How svc 980 came about.
I think by now u know i really liked this Tay Koh yat Bus
company,
Thsi concerned tay koh yat very first services. the british
naval base was opened in 1933 in the Sembawang area as a precaution
measure to WW2.
as a result new road was built called sembawang rd connecting to
the then existing cross island going nroth rd called upp thomson
rd. a Bus service provider was needed. tay Koph yat say "me
me me me"
tay Koh yat gave services 1 was a feeder service. which i
not care.
the base was so big, many areas of exit/entry are defined.
In town a bus depot was set up along Beach rd beside the sea
9chamring). the bus depot further down was a bus terminus called
Hoi haw Rd Bus terminus. in later years it is called Crawfurd
St.
TKY Svcs2 , 3 and 5 were the service that ran along
SBW rd, Upp Thomon rd, thomson rd, bt timah rd and down to beach
rd.
3 and 5 are belvied to serve from the West end of the base, that
leaves svc 2 presumbly serving from the eastern side, running along
inside the base, 9today the road which ran is similair to Admialryt
rd).
so we concentrate on service 2.
later service 2 and many other tay koh yat services were
invovled in the great 1969s numbering excercise and bus company
merger thing.
tay koh yat became part of UBC.
and UBC svc 160 was born doing TKY svc 2.
musch later UBC 160 became SBS 160. as part fo the plan to unify
the all bus companys to one entity came to be realsied in 1971)
SBS 160 went on to eb trasnferred to a new entity bus company
called TIBS.
it became TIb160 in 1983.
much later SMRTbus came about and the then 160 was already
became svc 980 as a renumebr excercise.
So today when u take 980, remember its past as TKY svc 2, how
the naval base seamen take the svc to town and why the service runs
along the roads ....and why Crawfurd St terminal had such a
significance.
ZYX