Service 248 [SLBP, non-BSEP service]
Boon Lay Interchange
Jalan Boon Lay
Chin Bee Drive
Corporation Road
Kang Ching Road
Yuan Ching Road
Taman Jurong Terminal
Corporation Road
Yung Ho Road
Yuan Ching Road
Kang Ching Road
Corporation Road
Chin Bee Drive
Jalan Boon Lay
Boon Lay Interchange
I know, pretty pointless and weird service, but there's a whole
stretch of road along Chin Bee Drive not served by buses that's not
too long.
Actually the factories don’t
need to be inter-connected with one another via Public bus, right?
Even if want to collaborate, have partnership, share resources,
joint project, etcetera. , I’m sure they have their own private
vehicle to go to each other’s factory. I believe the Public buses’
role in Industrial areas is (solely) to ferry people to their
workplace from nearby bus interchange(s) and if possible, from
their homes. Otherwise, the other role is to ferry people to the
amenities in the Industrial area, such as food court, retail
outlets, etc.
Taking reference from the bus
stop at Pioneer MRT Station, which can only accommodate 1 more bus
service, it can be concluded that a normal bus stop is designed to
accommodate up to 5 bus services. Including 98M, there are already
5 bus services running along Corporation Drive – full already.
Meanwhile, Corporation Road and Yuan Ching Road have only 1 bus
service running on the majority of them.
Maybe an alternative would be
to re-route bus route 246 to go further into Chin Bee Drive, and
ply along Third Chin Bee Road and Chin Bee Avenue, and then return
to its original route at Quality Road. This would skip that 1 pair
of bus stop at Quality Road but there is bus route 79 to make up
the loss for residents at South Taman Jurong.
Actually, regarding Taman Jurong, I ever had a thought that
perhaps bus route 240 should be split up as it might be a bit too
long (15.4km: even longer than bus routes 243G and 243W combined)
and does not really serve
as a feeder service for Residents of Taman Jurong. There
isn’t really a feeder bus service to Taman Jurong from Boon Lay Bus
Interchange. The shortest/fastest bus connection to Boon Lay Bus
Interchange available at Taman Jurong would perhaps be service 30,
154 and 178 – all of which use Boon Lay Way to go to Boon Lay Bus
Interchange.
Incorporating a bit of your suggestion, I would
propose a new Feeder bus
route to Taman Jurong from Boon Lay Bus Interchange.
Total distance: 7.88km (7.9km)
(1km shorter than Jurong East Feeder service
334[8.9km].)
Meanwhile, bus route 240 can
be shortened and re-routed to serve only the Boon Lay
sub-zone.
Total Distance:
4.06km
Since bus route 246 is almost
identical to bus route 240, bus route 246 can easily be an
alternative bus route to make up the loss of bus connection to/from
Boon Lay subzone if bus route 240 is shortened and no longer
serving Taman Jurong, by simply re-routing 246 to ply Kang Ching
Road, instead of Tah Ching Road (This reminds me of the
previous route of service 242, which duplicates most of service 99
in Jurong West Extension).
