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SINGAPORE: The Land Transport Authority (LTA) said
SBS Transit and SMRT have made improvements to 17 bus services
between April and June this year.
The improvements include deploying higher capacity buses or adding
more bus trips along sectors that have experienced consistent heavy
ridership.
LTA was releasing the results of its quarterly review of public bus
services.
SBS Transit has added more bus trips to six bus services 3, 81, 98,
222, 225 and 315 while four higher-capacity double-deck buses have
been deployed on services 37 and 246.
The operator has also added six single-deck buses on services 39,
163, 200, 235 and 240.
SMRT had identified four heavily-utilised services for
improvement.
On Service 806, more bus trips and three high-capacity bendy buses
have been added during weekday peak periods and on weekends.
SMRT has also deployed another bus on Express Bus Service 971E,
which will add a trip to the current two that are run during
weekday morning peak hours.
Daily late night bus trips have also been added to Service 189A
from June 12, 2011 to provide greater connectivity for Bukit Batok
residents heading home from Bukit Batok MRT Station.
In addition, SMRT has also added more bus trips and deployed one
more bus on Service 75 from June 26, 2011.
LTA said since the first quarterly review of bus services in June
last year, the operators have already added 233 bus trips and
improved 53 services.
This round of improvements will add 187 more bus trips.
Apart from improving services during peak hours, the operators have
also improved four bus services during off-peak hours this
round.
LTA said it will continue to work closely with the operators to
improve bus services.
