de. (2013, December 27). Three new City Direct bus services
start in January 2014. Channel NewsAsia. Retrieved from
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/
SINGAPORE: Three new City Direct bus services from the
heartlands to the Central Business District (CBD) will begin
operations from January 2014.
Service 652 from Ang Mo Kio to the CBD will
begin on 6 January 2014. On weekday mornings, it will ply Upper
Thomson Road, Yio Chu Kang Road, Ang Mo Kio Avenues 3, 4, and 10
before taking the Central Expressway to the CBD, including Bras
Basah Road and Shenton Way.
On weekday evenings, the service will run from Robinson Road
back to Ang Mo Kio.
Service 653 will start its operation from Bukit
Batok/Hillview from 13 January 2014. It will ply Hume Avenue,
Hillview Avenue, Bukit Batok East Avenue 2 and Bukit Batok East
Avenue 3 before heading towards Robinson Road and Marina Boulevard
via the Pan-Island Expressway and the Ayer Rajah Expressway. In the
evenings, the service will head back to Bukit Batok/Hillview.
Service 654 will start from 20 January 2014
from Sengkang. It will ply Anchorvale Street, Compassvale Street
and Rivervale Drive before heading towards Central Boulevard and
Shenton Way via the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway and East Coast
Parkway. In the evenings, the service will bring commuters back to
Sengkang.
Three other services will begin operations in February 2014 and
will cover West Coast, Sembawang and Jurong East. Details will be
announced closer to the implementation dates.
- CNA/de
David Ee. (2013, December 27). Six new City Direct bus services
to start from January and February. The Straits Times.
Retrieved from http://www.straitstimes.com/
Six new City Direct bus services from the heartlands to the Central
Business District will begin from January and February next
year.
City Service 652, which starts on Jan 6, will ply
Upper Thomson Road, Yio Chu Kang Road, Ang Mo Kio Ave 4, Ave 3 and
Ave 10, before taking the Central Expressway (CTE) downtown.
Meanwhile, from Jan 13, City Service 653 will
serve Hume Avenue, Hillview Avenue, Bukit Batok East Ave 2 and East
Ave 3 before taking the Pan Island Expressway (PIE) and Ayer Rajah
Expressway (AYE).
The route for City Service 654, which starts on
Jan 20, will include Anchorvale Street, Compassvale Street and
Rivervale Drive before taking the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway
(KPE) and East Coast Parkway (ECP) to the city. The other three
routes serving West Coast, Sembawang and Jurong East will commence
in February. More details on these three routes will be announced
later, said a Land Transport Authority spokesman on Friday.
The City Direct bus services are run by private bus operators to
give heartland commuters an extra option in and out of the city. A
total of nine will be rolled out. For a start, the new bus services
will make two one-way trips to the city on weekday mornings and two
one-way return trips in the evenings. More trips may be added
depending on demand, said the spokesman.
(2013, December 27). Six New City Direct Bus Services Starting
From January 2014. Land Transport Authority of Singapore.
Retrieved from http://app.lta.gov.sg/
In future, in 2014, when there is news regarding City Direct bus services (new
service launches or more trips added), please post them here in
this topic. 
If you have any complains
about City Direct
bus services, do post them
here to share with everyone. Maybe other people also have the same
encounter and can help you cope with your
encounter.
If you feel that the
City Direct buses
are starting to become more
packed and more trips should be added, you can write it here for
everyone to know. Speaking
of which, I am still waiting for Comfort Delgro to add more trips
to service 651.
When everything related
to City
Direct bus services is posted to this one topic, we may have more
things to discuss and in return, we may be able to come up with
good (better) suggestions, ideas, etcetera which we can suggest to
the relevant operators/authority for
consideration. 
Meanwhile, if you would like to
suggest new City Direct bus routes, I think a more suitable topic
for this would be the [Route Suggestions]
series.
