Note: This topic does not just discuss the
planning of new trunk services or any potential rationalization
exercises in the future, but also the overall future of trunk
services.
While the opening of the second stage of the Downtown Line today
provides greater convenience for residents of the Northwest
corridor, as well as students of the many notable schools along the
Bukit Timah corridor, it also spells the potential dip in passenger
demands of many bus services (notably 67, 170 & 171) that
currently duplicate the line.
With even more MRT lines such as the Thomson-East Coast, Cross
Island and Jurong Region Lines and extensions of existing MRT lines
coming up by 2030 (this is not old news I know), what can/should be
expected of the future of trunk services in Singapore? Will we
still need trunk buses to get around, or just feed into the MRT
like every other person is doing? Will we still need high capacity
double-deck or articulated buses which will potentially ferry
lesser and lesser passengers such that a single-deck bus is
probably sufficient by then. Even if trunk services were to
continue, are we still able to carve out bus services that are able
to counter the seemingly decreasing loopholes of the MRT
system?
Feel free to kick off the discussion. If anyone feels that this
thread is redundant or other threads are able to serve the same
purpose, I apologize and will not stop the locking of this
thread.
Hi mr SBS7557R, good. Firstly, no more introduction of super
long bus routes which will be covered by mrt mainly. Secondly,
trunk routes will get shorter and will provide more direct type
especially those last mile routes. Cheers. Thanks.