needed added convenience. Currently, only few services ply there. Cheers. Thanks.

  Should be useful for them to get to YCK Int. I suppose they would also like to visit Wisteria Mall, Junction 9 and Yishun Hawker Centre on a regular basis, and have both their lunch and dinner at those places everyday.

• carbikebus

  14 Sep 17, 14:53

  Originally posted by gekpohboy:

  68 probably not BSEP, cuz already under the Loyang bus package.

  78th probably at Bedok, cuz Downtown Line opening on 21 October, and by next week we should know the bus service - if it is related to the opening of Downtown Line stage 3.

  79th probably 71, cuz already made known, just haven't announced only.

  Whereas for the 80th bus service, it's anyone's guess.

  Yes,68 is already under Loyang.Maybe Tampines Concourse new feeder svc..Although I'm hoping a new svc from Changi Biz Park to cover 48 route along Bedok North Depot to loop somewhere in Bedok North St 3.48 can terminate at Biz Park.

• carbikebus

  14 Sep 17, 14:54

  Originally posted by TIB987K:

  Update to:

  Based on:
  Bus Services Continue to Improve Since Transition to BCM
  goo.gl/3vbJFK

  Ang Mo Kio - 860, 71
  Bedok - New service by this year / Trunk?
  Bishan - 71
  Bukit Batok - 944
  Bukit Panjang - 973
  Hougang - 329
  Punggol - 381
  Sembawang - 883
  Sengkang - 374
  Tampines - 127, 129
  Toa Payoh - 129
  Tuas - 247, 248
  Whampoa - 129
  Yishun - 807

  Tampines might be new svc or the Concourse feeder

• AJQZC

  14 Sep 17, 15:02

  Originally posted by AntiDennisLance:

  What a joke. Why 807 dupe 95% of the pre-extension 860. And feeder 807 even longer route than the pre-extension 860 which was supposed to be a trunk. And dupe much of the 802 sector of 812.

  Can scrap 804 already.

  Don't see the point of 807, not unless LTA has provisions for it to be amended to Yishun Ave 6 or 8 in the future.

  Agree that 804 is now obsolete.

• carbikebus

  14 Sep 17, 15:04

  Originally posted by AJQZC:

  Don't see the point of 807, not unless LTA has provisions for it to be amended to Yishun Ave 6 or 8 in the future.

  Agree that 804 is now obsolete.

  Just to make numbers.

• autumncs

  14 Sep 17, 15:06

  Originally posted by TIB987K:

  Update to:

  Based on:
  Bus Services Continue to Improve Since Transition to BCM
  goo.gl/3vbJFK

  Ang Mo Kio - 860, 71
  Bedok - New service by this year / Trunk?
  Bishan - 71
  Bukit Batok - 944
  Bukit Panjang - 973
  Hougang - 329
  Punggol - 381
  Sembawang - 883
  Sengkang - 374
  Tampines - 127, 129
  Toa Payoh - 129
  Tuas - 247, 248
  Whampoa - 129
  Yishun - 807

  What about 110 in Sengkang?

• AJQZC

  14 Sep 17, 15:09

  Originally posted by autumncs:

  What about 110 in Sengkang?

  110 is not part of BSEP.

• gekpohboy

  14 Sep 17, 15:12

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• autumncs

  14 Sep 17, 15:17

  Originally posted by carbikebus:

  Yes,68 is already under Loyang.Maybe Tampines Concourse new feeder svc..Although I'm hoping a new svc from Changi Biz Park to cover 48 route along Bedok North Depot to loop somewhere in Bedok North St 3.48 can terminate at Biz Park.

  Yeah... The area around Bedok North Rd / Ave 1 / St 3 / Ave 2 should have a new trunk service. The last time when there was a new service in that area was svc 45 back in 2006. Hopefully there's a new service when DTL3 opens.

  I'm also hoping a new svc would replace 17A and continue further east (e.g. Changi Biz Park). I find it ironic that 17A was awarded to Go Ahead but it continues to terminate at SBST-owned Bedok North Depot. Bedok North Ave 4 also hasn't seen new services for a very long time.

   

• TIB987K

  14 Sep 17, 15:30

  Originally posted by gekpohboy:

  381 not BSEP.

  

• carbikebus

  14 Sep 17, 15:30

  Originally posted by autumncs:

  What about 110 in Sengkang?

  110 is already under Hougang-Sengkang package..

• carbikebus

  14 Sep 17, 15:33

  Originally posted by autumncs:

  Yeah... The area around Bedok North Rd / Ave 1 / St 3 / Ave 2 should have a new trunk service. The last time when there was a new service in that area was svc 45 back in 2006. Hopefully there's a new service when DTL3 opens.

  I'm also hoping a new svc would replace 17A and continue further east (e.g. Changi Biz Park). I find it ironic that 17A was awarded to Go Ahead but it continues to terminate at SBST-owned Bedok North Depot. Bedok North Ave 4 also hasn't seen new services for a very long time.

   

  How about svc 44:Changi Biz Park via Bedok North Ave 4 then loop around somewhere..Can cover 48 deleted sectors and supplement 17.Yes 17 should goes to SBST while Go Ahead takes either 5 or 29.

• gekpohboy

  14 Sep 17, 15:34

  Originally posted by TIB987K:

  

  Okay. If that's the case, 68 and the Bedok service are probably the next BSEP bus services, to be launched in conjunction with the opening of Downtown Line stage 3.

  They would probably be the 78th and 79th new bus service, whereas 71 would probably be the 80th and final new bus service.

• carbikebus

  14 Sep 17, 15:36

  No need to think about 80th or what,They can anytime implement new service or withdrawn as they like.Jurong west supposely to have 26 but left 25 due to 256 withdrawal 

• gekpohboy

  14 Sep 17, 15:42

  Originally posted by carbikebus:

  No need to think about 80th or what,They can anytime implement new service or withdrawn as they like.Jurong west supposely to have 26 but left 25 due to 256 withdrawal 

  If you notice, the new bus services launched by operators are all short working trips, complementing an existing bus service. Eg. 110 complements 858, 170A complements 170, and 912A/B complements 912.

  Moving on, I would expect more complementary bus services to be launched to complement existing bus services.