With regards to 185, I know how it feels to wait for the bus in
the morning. I used to rely on bus 185 to get to school, from
Jurong West Avenue 5.
185 frequency was quite long. This was especially when my school
was at Jurong West Street 25 and only 185 goes there, while the
other schools' students had both 99 and 185, and also 502. This is
why I suggested that if we merge 49 and 258, the merged route
should run along Jurong West Avenue 3, Street 23/22, because the
bus connection between avenue 3 and the avenue 5/1 is quite weak,
but that BusAnalayzer kept insisting that it ply Avenue 4. -.=
I ever wrote an email to SBS Transit to consider shortening 185
to Jurong East Bus Interchange so that the frequency can be higher,
but their reply was that the route planning is now centrally done
by the LTA. Soon after that email, SBS brought forward the first
trip of 185.
The demand on bus 185 during weekday morning from 6:30am to
around 7am is consistently high due to the large number of students
using it to get to school. I do not know about the frequency now.
If it is low (around fifteen minutes) , I feel that bus 185
deserves better frequency. Otherwise, a weekday short-working trip
of 185 between Soon Lee Depot and Jurong West Avenue 3 would be
greatly appreciated. :)
You got it WRONG. I said it plies ave 5, Jalan Bahar and ave
2.
And if you shorten to Jurong East Interchange, do you know how
much inconvenience you will cause people? There is 99 to Jurong
East. 185 is express to Clementi/Buona Vista.
185 is doing fine. It has got fleet adds + many SD->DD
upgrades in recent past.