hi all
I was privillaged enough to visit Soon lee depot recently. At the
lobby , i found old pix of Jurong bus park. this inspired my past
memeories trip back in time for this post.
JURONG BUS PARK.
Before Soon lee bus park, there was a Jurong bus depot. It was in
charge of two bus park faciltiies. Jurong Bus depot and Penjuru
Jurong bus park. Jurong Depot had full depot faciltiies and was
situated next to the old Jurong bus interchange. for those who
still remember where Jurong Bus Int and the depot was, will
acknowledged that it must had been easy to deploy buses from the
depot to the interchange since they were right next door to each
other. note that a petrol stn that was probbabaly for buses to use
still stands today but ebing used by Shell.
A smaller bus park was built at Penjuru rd. i do believe it was
only a bus park n had no workshop and depot facilities. Service 143
used to terminate at this bus park. The terminus was referred to as
teban gardens Bus terminal. I hope someone can clear up if the bus
went into the depot or had a roadside bus terminus facilites in
this Penjuru area. (surhirman..=).)
Jurong Depot besides providing buses for the Jurong Ind services
also had serve for fleets of bus services calling at Clemtni
int, kent ridege ter or Bouna Vista under its control. Presumbly,
buses from the penjuru bus park (nearer to Clementi, kent ridge and
Bouna Vista ter) were despacthed out.
documents (as in busway magazines in NUS lib) show that
service 92 : Clementi - Paya lebar airport was operated by
Jurong. Svc 146 with its LO2x yeah? JR confirmed. I've always
wondered how 146 gets lo2x...ah hah.
Service 33 (kent Ridge) also JR. Service 200 (kent
ridge) also JR.< For those who wish to know a further
significance with regards to today of this fact may PM me, it
is because of JRDEP operating the west side services ard the NUS
area that till today....certainly a glad reminder of the past for
myself >
note that 92 33 and 200 all got merc OF1417s hawke which most of
us will gladly agree are JRDEp type buses. 176 Clemtni - World
trade Centre were one of the first services to use the Merc OF1417
of JRDEP. also bus 78: Clementi - Queensway Circus (Queensway
Shopping centre)) was the first service to use Merc OF1417s. i will
make a guess. JRDEP . Always wonder why u used to see merc OF1417
on 209? JRDEP buses. proof? busway i saw 209 under JR.
even bus 188 whcih runs from ulu pandan terminus then had JRDEp
merc but were NZMB mercs.
it is believed that 95 and 96 were even under JR in 2000.
I would like to point out an interesting JRDEP residents. Bus
Svc M1 Science park - Bouna Vista MRT in 2000. I think when the
service became 92, it was still under JR. it is proven in busway
that M1 was under JRDEP. Further proof comes in the form of the
Dennis Darts on M1 having been put on service with bus 182 which u
all know is a JRDEP service for sure. for those who have seen
the darts on 182, u may rest assure darts were once in
JRDEP..hahah
Eventually i guess the bus fleets got too big for JRDEP and
penjuru bus park to handle. So came the need for mega big bus
depot. this is Soon lee Depot of today.
but wait, there is more, where did jurong Depot come from then? it
is beleived by the article writer that jurong Depot when new new
was a merger of Alexandra bus Depot and Woodlands Bus depot. but i
cant be sure. of course folks will recall that Alexandra Depot
(probably remants of the Hock lee bus Depot then) and Woodlands bus
depot are the true orginal SBS new new depots when SBS started
operations as SBS 1978 pte ltd.
ZYX
am i that old?
Errata: please read article with Penjuru bus park as (Penjuru)
Jurong bus depot. and jurong bus Depot to be changed to Jurong bus
park. hey one's memories do fade with time and so uh get forgetful
and type mistakes. so its Jurong bus park next to bus int and
Jurong bus Depot in teban gardens there.
Wow.. by the way u r there for..? Audit check? Btw, if I am nt
wrong there is a few lanes of the petrol kiosk beside the
current Shell station.
