Craefurd St ter
its orginins... i think
Lets assume that tay Koh yat Chinese Bus company began in er
1937 (lol), now they need to compete in city right? just so happen
they have a depot further down along this road called beach Rd,
facing the sea.
tay Koh yat Seaside bus depot (charming..)
anyhow they set up one base of operations at Crawfurd St area
then known as Hoi how Rd.
And mostly they (Tay Koh yat) cater to the army croowd in the
north . so they ran services to Sembawang naval base and air filed
etc .
by the 1950s, the Singapore Mallacca Express also called ard the
area,. thus a bus interchange was formed. No sure if there are any
other bus co use the same terminus areas.
Later in 1969 or 1970, tay Koh yat was merged with some other co
to form UBC.
the new bus numbering system was use. Thus came the UBC 160 and 161
to call at Crawfurd st. TPY was new so came ??? 150. a new svc 195
was introduced as orchard rd and town area needed more links to the
West (beiong that kampong Bahru Bus co was being dumb and din into
any svc that ran like 195 so that the municipal authorities had to
interfere with a new route after the rationalisation into 3 bus
co)
195 essentially served the Mallaca exp servixes and the UBC svcs
to YMCA, havelock, Delta and telok blanagh. The service prob ended
at Delta bus ter (gagek berat dunno what...) (along with 65,
and 196)
Side tracking UBC 160 became SBS 160. in 1983 i guess became TIB
160. then SMRT 980. 161 which ran paraell to 160 was switftly
withdrawn by mid 1980s.
150 too was found useless.
lets concetrate on the 195
i have no idea on this 195. assuming we begin off from the 195 i
mentioned above, it was invovled in a feeder service integration.
namely svc 203 Bouna Vista - margaret dr (via commonwelath dr
north)
this integration meant that 195 had a new roadisde ter at
commonwelath dr north having been extended thru depot rd. ( assume
svc 63 then serving depot rd is not invovled in this)
at the other end it is likely that South Canal is chosen as the
new ending terminus.
this i assume to be 1989,.
end of crawfurd st ter story.
Crawford St terminal continued to serve as a bus terminal for Tibs
services 160 and 181 until late 1998 when it was officially closed
down due to major road upgrading along Beach Road.
